My, how life has changed.......

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I'm, kind of, up to date with technology. Here's my mobile phone that I can move from room to room.

 

I have a book, published in 1912, that tells you how to properly use this new fangled thing called a telephone. It's called 'Enquire Within Upon Everything'. A fascinating read. My father bought the book when it was new!

 

That’s a lovely memory you have there @shiney..

 

@Marley Farley it's a lovely book. It covers lots of subjects from cookery, how to remove stains, the etiquette of greeting visitors to your house and then saying goodbye (it depends on their importance and relationship to you - not close to you, you allow your maid or manservant to escort them out, depending on how close to you, you either see them to the door of the room or to the front door), where to stand in a room when visiting a sick person, the correct forms of address for people etc.

 

My new car keeps telling me I haven't linked my mobile to the car although I keep telling it that I don't have a mobile. It has even told me that I should take a rest!!!

 

Our telephone that we had in the hall (the old black Bakelite one with the drawer in the bottom) went wrong once. We could make calls but couldn't receive them.

So I phoned BT about it and complained. They were very good and took me through all the different things to try with the phone. When it got to the stage where they told me to turn the phone upside down and remove the metal plate covering the bell and check whether there was a loose wire, I told them that the phone doesn't have a bell in it. They asked me how the phone rings if we don't have a bell. So I said that we have a box on the wall with two bells init.

There was silence on the other end for a moment and then the man said that they had been looking for one of those sets of bells for a long time to put in the BT Museum so could they come and collect the phone and the box with the bells and they would give us any phone we wanted, doesn't matter what the price is. I said that I couldn't do that as the bells were in a mahogany box fixed to the wall and if they took it there would be a gap in the wallpaper. They told me to buy a new lot of wallpaper and they would repaper the whole hall. The engineer came round three days later with a decorator.

 

It sounds a lovely book Some of the mannerisms of yesterday have gone now or have become defunct... Up until 2 yrs ago I had one of these that had been updated by a Telecome friendly work on today’s lines...My grandson has it now in his place..!

It originally came from the family hotel where the number was Marlborough 1...!!

 

That's the type of phone we used to have

We must have been later than you as our phone number here used to be 296.

 

When we first moved here our number was 226.!

 

Nowadays you need 11 numbers