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After World War Two - Heathrow Airport FacilitiesAfter World War Two - The rather basic Heathrow Airport Reception and Communication Facilities. Date: 1946
Police Public Call Box in the snow, LondonA Police Public Call Box, on a London street on a snowy day. The Metropolitan Police introduced police boxes throughout the London area between 1928 and 1937
Cobham Air Routes PosterPoster, Cobham Air Routes, offering flights to Guernsey in 2 hours. With a map of the south coast. 20th century
It sounds good to me by David Wright showing a woman in a revealing outfit and stocking talking on the telephone. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during
Pleasure Flights Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, Bembridge Farm Aerodrome at any time by arrangement at the farm
Policeman at a police call boxA policeman on the phone at a police public call box on a London street
Police Public Call Box, LondonA police officer using a Police Public Call Box on a London street. The Metropolitan Police introduced police boxes throughout the London area between 1928 and 1937
Telephone SwitchboardNew Scotland Yard switchboard
Switchboard Girls / 1930SGirls working on a telephone switchboard, watched over by a stern-looking supervisor
Brochure illustration, W Barratt & Co Ltd, Northampton, showing the Footshape Works where the boots and shoes are made, with addresses of branches below, in London, Bradford, Brighton and Leicester
Tatler front cover, 9 March 1960Front cover of the Tatler featuring a photograph of a woman, eating breakfast while arranging to meet friends over the telephone. 1960
Advert for using a telephoneIt pays to telephone ! Remember - a telephone in your home saves you time, money, and worry, and minimises inconvenience, anxiety, and loneliness
Heath Robinson Bedroom 4 of 4Heath Robinson Does Away with Servants - Patent Applied for by " The Sketch" in the Bedroom. A bedroom, which is a typically Heath Robinson design, with a system of pulleys
Policeman and Call BoxA police officer on the beat south of Pall Mall, central London, reports back to the station using a police call box
Telephone Exchange 1929Londons new Automatic Telephone Exchange, showing an engineer testing the new revolutionary system, whereby subscribers were connected without an operator
Police Box in UseA police constable using the telephone at a police box
Ericsson Table Phone - 3A table instrument by the Ericsson Company of Stockholm. There is no handle to alert the exchange, perhaps this is done with that knob : the bell is very noticeable
Automatic Phone ExchangeAutomatic telephone exchange of the British Post Office, which at that time managed the telephone network
Transatlantic communications: telephoning London to New YorkHow the London telephone subscriber will " get" New York: the wonders of transatlantic telephony, as explained by The Illustrated London News in 1927. Date: 1927
Advert promoting the Post Office Telephone Service. Date: 1932
Manchester, England - Piccadilly GardensManchester, England - the busy Piccadilly Street and Piccadilly Gardens showing shop fronts, cars, and businesses. circa 1910s
Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959. Date: 1959
Pin Up on telephone by David WrightAn alluring blonde woman in a black evening dress and white fur stole talks on a red telephone while looking seductively at the viewer
Soho, London - 8 Newburgh Street W1 - Deja Vu, a painted psychedelic shop front viewed from Lowndes Court. 1973
RAF Harrier Jump Jets, No. 1 Squadron, set up in 1969. The jump jet is a vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft. Seen here are staff at work in a control tower
November 1951 by David Wright, showing a woman posed on the telephone. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s
Stationery, Pawlyn & Sons, Victoria Square, Truro, CornwallStationery, Pawlyn & Sons, Fish & Oyster Merchants, 14 Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall, with handwritten details. 1918
Poster, Anglo-Swiss Telephone Service, showing a woman skating in the Alps. 20th century
A London skyscape: the sky in Soho, 1905The maze of telephone wires over Soho, at the Gerrard Street telephone exchange. The steeple of St Anne s, Soho, can be seen in the distance, on the otherside of Shaftesbury Avenue. Date: 1905
Advertisement for Daimler hire cars with chauffeurAdvertisement for Daimler hire cars, complete with chauffeur. Showing a Daimler landaulette in front of a large country house. Date: circa 1930s
London Fire Brigades organisation and equipmentA selection of small drawings of the events that take place in 1937, when a call by a pedestrian seeing flames and smoke to the very end when the fire has been put out
Man and boy, Timsgarry Post Office, Isle of LewisA man and a boy stand at the door of the rustic Timsgarry Post Office, Uig, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
A TelewriterA telewriter at Dollis Hill telephone exchange, London. Date: early 1930s
Example of a woman dialling 999 for the emergency services in a red telephone booth
A long line of telephone switchboards with female operators
Cheeky American Military postcardA GI uses his position to his advantage, stopping and searching a pretty young girl who he accuses of being a spy! I think he has just spied something else however... Date: 1941
1934 G. P. O telephone advertisementAdvertisement for some rather eye-catching handmicrophone instrument in fine colours such as Chinese red, jade green and ivory white. The dial is chromium plated and the flex is silk-covered in grey
London telephone exchange, WWIIWomen telephone operators at a London telephone exchange with tin helmets, during World War II
A German Zeppelins observation car photographed on display as part of a public exhibition of dirigible wreckage collected from across Britain
Blonde in Bath 1960SA blonde model sits in a trendy, but miniscule bubble bath, covering her embarrassment with a sponge whilst taking a phone call
Londons new telephone-post kioskA new telephone kiosk in use in a London street, showing a caller inside, postage stamps being bought from the machine outside, and a postman collecting mail from the letterbox
Phone Exchange / 1903The switchboard of the National Telephone Company, United Kingdom
Telephone / Bell & GrayAn imaginary conversation between Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, using their own telephone devices
Advert, Hotel Hydro, Peebles, ScotlandAdvert for Hotel Hydro, Peebles, Scottish Borders, Scotland. 1905
Woman on the telephone, postcard" Hello, are you there?" An early example of cold calling by telemarketers
Metropolitan Police operations room, LondonView of a Metropolitan Police operations room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers and telephonists busy taking calls
Woman On the Phone Date: 1916
Converting a London telephone exchangeFront cover photograph of the stupendous task of converting a London telephone exchange to the new Automatic Principle. Date: October 1926