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On 22 August 1902, Kingston upon Hull Corporation was granted a licence under the Telegraph Act 1899 to operate a municipal telephone system in the Kingston upon Hull area, opening its first telephone exchange on 28 November 1904 at the former Trippett Street Baths, Wincolmlee: Link In 1911 the Post Office took over the National Telephone Company's system, but Kingston upon Hull Corporation was permitted to retain its own service. Since then, it provided the only municipal telephone service in the country. In 1987, it became Kingston Communications (Hull) plc, still owned 100% by the Council. In 1999 the company was partially floated on the stock exchange. In 2007 its name was changed to KCOM Group plc. On 4 April 2016, the company moved all of its brand under a single KCOM brand name. KCOM was acquired by MEIF 6 Fibre Ltd, a business unit of Macquarie Group, in August 2019. Further information in Wikipedia: Link KCOM's history: Link

The K6 cast-iron telephone kiosk was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960) in 1935. Lacking the royal crown and cream-painted, unique to the former Hull Corporation Telephone Department.

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Giles Gilbert Scott: Link

Paragon Conservation Area is the commercial and retail core of Kingston upon Hull City Centre which both evolved and was planned during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its special interest is formed by the following elements:
1. Private developments outside the city's walls during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
2. Commercial and retail expansion of the city during the mid to late 19th century.
3. Council-led ‘town planning’ and private developments of the Edwardian era which laid out and developed Jameson Street, King Edward Street and Paragon Street.
4. Council-led ‘town planning’ of the 1930s which laid out Ferensway and created the vision for a ‘shopping boulevard’ in the Neo-Georgian style.
5. The post-War redevelopment of the city in the Neo-Georgian and modernist styles of architecture.
These different periods of development bring together a street pattern which is both organic and planned and an eclectic mixture of 19th and 20th century commercial architecture in a high density built urban environment.

Paragon Conservation Area Character Appraisal & Management Plan: Link