Do you remember.

[Chippy_Tea]

Nice TV Anna.

Who remembers Rediffusion cable TV, the box below was on the side of the Livingroom window and you selected the channel you wanted to watch using it as there were no channel buttons on the TV set.

 

[MmmBeer]

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Gas street lights and the lamplighters.

I remember going to a pub near where I grew up that had gas mantle lighting in the bar.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

urinal cakes!!

Splashback

 

[BarnBrian]

I remember my first pay packet was like the ones below including coins.

Same here. My first years wage as an apprentice was £2 10s 8d per week. Mum got 10s of that.

 

[chopps]

We had one in this colour.

Sad to admit, I collect these phones... I got a cream and brown one too.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Sad to admit, I collect these phones... I got a cream and brown one too.

Can they be made to work with our existing system?

 

[chillipickle]

Sadly i can remember almost of the things pictured, thankful not the gas lighter haha.

Chopps we had a red one of them phones.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I forgot the dark green ring round the dial this is the one we had not the earlier one i posted.

A proper ring -

 

[chillipickle]

Them phones and the local pub....was the best social media ever :hat:

 

[chillipickle]

What an upgrade :)

 

[johnny108]

Dodge ball.
That is all.

 

[jof]

The phones still work with the current system (At least the one in my mums house does)
My brother offered to wire in a tone dial phone as well in so she could use all the automated phone systems, but she never uses it.
Having said that, it still works, whereas my landline phone that 18 months old no longer works, but then its too expensive to call on it when we have mobile phones or VOIP accounts these days.

 

[Gerryjo]

We had one in this colour.

We had one with a lock but lift receiver,tap out your number with ten taps for zero and pause in between and off you went ...

 

[Chippy_Tea]

What an upgrade :)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Remember getting a brilliant pattern going then you slipped and spoilt it

 

[Tommo 2]

Nice TV Anna.

Who remembers Rediffusion cable TV, the box below was on the side of the Livingroom window and you selected the channel you wanted to watch using it as there were no channel buttons on the TV set.



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Sure do and radio rentals where the telly came from

 

[hughjamton]

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Gas street lights and the lamplighters.

Aluminium Ladder? lol.

 

[chopps]

Can they be made to work with our existing system?

On BT line yes, as they still handle pulse dialing rather than exclusively tones. You need to fit a BT plug or new cable to the phone. Quite easy. Some people report that ADSL filters cause dialling errors but I never had that.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I remember Radio rentals but we had a Rumbelows here.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Aluminium Ladder? lol.

Modern picture of old practice.