General Chat

I think it must have been the early 60's and it was a shared line.

Geoff We have a cast off mobile too. I generally don't have need of one. House phone? That's another matter, but we have elderly relatives living at a distance, so 'It's good to talk'.

technology really has come a long way in the last 30 years hasn't it, which is a relatively short space of time...

I think it was about 1973 and it was an up to date TRIM PHONE in grey.

There was a phone already at our house when we moved there in 1970. Got our first fridge then too, and our first bathroom and inside loo, but no colour TV for another few years after that! Mum has still not got an automatic washing machine - still got a twin tub - and still uses a mangle to wring out clothes! Maz. XX

Must have been in the early 1950's and it was a shared line.

My folks got one in 1959 when my dad became self employed. It was only after I was married that I had one of my own (about 1978). I doubt I make more than a couple of calls a month. Our daughter's old mobile lives in my car in case of breakdown - I never carry it.

I remember as a child (1970's) we had a party line :~D We had to share a line with our nearest neighbours, If you picked up the phone and they were making a call you could listen to the conversation! And you had to wait until they'd finished their call before you could ring out ..... thank goodness for technology. Sioux

I reemmber us getting a phone when I was in 'middle school' so I would have been about 10 I think - so about 1980

I think we always had a phone for business reasons, I remember when I was at school, the girls thought I was lucky because we had one. We had one during WW2 June xx

We take phones so much for granted nowadays. Do you remember when your family didn't have one, or why they DID get one?