General Chat

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

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

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 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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'.

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

We got ours in the early 80sI think as i was still in primary school. Anna :-)

i think it was when i was about 6 or 7(1976-77). Karen

My mother had a phone installed the day I moved out of home(at the age of 22), so she could 'keep in touch with me'. (Check up on me, more like!) CB >|<

First phone we had was when I got married in 1970. Dave

my parents had always had a phone so don't know

I was at college so it would have been 1976 as I remember long phone calls about romantic entanglements. It was two tone green to match our hall wallpaper. nell

My parents got the phone in 1958... my father's boss paid to have it connected so he could call my Dad out in the middle of the night! Viv

I remember answering a phone in an old farmhouse that we lived in in the late sixties. It was an old black one with a fabric covered cord from the phone to the receiver , old style dial and a little drawer under the dial to keep telephone numbers on. Louise

A bit like Viv, my Dad was able to be called out in the night once we had a phone. As he was a telephone engineer it was usually in the worst possible weather, when faults had been reported elsewhere, because of water in the cables, or similar. This was GPO. I don't think BT workers would like that too much.