Phone Collection (page 6)

Letter headed paper by Muriel Dawson, giving her address and phone number, with a decorative border of children. Date: 1920s

Interior of carriage where Armistice signed, France, WW1
Interior of Marshal Fochs railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne, France, where the Armistice was signed on 11 November 1918 to end the First World War

Seaside scene, Come Right Along Now! Showing a young woman in a bathing costume near a beach, on the phone to a friend. Date: July 1914

Print Users Yearbook -- people in underwear
Print Users Yearbook -- people viewed in a cutaway of a house, all in underwear. A new standard of intimacy. Who would have guessed that undies were the correct garb to don when entertaining guests

Cover design, Telephone Numbers book
Cover design for a Telephone Numbers book, depicting a woman writing at a desk with a telephone next to her

Training in taking telephone messages
Men of the London Fire Brigade being trained in taking telephone messages. Date: 1930

Men working at watchroom telephone switchboard
Firefighters working on the watchroom telephone switchboard at Southwark Fire Station. Date: circa 1909

James Sutton Removals
A removal van belonging to James Sutton Removals. Storage is also offered

Secretary Taking Notes
A secretary takes notes as a man at a desk talks on the phone. Date: late 1960s

AIRHOSTESS
An air hostess talks on the phone. Date: late 1960s

Doctor and Nurse
A doctor sits at his desk taking an appointment over the phone with a nurse looking at it over his shoulder. Date: late 1960s

New phone line at the number 27 Post Office, Japan
The opening of the new telephone line at the number 27 Post Office, Japan. Inset portraits of two postal officials. Date: 1911

Communication - Far easier for the younger generation, even in 1903! The little girl: " Grandmother, Dad said he did not want to kiss you, by phone" - the response is a miserable Granny

Railway crisis, go by air Phone Avro Sandwich board man
Railway crisis, go by air. Phone Avro. Sandwich board man

Cat answering the telephone

Advert for G. P. O telephone 1933
Why not include it among your Christmas gifts ? Date: 1933

Bell Demonstrates Phone
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL successfully demonstrates his device at Boston, sending a message to North Conway, a distance of about 230 km. Date: 1877

London Fire Brigade Headquarters telephone switchboard

London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator
A London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator

LCC-LFB Brigade headquarters station watchroom
The watchroom of Southwark Fire Station. Although this had a telephone switchboard serving the adjacent headquarters of the Brigade

LCC-MFB Firemen in switchboard & control room
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

NFS radio operator at Ealing HQ (34 D), WW2
NFS radio operator at the radio desk, Fire Force Area 34, Ealing HQ (34 D). On the board in front of her is the listing for the London Regional Area call signs

Home Office-NFS Fire Force mobile telecom unit, WW2
NFS firewoman control officer using the London Fire Brigade Portable Telephone Cabinet (Home Office)

NFS London Region control room, HQ, WW2
Firemen and firewomen of the NFS (London Region) at the telephone switchboard of the control room at Lambeth HQ

Hillmans Airways Essex Airport Poster
Poster, Hillmans Airways, Essex Airport, offering flights from London to Paris (no passports required), Belfast, Liverpool and the Isle of Man, with prices and flight durations. 20th century

By Air Anywhere Poster, Croydon 3421, see London by night. Surrey Flying Services Ltd, Croydon & Plymouth. 20th century

Santa Claus on the telephone
Santa takes a call, 1892 Date: 1892

Talking on the telephone, postcard
" I don t know why ou botherd to send me a postcard, a phone call would have been much quicker!" - the declining post card industry pokes fun at itself in 1915. 1915

An example of an early telephone switchboard

Girls on the telephone
Fabulous illustration showing a number of teenage girls, all wearing 1950s style checked capri pants and boat neck sweaters while lounging around chatting on the phone. Date: 1950s

Train to be a nurses aide Phone your boro Civilian Defense Volunteer Office. Poster encouraging women to become nurses aides for the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office

Butchers van, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A butcher poses beside his new delivery van. Tom Greenwood was a family butcher at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, and clearly took pride in his new mode of transport. circa 1920

Olivet House Hotel, Jerusalem
Postcard advertising the Olivet House Hotel, Jerusalem, a first class English family hotel, established 1880, managed by Mrs Landrey. Date: early 20th century

Metropolitan Police Information Room, London
General view of the Metropolitan Police Information Room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers busy taking calls. In the foreground are the Inspectors and Sergeants positions. Date: May 1974

Woman on telephone reporting something suspicious
A woman seen through the front window of her house, speaking on the telephone to report something suspicious, possibly an attempted burglary

Advertisement for Home & Colonial Stores Ltd, 268-270 Edgware Road, London W2, offering Xmas Fare. An apprehensive-looking turkey stands in a snowy village landscape

Metropolitan Police communications room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police communications room, showing three officers sitting at desks on the right. There are several push button telephones

Metropolitan Police telephone operator
A Metropolitan Police telephone operator at the controls, which link him with Police Boxes in the London area. He is wearing a combination microphone and headphones. Date: circa 1930s

Allied soldier on field telephone, WW1
An Allied soldier speaking on a field telephone while sitting at a small table in the open air during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American soldiers on manoeuvres in France, WW1
American soldiers on manoeuvres in France during the First World War. Some of them are using communications equipment. Date: early 1918

Policeman on the Phone
A young policeman makes a telephone call. Date: 1960s

OH REALLY?
Blonde woman on the telephone. Date: 1960s

Woman wearing telephonic fancy dress
A woman wearing telephonic fancy dress. The telephone is balanced on her head, and her closely-fitting dress is made up of draped telephone cables. Date: circa 1895

B. T. Phone Bill
A B.T. (British Telecom) phone bill. Date: 1980s

Lovers chat using a string telephone
A courting couple chat over the telephone, while cupid listens in. The dapper gentleman attributes his robust health to the taking of Enos fruit salt

Three American soldiers near St Mihiel, France, WW1
Three American soldiers using an abandoned German field telephone near St Mihiel, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 1918

David Wright woman with red telephone
Elegant woman in a low-cut yellow dress, speaking on a red telephone. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Copenhagen Phone Exchang
Telefonselskabets Centralbureau - the central telephone exchange, Copenhagen - note the operator with the long plaits ! Date: 1888

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