Happy to hear from you, Paul. I’ll leave my mistake there to give your comment the heft it deserves. I am not as familiar with British phone boxes as you but happy to learn a little something. The brick phone would have been a hilarious alternative to the flip phone in that video. I liked that video at first but it gets old fast on repeat viewing…

Agree with you that the presence of the flip-phone doesn’t appear as anachronistic as perhaps the producers or writers hoped. I still see plenty of people with their bomb-proof Nokias and Motorola handsets here. Perhaps they could have used the classic Motorola “brick-phone” from the early 1980s?

One geeky point to note is that the phone box in the video is a K6, not a K2. They are visually very similar but the K2 was enormous and only seen around inner London. The K6 was introduced by the GPO in 1936 to coincide with King George V’s Silver Jubilee hence it’s often referred to as the “Jubilee Kiosk”. This was placed all over the United Kingdom and colonies as it was smaller, lighter, and very simple to assemble. Both the K6 and K2 were designed by architect Giles Gilbert-Scott. Many have been adopted as present owners BT retire under-used public telephones or removed, refurbished, and sold off altogether. You can buy yours today for a mere 2100 pounds sterling (!).

All the best,
Paul