WWB - K6 Waddington Traditional Cache
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We have added this cache to part of our WWB series, taking you through Waddington and West Bradford area of the Ribble Valley. This cache is inspired by two other series, one by max shielded (big box, little box) and the other by dannyfrog (British Icon). A magnetic nano. Please take care, especially with young children, in the centre of Waddington, it can be busy and footpaths narrow.
**** The phone box is now being used to hold a defibrillator for the community. Therefore we have moved the cache to very close by, rather than in the box. The full beauty of K6 can still be admired.**** The red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar, and despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, red boxes can still be seen in many places and in current or former British colonies around the world. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot. In 1935 the K6 (kiosk number six) was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be used extensively outside of London, and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but, and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red. In 1952 the new Queen, Elizabeth II, decided to depart from the practice of using the purely symbolic 'Tudor Crown' as the symbol of her government, and instead use a representation of the actual crown generally used for British coronations, the St Edward's Crown. This new symbol therefore began to appear on the fascias of K6 kiosks.
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