Relatively recently, its red phone boxes. but since the arrival of these things, fewer and fewer people have been using the public phones. so back in 2019, i reported on a programme to remove those iconic red boxes from london's streets. after all, it is only tourists that would miss them, right? the red phone box is synonymous with london. when they were first introduced in the 1920s, they gave many poorer londoners access to the phone for the very first time, and after countless appearances in films, tv shows and music videos, they became something of an icon both here and around the world. ...