Effie Gee

Writing a book about the origin, design, and development of the KX range. Including their societal and pop culture impact. Would you be interested in a quick 'interview' or chat or are you happy for me to quote your musings on the types I've found on your blog.

Hey Pete, saw one of your superb sketches of a British phonebox, the 1980s KX300 you used in your youth. Is the sketch for sale?

HARVARD SCIENTIST CALLS FOR SIX-WORD MESSAGE TO BE SENT TO 'NOT NATURAL' OBJECT HEADING TOWARDS EARTH

"Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."

Former school building behind, visible in original shot. Looks like flats now.

Probable site of the former cafe (on the corner with the grass), in 2008. 70s estate on the left, converted school in the middle distance, with more recent houses.

Looks like Mr Gower eventually sold up and moved on 😢. Earliest Google streets picture is 2008

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+BBC CLOCK COMPETITION+

We won't be making a run of these but this Bank Holiday weekend you can win a one-off 90s inspired BBC ident clock. Follow, Like & RP to enter. Winner announced Mon AM. We've also restocked our 'Radiophonic' inspired signs & other items.

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Very good, but Could Tori Amos not make it...?

Original KX100/300 glass and acrylic from 1984 and 1987, with late Olins era stickers from 1996ish.

1987 Phonecard acyrilic from KX100/300, 1987 Transoms from KX420s and a 1991 transom from a KX100/200/300

Spring time. And time to get the KX telephone kiosk goodies out of the shed.

If that episode was any more meta it would be reviewing me.

Very funny in places. A certain scene (you know the one) caused eldest to nope out hard. #DoctorWho

DAY 1397 #MyChallenge to the Govt @DCMS @Lisanandy @TNLUK

Today I’m competing in the GB Deaf Swimming Championships in Loughborough. If you haven’t attended a deaf competition before it can be scary & sometimes supporting others is just as important as the racing

#DeafSport #Inclusion #RoleModel

If Charlie Brooker had made Black Mirror in the 90s:

Turns out terraforming, driving new roads through suburbia and causing an alien attack in Simcity 2000 actually played out daily in a hellish inescapable mid western US town.

What a find!

Just in time for a meeting at work. Now I've got something to refer to, ta

Royal Mail's new corporate font on a 2025 leaflet on the left, a pale imitator of the 1975 Banks & Miles Typeface from an internal Post Office publication 1975

Hey, I've an idea. When something works just fine, and has done for decades without any complaints, you don't need to reinvent it, change it, or ruin it. 2025 vs 1975, below. @prestonbusstation.bsky.social @nse-latchmere.bsky.social @doublearrow64.bsky.social @cwunews.bsky.social #standbyyourpost

The crew of the 1983 spin-off, set on the Studio 7 Holo-deck of TVC

We should have a Royal State Visit for Zelenskyy instead, on a grander scale than anything the Queen put on from Trump last time round.

The only known photograph of the Illuminati in session.

Another detailed and thought provoking thread Nic. Thanks for taking the time to set these facts out publicly.

We do indeed. Especially now that it's a #doubleStacey situation.

Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower Conservation groups say University of Wolverhampton’s proposals overlook historical significance of art school Artists and conservation groups have decried the “irresponsible” plan to tear down a brutalist arts tower at a Midlands university, saying the…

Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower

Cover page of the proofing draft of the KX100 DataPack v4.0 update.

Please hold the line...

So, we're into the final days of proof reading and cross checking references, figure nos, pages, text and formatting. The #KX200, #KX300 and #KX400 docs are ready, and I'm halfway through the 34 page #KX100.

The revised and updated KX DataPacks will be released soon.

Oh, and as your profile mentions fonts, that era 'Telephone/Phonecard' was Humanist 521, alongside the Banks & Miles corporate ID

Ah you've got the student deluxe cone-version of the mk2 kx100 kiosk there. The sign on the back is from 1987-1991 and probably survived because it was hidden behind the back of a second kiosk, long since removed.

Blue skies and afternoon Sunburst over a local KX+ kiosk

Sunburst over the obelisk in Kubrick's 2001.

also sprach the kx+ kioska

Origins in 1985, Designed in 1996, Inspired by 2001, snapped in 2025
#KXplus KX+

I’ve decided I’m going to take over Lancashire, own it, level it, get all its inhabitants to relocate to Wales, Cumbria or wherever (not Yorkshire!), re-name it God’s Own Country, plant millions of acres of rhubarb and build a Betty’s Tea Room on every street corner.
That’ll sort the buggers!! 👍 👀

Campaign poster by Robin Ollington

Campaign poster by Peter Kennard

☎️ #OTD 40 years ago, the Thirties Society (forerunner of C20) launched their famous Phoneboxes Campaign, after the privatisation of BT threatened the classic red kiosks with removal and mass-extinction.

It remains the Society’s most successful and longest-running initiative.🧵

I really don’t need to make a third book of photos of phone boxes. Do I? #kx100 #photos #streetphotography

I have just checked on all the new ones I seem to have 'accidentally' photographed... I may well be on my way!!

Front cover of a short play about a modern suburban phonebox, with two young women standing in front of a KX100 in BT piper livery

Q: does researching the KX kiosk range include sourcing and indexing all material within which they appear visually, regardless of format?

A: yes, from my latest auction purchase it would appear so.

Last week I found evidence online that two rare KX400 series models may still be in situ in mid and north Wales.... Worth a trip? #notallkX400sareinthesoutheast