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Title: Phone box
Post by: BazaJT on 17 March 2017, 18:56:25
Ther's one of these about a hundred yards from the entrance to work,as I was walking past it to where I park the car[no on site parking]I saw a young[early/mid twenties I'd guess]in it and he was chatting away like a good 'n.........on his mobile phone :o :o
Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: cam.in.head on 17 March 2017, 19:00:04
Probably hiding from the storm. Its bl.....dy windy here at the moment !
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Post by: BazaJT on 17 March 2017, 19:04:29
Been a bit breezy here all day but nowt too drastic :y
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 17 March 2017, 19:10:30
Probably using the free wifi to use Whatsapp :y
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Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 17 March 2017, 19:18:38
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: Andy B on 17 March 2017, 20:20:25
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

I'm  55 & have only ever seen one phone box with 'push button A & push button B  :D
Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: New POD on 17 March 2017, 21:22:47
My daughter is an university some 250 miles away.  She probably talks to my wife every other day, and Her Boyfriend a couple of times a day (he's about 200 miles from her)
When I explained how I kept in touch with her mother when I was a student in Coventry and she was a student nurse in Birmingham, she does not believe it.

First you send a letter, stating what time you expect to arrive on what day, and where you will meet, in case the phone doesn't work.
then you go to a phone box. There are 8 on the corner, but a queue of 20 people, so you walk to the next corner, and keep walking until you find an empty one. I often got a couple of miles out up into Coundon, before I found one.
Then I'd put a pile of 10ps in front of me, and dial a public phone inside the ground floor of the nurses residence. If you were lucky, someone would answer, take your phone number and go and find her.  And then she'd phone back.
If not, you might be waiting for someone to answer, or they'd answer and not have anything to write the number down, and they'd leave you waiting consuming 10ps.
 
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 17 March 2017, 21:35:28
Those were the days :D
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Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 17 March 2017, 22:07:43
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

Do you remember the wind up phones, Lizzie? ::) ::) :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: Andy B on 17 March 2017, 22:07:58
My daughter is an university some 250 miles away.  She probably talks to my wife every other day, and Her Boyfriend a couple of times a day (he's about 200 miles from her)
When I explained how I kept in touch with her mother when I was a student in Coventry and she was a student nurse in Birmingham, she does not believe it.

First you send a letter, stating what time you expect to arrive on what day, and where you will meet, in case the phone doesn't work.
then you go to a phone box. There are 8 on the corner, but a queue of 20 people, so you walk to the next corner, and keep walking until you find an empty one. I often got a couple of miles out up into Coundon, before I found one.
Then I'd put a pile of 10ps in front of me, and dial a public phone inside the ground floor of the nurses residence. If you were lucky, someone would answer, take your phone number and go and find her.  And then she'd phone back.
If not, you might be waiting for someone to answer, or they'd answer and not have anything to write the number down, and they'd leave you waiting consuming 10ps.

We did exactly the same when I was in the RN &  SWMBO was in married quarters ....
Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: Mister Rog on 17 March 2017, 22:41:38
My daughter is an university some 250 miles away.  She probably talks to my wife every other day, and Her Boyfriend a couple of times a day (he's about 200 miles from her)
When I explained how I kept in touch with her mother when I was a student in Coventry and she was a student nurse in Birmingham, she does not believe it.

First you send a letter, stating what time you expect to arrive on what day, and where you will meet, in case the phone doesn't work.
then you go to a phone box. There are 8 on the corner, but a queue of 20 people, so you walk to the next corner, and keep walking until you find an empty one. I often got a couple of miles out up into Coundon, before I found one.
Then I'd put a pile of 10ps in front of me, and dial a public phone inside the ground floor of the nurses residence. If you were lucky, someone would answer, take your phone number and go and find her.  And then she'd phone back.
If not, you might be waiting for someone to answer, or they'd answer and not have anything to write the number down, and they'd leave you waiting consuming 10ps.

We did exactly the same when I was in the RN &  SWMBO was in married quarters ....

You actually needed to be very organised. If a date and time was set to meet with someone, that was it, you stuck to it as there was no way to change things at short notice. Probably why I piss people off with exact details on some things. Yes, I know I piss people off anyway, but. . .
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Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 17 March 2017, 23:02:16
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

I'm  55 & have only ever seen one phone box with 'push button A & push button B  :D

Ah, you're only a baby Andy ;D ;D

Those boxes disappeared during the first years of the 60's.  I miss them ;)
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Post by: Mister Rog on 17 March 2017, 23:05:28
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

I'm  55 & have only ever seen one phone box with 'push button A & push button B  :D

Ah, you're only a baby Andy ;D ;D

Those boxes disappeared during the first years of the 60's.  I miss them ;)

Oh come on Lizzie they were a pain in the **** having to top up all the time.

