Telephones Collection

Pin-up calendar girl by David Wright, 1950
A woman with her red hair swept up in a bun, poses elegantly in some diaphanous lingerie as she speaks on a red telephone. Date: 1950

Tatler front cover, 9 March 1960
Front 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 telephone
It pays to telephone ! Remember - a telephone in your home saves you time, money, and worry, and minimises inconvenience, anxiety, and loneliness

Rail Operations Centre
A British Rail operations and track maintenance centre

Transatlantic communications: telephoning London to New York
How 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

Example of a woman dialling 999 for the emergency services in a red telephone booth

A long line of telephone switchboards with female operators

1934 G. P. O telephone advertisement
Advertisement 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

Telephone / Bell & Gray
An imaginary conversation between Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, using their own telephone devices

Woman On the Phone Date: 1916

Woman on the telephone, postcard
" Hello, are you there?" An early example of cold calling by telemarketers

Early telephones, Verity Electrical Supplies
Early telephones from Verity Electrical Supplies, Aston, Birmingham. 1903

Sporting Curiosities
Golfers in North Carolina wagering that they won't be put off their game when accompanied by musicians and dancing caddies

Image of a woman mid-phone conversation, taken from a lifestyle article about living alone. Date: 1954

Edison Telephones and Phonographs, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Edison Telephones and Phonographs, United States Section of Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Advert, W Blenheim & Co, electrical engineers, Egham, Surrey
Advert for W Blenheim & Co, electrical engineers, Egham, Surrey - electric telephones and apparatus. Date: 1893

British soldiers on field telephones, WW1
British soldiers on field telephones in a concrete dugout, transmitting orders for battery ranges, Western Front, First World War. 1914-1918

AR1 Aircraft-Radio Receiver installed in a light aircraft
AR1 Aircraft-Radio Receiver installed in a light, privately-owned aircraft. It could be used to receive weather reports and navigational warnings

Fairey Firefly aeroplane in flight. Date: circa 1930s

Gipsy Moth aeroplane G-EBYH. Date: circa 1930s

Imperial Airways Armstrong-Whitworth AW15 Atalanta plane
Imperial Airways Armstrong-Whitworth AW15 Atalanta type airliner, G-ABPI, used by the Royal Mail. Date: circa 1930s

Tiger Moth aeroplane G-ABTB, used for research
Tiger Moth aeroplane G-ABTB, used for experimental and research work by STC (Standard Telephones and Cables Limited). Date: circa 1930s

Advert for Telephone Development Association 1929
Less than a crown a week, to rent a telephone, Paying nothing to be installed and pay nothing for calls or to receive. Date: 1929

Advert for Stellite portable room to room telephone 1905
British-made portable telephone for your home, easy to self-fit and without spoiling the look of your room, can be used to call the servants when you are still in bed. Date: 1905

Nurse on Telephone Date: 1948

Woman Amazed by Phone Date: 1948

Telephone Technician

BELLS TELEPHONE / BOSTON
Bells Salem-Boston demonstration. Date: late 19th century

BELLS PHOTOPHONE / C19TH
Bells photophone. Date: late 19th century

Control room of Short S14 Sarafand, S1589, containing the switchboard for the electricity supply, telephones and engine instruments

Cat telephone cosy from Selfridges, 1919
Ideas for Christmas gifts from Selfridges. This quaint conceit is a telephone cosy in the shape of a cat. Everyone needs one of these in their life. Date: 1919

The watchroom of Southwark Fire Station, London. Although this had a telephone switchboard serving the adjacent headquarters of the Brigade

Repeating Pattern - Old style telephones - man and woman. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, Southwark
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

Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service using a telephone, WW2
Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service using a telephone

London Fire Brigade street fire alarm and telephone point
In 1904 the Metropolitan Fire Brigade changed its name to the London Fire Brigade. Less than one year later it was possible for crews to call in to Southwark Headquarters from a remote point

Telephone Boxes / Malta
Two British red telephone boxes at Valletta, kitted out with internet telephones

Bell / Tainter / Photophone
Bell and Tainters photophone

The Right Way to Speak to Maids - TMC house telephones
Advertisement for TMC House Telephones, particularly useful when your house is so vast you need to dole out instructions to the servants from another wing. Date: 1923

John Ericsson (Profile
JOHN ERICSSON Swedish-American inventor whose achievements ranged from telephones to warships. Date: 1803 - 1889

John Ericsson (Adlard)
JOHN ERICSSON Swedish-American inventor whose achievements ranged from telephones to warships. with his autograph, 1865 Date: 1803 - 1889

TELEPHONE TALKIE
An engineer testing the latest telephones, due to be shown at the Physical Societys Annual exhibition of scientific instruments at Imperial College, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Paris Apartments
This apartment house in Paris has an engine in the basement which provides power for electric light, doorbells, telephones and a lift. Date: 1885

The Kiss Call by Fred Thomson
Promotional postcard for The Kiss Call by Fred Thomson from Le Coup de Telephone, a farce, by Paul Gavault and Georges Beer; music Ivan Caryll. First produced at the Gaiety Theatre, 8th October 1919

French military transmitting messages
Relays of French military soldiers continuously day and night operating the telephone exchange somewhere in the Somme district. Date: 1916

Dial 999 display in an LFB exhibition
A Dial 999 display in a London Fire Brigade exhibition with details on either side of the services available

Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box, London
Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box near the Royal Festival Hall on Londons South Bank, used for a fire service exhibition. Date: 1957

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