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Britain's classic red telephone boxes get a makeover
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Britain's classic red telephone boxes get a makeover

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Village celebrates as BT reprieves its red phone box
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Village celebrates as BT reprieves its red phone box

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How Britain's iconic red phone boxes were inspired by the 19th century mausoleum...
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How Britain's iconic red phone boxes were inspired by the 19th century mausoleum...

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Sir John Soane: how tomb for architect's wife inspired the red telephone box
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Sir John Soane: how tomb for architect's wife inspired the red telephone box

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A Surrey Estate by the Designer of Britain’s Red Telephone Box
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A Surrey Estate by the Designer of Britain’s Red Telephone Box

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The extraordinary Elisabeth Scott
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The extraordinary Elisabeth Scott

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New passport designed to reflect “Creative United Kingdom”
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New passport designed to reflect “Creative United Kingdom”

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New UK passport design – in pictures
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New UK passport design – in pictures

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London's Phone Boxes Find Many Odd Uses
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London's Phone Boxes Find Many Odd Uses

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No Place to Hide: The Phone Box on Exhibition Road
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No Place to Hide: The Phone Box on Exhibition Road

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Red telephone boxes: 7 fantastic alternative uses for a British icon
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Red telephone boxes: 7 fantastic alternative uses for a British icon

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London's Iconic Red Phone Box Gets A Twenty-First Century
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London's Iconic Red Phone Box Gets A Twenty-First Century

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New Bodleian Library by Giles Gilbert Scott
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New Bodleian Library by Giles Gilbert Scott

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Design for GPO Telephone Kiosk 1924
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Design for GPO Telephone Kiosk 1924

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Two Cathedrals Rise in the city of Liverpool
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Two Cathedrals Rise in the city of Liverpool

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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott - The Palace of Westminster
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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott - The Palace of Westminster

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Hello I’m Robert. I am the great great grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott. I hope you enjoy browsing my blog. My sister and I manage our family business Watts & Co. (which was founded by George Gilbert Scott Junior). A special thank you to Dr. Ian Toplis for all his research found on this website.

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Facts about the Scott Family

  1. The Scott family have designed cathedrals on 5 continents including Africa, Asia, Europe,  North America & Australia.

  2. Two members of the Scott family feature on the new British passport. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and Elizabeth Scott.

  3. Sir George Gilbert Scott is buried in Westminster Abbey in a grave, which he would have been pleased to learn, unearthed some of the earliest Roman remains discovered in the Abbey

  4. The iconic red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who took inspiration from Sir John Soane’s wife mausoleum.

  5. Sir George Gilbert Scott at the age of just 33 built the tallest building in the world (At the time, St Nicholas’s Cathedral in Hamburg)

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