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[harryagain]

That was a long one. In the 90's our phone number was still:- Little Mill 200

[harryagain]

We had an external bell. You could hear it at 200 yards. But as nobody else lived within two miles it didn't matter.

[harryagain]

We had the glow/radioactive one. We also had a parrot that could mimic the warble exactly. Really should have had it's neck wrung that one.

[ARW]

And were you taught at school how to dial 999 using one of those phones if the lights were not working?

[Tim Watts]

Taught myself :)

Our teachers did not teach us much useful in the way of everyday stuff (at least at infants and middle school).

[spuorgelgoog]

Not at school, but I now remember there was a page in the Telephone Directory with instructions.

Perhaps I should add it to my Internal Telephone Directory for the benefit of any visitors :-)

Owain

[Vir Campestris]

My wife _still_ complains that we had to leave out pushbutton trimphone behind when we moved. Wired in of course...

Andy

[Andy Burns]

You think anyone would have noticed it missing? Claim you had it removed as a radioactive hazard [he said, glancing at 5 GTLS vials].

[spuorgelgoog]

Buy her a nice new second-hand one from Ebay then.

Owain

[meow2222]

It wasn't just parrots, some wild bird had the identical ringtone. Product design oops.

Yes the dial light was radioactive. Today they're all well decayed, but the y did work. I guess they spent ££ on dial lighting to ensure folk could call in an emergency that took out mains power. But if you're used to a di al its hardly a challenge to dial 999 in darkness.

NT

[Chris French]

I think our phone number in the mid '70's was a four digit one.

I do still re ember a few numbers :-)

And local dialling codes :-) do they still exist/are they useable?

[Chris French]

My mum still has a dial phone (706 or similar) upstairs, I don't know if it is still connected, but it was still in operation in there old house (moved about 9 years ago) Think was still their main phone then

My neice (now mid '20s, probably about 13 was visiting . She was entirely befuddled when she was presented with it when goign to make a phone call :-)