Show us the last picture you took on your phone. (VW related or not!)

“Boxmoor 4840” here

Shame they don’t name the exchanges any more. Way back, folk would move heaven and earth (and possibly move house) just to have a Canford Cliffs phone number, rather than those bloody roughnecks in Bournemouth. Bournemouth !

 

I remember ours.
"Sandown 3811"

 

We used to dial numbers by lifting the receiver off hook and then tapping out the number to dial on the hook switch... You tapped it quickly five times then a gap to dial 5 , once for a 1 , nine times for a 9. Basically why 999 is the emergency number- trees shorting out overhead lines found it hard to do exactly 9 shorts on the wire with gaps three times on a row..

 

You posh lot, we never had a home phone when I was a kid
There was a phone box right outside our front garden, if anyone needed to get hold of us urgently they called our upwardly mobile neighbours who had all the fancy mod cons

 

I know that

Seriously, great to see another one getting some use

 

I think theres still a mustard coloured (or maybe mustard and brown) one in my parents loft. I know theres a couple somewhere in their garage too. A black one and a dark red one.

 

They're everywhere

Do they breed like Tribbles?

I wish I hadn't got rid of the two that came with my house all those years ago, but BT wanted more to take on the old girl's monthly rental contract than a cheap touch tone phone from Argos cost to buy at the time

I think we had to post them back to BT, or something, it was a long time ago.

 

We didn't get a phone till the late 60's.
My dad refused as he was always on call for any mechanical breakdowns down't pit.
They had to send a van for him if they really needed him.
I remember being shown how to use a public phone when I was about 12, mum had become unexpectedly expecting and I needed to know how to phone for an ambulance.
Young kids now.... don't know they're born...

 

Technically they belonged to BT.

 

My favourite was the 'party line' imagine that today

 

Ours was a 'party line ' at first....a right performance.

 

You should still be able to do this on a rotary dialler - go off hook and dial by tapping the hookswitch, thus defeating your mum’s phone lock

 

We used to have a party line when we first got a phone. You couldn’t make a call until Mrs Lewis next door had finished jabbering to her bloody sister

 

This one isn't connected up yet....perhaps I'll bring it to techenders to get you old phone experts to advise what I need to do.

 

Derwent Dam .... well and truly full.

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Do I hear sound of Lancasters in the background ?

 

A private jet did skim over and a military helicopter at one point..... not quite a Lancaster though.