Only connect: operator and switchboard
The party line was a shared telephone land line, such as Imogen Thomas's parents had back in the early 1950s in Hertfordshire
My parents had a black Bakelite telephone on its own little table with a convenient chair nearby in the front hall. A new house was being built further down the lane by the well-known runner Harold Abrahams (1899-1978) – of Chariots of Fire fame – and his wife, Sybil. ...
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