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Same place I lived up until Mum died. I believe I told you before. I think Hurst Road was Coppermill too.

Much better than all numerics!

My mum being clever was talking about her Bank card pin number a little while ago....and said no one will guess that, it's my parents old phone number.

She was a bit shocked when I said hold on I will look it up on ancestry :-D

They lived Blackhorse Lane area then Forest road area

Sorry Jax only just seen the reply.

Definitely not Coppermill because I have my phone number written in one of my books..lolol that was in 1960.

I think Woodstock Road area was Coppermill because I had a friend there.

Sue

Oi! Sharron!!!!
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Don't give away my secrets!!! :-P :-P :-P

*I will defeat the Desperate Dan hairs one day* :-D

*The lichen like my legs* :-D

I laughed so heartily when I read Sharron's quip about Maggie-in-Winchester that I woke the husband up :-D

So you were not Coppermill then Sue? shall have to look grandparents up they may have been Larkswood in the 50s (before my time) but pretty sure they were Coppermill in the 60s

We never had a home phone until the mid 70s but always remembered dads work number in the 60s Tem2468 ex32....doubt whether I ever had the need to ring him :-)

Dear All

Hello

Very pleased the post prompted memories of using the old telephones.

As always, all replies are very welcome.


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Elizabeth,
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:-D <3 :-D at least I admitted it...lololol

that's why I likes ya :-D

I am indeed ;-) :-D

so Sue - you are admitting you are a crim ;-)

I always tapped numbers in instead of paying 4d and pushing button A..lolol Can't think of any friends who did pay for their calls.

Our phone number was Larkswood 3812 my sisters was Ivanhoe XXXX how much preferable to just having a string of numbers :-D

Here are the old names :

http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/phreak/tenp_01.htm

Shared lines......A great thing if you were nosy about your neighbours ;-)

Chris

was also possible to get free calls by tapping out the numbers on the cradle on some phones...

London had self dialing within Greater London years before. I am fairly sure the call box charge for a local call was 4 old pence in 1960. From the late 60s those with a technical bent, inspired by captain crunch, put together little gizmos which sent the right tones down the lines for free calls and pranks. My uni. took a dim view. Nowadays things have moved on and it is OK for big biz and big govt to hack yr phone but when needed most either it is flat or no signal.

I was still having to go through the operators from 1967 -1970 when I did my weekly phone call to my parents at a friends house. My parents applied for a phone in 1967, when I left home, and it arrived in 1970 just as I went abroad and unable because of cost to phone UK. We had to communicate via what is now referred to as snail mail. :-)

If someone had said to me in 1959 that sometime in the future you will be able to carry a telephone in your pocket and you will be able to dial anyone in the world, I would have told them to get their head examined. :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 ;-) ;-) ;-)

GP

Fred was a long distance lorry driver in the fifties and early sixties and he remembered ringing his boss from Nottingham and having to tell the operator the call went through Guildford.

I have met Maggie and she actually does have green legs and a beard.

Always pressed button B just in case before making a call, a bit like a free slot machine it made that tick tick tick sound and with luck 4 Pennies emerged :-D

jax, Yep probably Electronic ,read again, Mechanical ATM.or Hole in the wall dispensing machines, (doubt if they could have been called Automatic). like those chocolate bar machines in railway stations, only more Sophisticated, My eyes do not lie, nor do my connection with the Bank after I left school 1948.
PS they were better made than the present Electronic ones. The Royal Bank was probably ahead of Barclays Electronic ones anyway(1967). hehe.