Besides, you can't possible be old enough to remember them  ::)

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Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 17 March 2017, 23:06:27
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

Do you remember the wind up phones, Lizzie? ::) ::) :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

Very funny ::) ::)

I do remember the little black generators next to some commercial phones that you used to activate an extension. I also remember the police phones boxes being very common.
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Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 17 March 2017, 23:16:07
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

I'm  55 & have only ever seen one phone box with 'push button A & push button B  :D

Ah, you're only a baby Andy ;D ;D

Those boxes disappeared during the first years of the 60's.  I miss them ;)


Oh come on Lizzie they were a pain in the **** having to top up all the time.

Besides, you can't possible be old enough to remember them  ::)

How kind  :-* :-* ;D

The truth is I do and I loved them. I remember the warmth of the box with the wind and rain, that I had been dragged through by mum, beating against it's sides. The smell of the box was also something special; not urine in those days, but a mixture of paint, cast iron, concrete, leather, and Bakelite. Then there was the satisfactory and rather enjoyable sound of the coins going through when button A was pushed.  If button B had to be pushed it meant another trip to the box later!! Ah the memories! :-* :-*

What a luxury our first home phone was in 1965 :D
Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: Varche on 17 March 2017, 23:30:22
Anyoneremember tapping out free calls?

It worked but our nearest phone box was three miles away!
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Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 18 March 2017, 01:08:09
So those red pissoirs were actually for making phone calls?  :-\               :D ;D
Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: Mister Rog on 18 March 2017, 10:40:17
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

I'm  55 & have only ever seen one phone box with 'push button A & push button B  :D

Ah, you're only a baby Andy ;D ;D

Those boxes disappeared during the first years of the 60's.  I miss them ;)


Oh come on Lizzie they were a pain in the **** having to top up all the time.

Besides, you can't possible be old enough to remember them  ::)

How kind  :-* :-* ;D

The truth is I do and I loved them. I remember the warmth of the box with the wind and rain, that I had been dragged through by mum, beating against it's sides. The smell of the box was also something special; not urine in those days, but a mixture of paint, cast iron, concrete, leather, and Bakelite. Then there was the satisfactory and rather enjoyable sound of the coins going through when button A was pushed.  If button B had to be pushed it meant another trip to the box later!! Ah the memories! :-* :-*

What a luxury our first home phone was in 1965 :D


Ah yes, those were the days . . . . . .  ::)

I REMEMBER WHEN . . . . .   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTS7-9RVApE)     ;D




Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: amazonian on 18 March 2017, 22:43:55


Anyoneremember tapping out free calls?

It worked but our nearest phone box was three miles away!


I remember it well Varche,  made many a call for nowt by tapping the receiver rest, but usually kept the call short for fear of being 'discovered' by the authorities.

Those were the days eh!

 :)   :)
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Post by: Varche on 18 March 2017, 22:48:31
Simple pleasures unlike today .

Mind you we were frightened of the police and espected them!
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Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 18 March 2017, 23:02:16
Anyone remember dial a disc ? The world was a simpler place then.
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Post by: dbug on 19 March 2017, 02:09:08
Anyoneremember tapping out free calls?

It worked but our nearest phone box was three miles away!

Remember it well - used that "facility" all the time when I was a kid, mainly to phone home.
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Post by: dbug on 19 March 2017, 02:22:03
Also remember using "Engineer Codes" around the same time to get free calls.
Title: Re: Phone box
Post by: Ever Ready on 19 March 2017, 08:55:55
As a child I used to walk past two of the  A & B phone boxes and always had to press the B button in case some flash git had left money in it :y

Around the same time I used to scan the ground in front of me looking for pennies etc, my dad used to tell me I would get a cric in my neck, never did though :y
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Post by: STEMO on 19 March 2017, 09:24:36
As a child I used to walk past two of the  A & B phone boxes and always had to press the B button in case some flash git had left money in it :y

Around the same time I used to scan the ground in front of me looking for pennies etc, my dad used to tell me I would get a cric in my neck, never did though :y
Was your dad not Scottish?
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Post by: powerslinky on 19 March 2017, 09:32:28
The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!! :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

I'm  55 & have only ever seen one phone box with 'push button A & push button B  :D

Phased out in mid 60's as I recall . I can remember them when I was about 10. Our gang used to push an old handkerchief up the money return chute , wait for someone to use the box , & if they could not get through , they would try to get their money back  ::)
Strangely the money would not come out . .  ::) ::) . .  we would watch until they had gone & go & retrieve the "Loot".  Nearest I ever got to being a gangster ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Ever Ready on 19 March 2017, 09:33:32
As a child I used to walk past two of the  A & B phone boxes and always had to press the B button in case some flash git had left money in it :y

Around the same time I used to scan the ground in front of me looking for pennies etc, my dad used to tell me I would get a cric in my neck, never did though :y
Was your dad not Scottish?

He was indeed but I was closer to the ground than him ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 19 March 2017, 11:10:42
Reminds me of a Billy Conolly joke... his dad was so tight, he once dropped a fifty pence coin and it hit him on the back of the head when he went to pick it up ;D