Old style phones

[JoM]

Oh blimey Kaz, I bet you wondered what had happened when they arrived!

[Kaz]

Just slightly

[Aggers]

What an interesting thread.

We didn't have a phone until 1952 when we moved into a new house. I forget the number.

I remember once dialling a number that I had seen the GPO engineer use to test the line. Nothing happened until I plonked the handset back on, and then it started ringing and I couldn't stop the damn thing! I had to disconnect the wires in the connecting box and get the engineer back to fix it. I never told him what I had done.

Do you remember... "On the third stroke it will be 8-45 a.m. precisely".

[Diflower]

Aggers I remember that happening as my mum was a telephonist and then worked in the office organising the engineers, so she would test the line by dialling a number if we had problems
Gosh 1952, you were posh I think it was about 1966 before we had one I do remember the number though, I use some of it for passwords

[debih]

Most of our numbers around here are 5 digit numbers which often confuses people, especially anything automated.

My friend has the best number - 55555. I want it!

[Ally]

Over here a mobile phone has 9 numbers...of which Conor has seven 6's in his.