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Telephone box in Townplots, County Cork (20851080)

Telephone box
Telephone box in Townplots
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Freestanding steel framed telephone box, erected c.1950. Having domed roof and with bakelite lettered panels. Glazed side panels with raised moulding to sides (north-west and south-east). Panelled to rear (south-west) elevation. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door.
An increasingly rare example of a public phone box that was once common throughout the country. The design is the Kiosk 6, created by George Gilbert Scott, was in production from 1935 to 1960 and shows influences of the Art Deco period.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20851080

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Picture: The Boathouse Gallery
  • David Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, directmap.irish
  • Jonjobaker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Christopher Michel, Wikimedia Commons
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.echolive.ie
  • David Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Picture: Discover Ireland
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