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Post by pepperpot on Oct 13, 2017 12:18:24 GMT
I still have one of those I brought home from an office where it was attached to 'the modem' - high tech indeed. It's a fetching teal colour and matches the bedroom decor nicely, where it sits as my emergency phone that never gets used as I take the mobile up anyway. My 9 year old niece was totally mesmerised by it when she came to stay recently. My wife's father passed away some 3 years ago now, he was an incessant hoarder, lived in a pre 1900 stone house, end one of a block of 4 with the Jennil (or is it a ginnel?) down the middle, the cot loft and cellar were crammed with rubbi.... stuff. One of the things we found was a black bakelite telephone, took it to the charity shop, never even considered that it might have had some value, it was only 3 years ago, but i wish we had kept it, and some other things as well... Oh well. In the spirit of one-upmanship, I've got two of those phones. One of which I think still technically belongs to BT, couldn't believe it when I saw one of my folks quarterly phone bills with an entry 'telephone equipment - £2.20'. Worked out they'd been renting it for 47 years by two successive generations! I've kept shtum for the last 8 years, hopefully I'm not dodging a balloon payment.
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Post by fp on Oct 13, 2017 12:36:14 GMT
Trim phones are the one which stick in my mind, My mother used to put a lock on the dial on ours to stop me and my elder sister using it, but you could actually use the receiver switch to dial numbers, for instance if you were dialling 12345, you would tap it as follows: tap - tap,tap - tap,tap,tap - tap,tap,tap,tap - tap,tap,tap,tap,tap
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Post by oldgrumpy on Oct 13, 2017 12:40:22 GMT
Trim phones are the one which stick in my mind, My mother used to put a lock on the dial on ours to stop me and my elder sister using it, but you could actually use the receiver switch to dial numbers, for instance if you were dialling 12345, you would tap it as follows: tap - tap,tap - tap,tap,tap - tap,tap,tap,tap - tap,tap,tap,tap,tap Mmmmm! In the 50s and early 60s that method used to work in phone boxes, so you didn't have to put any pennies in, and the Buttons A and B were redundant ..... so I am told.
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Post by Nomad on Oct 13, 2017 12:49:27 GMT
Trim phones are the one which stick in my mind, My mother used to put a lock on the dial on ours to stop me and my elder sister using it, but you could actually use the receiver switch to dial numbers, for instance if you were dialling 12345, you would tap it as follows: tap - tap,tap - tap,tap,tap - tap,tap,tap,tap - tap,tap,tap,tap,tap Mmmmm! In the 50s and early 60s that method used to work in phone boxes, so you didn't have to put any pennies in, and the Buttons A and B were redundant ..... so I am told. A common practice for calling home for free from University many years back - Switch hook
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Post by martin44 on Oct 13, 2017 14:01:20 GMT
Me and the wife got our own first telephone number in 1977 , and we still have the same number today, apart from the city code change and the added number. *(so it's not quite the same number)* So 40 years.... Beat that. edit **
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Post by chielamangus on Oct 13, 2017 14:03:19 GMT
I never passed a phone box without nipping in and pressing button B. It paid off two or three times too. And what about stamp machines? I once put a penny in and got out a three foot stream of halfpenny stamps. But none of this compensated for all those pennies spent in seaside machines trying fruitlessly to grab those tantalising prizes with a grabber.
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Post by yorkshireman on Oct 13, 2017 14:04:03 GMT
Me and the wife got our own first telephone number in 1977 , and we still have the same number today, apart from the city code change and the added number. So 40 years.... Beat that. We can't quite equal that with 32 years.
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Post by martin44 on Oct 13, 2017 14:06:06 GMT
I never passed a phone box without nipping in and pressing button B. It paid off two or three times too. And what about stamp machines? I once put a penny in and got out a three foot stream of halfpenny stamps. But none of this compensated for all those pennies spent in seaside machines trying fruitlessly to grab those tantalising prizes with a grabber. And Green shield stamps... wonder what happened to them?
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Post by merlin on Oct 13, 2017 14:12:52 GMT
I never passed a phone box without nipping in and pressing button B. It paid off two or three times too. And what about stamp machines? I once put a penny in and got out a three foot stream of halfpenny stamps. But none of this compensated for all those pennies spent in seaside machines trying fruitlessly to grab those tantalising prizes with a grabber. And Green shield stamps... wonder what happened to them? Now there's a subject ripe for discussion, Green Shield stamps. Firstly I don't know when they disappeared but I do have and occasionally use a radio alarm clock that I got after saving up God knows how many green shield stamps back in the 1980's. Effectively my employer paid for it, as I got the Green Shield stamps from the garage every time I filled up the company car. So trump that!!
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Post by martin44 on Oct 13, 2017 14:21:06 GMT
And Green shield stamps... wonder what happened to them? Now there's a subject ripe for discussion, Green Shield stamps. Firstly I don't know when they disappeared but I do have and occasionally use a radio alarm clock that I got after saving up God knows how many green shield stamps back in the 1980's. So trump that!! Introduced in 1958 and concluded 1991 apparently I vaguely remember they were around, but cannot ever remember using/buying or obtaining any.
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Post by m2btj on Oct 13, 2017 14:28:01 GMT
I can still remember my dear old mum licking & sticking pages of stamps into the books to claim her reward in the Green Shield Stamp Shop. I can also remember her buying my first ever pair of Levi Jeans in the early 70's with a Provident cheque. I didn't even know what a Provy cheque was until many years later.
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Post by chielamangus on Oct 13, 2017 14:54:37 GMT
Green shield stamps? They're still around in concept but morphed into loyalty cards and "points" - no need for all that licking 'n' sticking. American Express do the points thing and a "friend" of mine won't buy anything unless he can use his Amex card to amass more points. At the last count he told me he had over 200k, but have no idea what that is worth. I have airmiles languishing somewhere, probably worth nothing. They'll go in the bin on my next move.
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Post by registerme on Oct 13, 2017 14:56:47 GMT
I have airmiles languishing somewhere, probably worth nothing. I can't remember precisely what it said, or when or where I read it, but a while ago there was a half-serious comment to the effect that the value of all outstanding air miles, globally, was greater than the market capitalisation of all airlines, globally.
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Post by macq on Oct 13, 2017 15:30:55 GMT
I never passed a phone box without nipping in and pressing button B. It paid off two or three times too. And what about stamp machines? I once put a penny in and got out a three foot stream of halfpenny stamps. But none of this compensated for all those pennies spent in seaside machines trying fruitlessly to grab those tantalising prizes with a grabber. And Green shield stamps... wonder what happened to them? forget button B - a lolly stick up the coin return slot was better (so i was told) Green shield stamps = Argos.Then there were pink stamps maybe from petrol stations along with World cup coins. And on the savings front there were 1 shilling stamps from the Post office which you stuck in a book for i think £1 a page
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Post by fp on Oct 13, 2017 16:29:20 GMT
I've had the same mobile telephone number for 23 years, I bet not many can make that claim
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