Showing posts with label Telephones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Telephones. Show all posts
Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Travelling in Greece in the summer of 1981 without a mobile, or a credit card

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Travelling in Cephalonia Now I never did Greece in the 70s. That was when many of my friends travelled the islands. Back then it ...
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Saturday, 18 June 2022

101 ways to use a Chorlton telephone box …..the Calypso one

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It’s just a sign of the times. Once no one would presume to post adverts on the side of a telephone kiosk. Which was partly because the old ...
Tuesday, 10 May 2022

101 ways to use a Chorlton telephone box …..

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Today I am thinking about the revolution in communication which has put a mobile phone into almost everyone’s hand and made the humble telep...
Friday, 28 January 2022

The dinosaur dropping through the door …… a lost clue to the past

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Now I have to say that I thought the old-fashioned telephone directory had gone the way of the dinosaur, the dodo and the quaint custom of l...
Thursday, 28 May 2020

Telephone Exchanges…….. doing the essential walk and making it historic .... no. 26

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I have to say, I thought telephone exchanges were as dead  as the telegram, and VHS recorders. But not so, as Barbarella’s picture of t...
Thursday, 10 December 2015

Telephones Boxes I have known ............. part 5 signs and a story

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Now I am part of that generation that grew up with the gas board, travelled on British Railways and trusted the Post Office to deliver bo...
Monday, 20 April 2015

On rediscovering that the Postal Order still exists and pondering on the telegram, the trunk call and the big red telephone box

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Three in a row, 2012, Knaresborough I am always fascinated at the little bits of my past which have long since vanished. And yesterda...