Stagecoach in Hull 18042 (MX53 FMG) in Hull - 2 May 2019 (P1010343)

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1835) – In 1902 Hull Corporation was granted a licence under the Telegraph Act to own and operate its own telephone system. A number of other municipalities were granted similar licences but gradually these were all taken over by Post Office Telephones/British Telecom. Hull’s system has remained independent of those and throughout its time the telephone kiosks were painted differently from the red otherwise found throughout Britain. Two of the traditional kiosks in their unique colour stand together outside the headquarters of KCOM in Carr Lane.

Passing by in the background is Stagecoach in Hull 18042 (MX53 FMG), a Transbus built President bodied Trident new in September 2003.