Where did you keep your landline in your childhood home?

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On a table By the couch

In the hallway, on a table with a chair beside it. Then a second line was added in my mother's office.

In the hall, on top of a built in cupboard in an alcove. (It was a biggish reception hall, not a corridor type hallway).

In the hallway, on a little corner ledge. You could sit on the stairs to use it.

Then the cordless was supposed to be in the front room, but was never on the base unit when you needed it.

In the hall on a telephone table that had an inbuilt seat. My sister and I used to sit at the top of the stairs and earwig when our mum was on the phone.

Just inside the living room, so you could pull it out into the hall and sit on the stairs to talk if you wanted to talk to a BOY.

On similar to this in the hall. The telephone directories went underneath it.

We didn’t have a phone.

In the hall on the telephone table - it had a mustard coloured upholstered seat on one side and a wooden side for phone with under shelf for the phone book. Not seen one in years!

In the ( cold ) dining room, on a telephone table
( one of these pieces of furniture bought in these days so that you could sit and have the phone beside you and the telephone directories were on a shelf in the table )

My mother crocheted a cover for the padded cushion on the seat after having it for a few years.

Many many years later they moved house, I bought them a new much more modern telephone table and carried it on a train from London Euston to Glasgow :)
they were very happy they were able to take their telephone number with them as they only moved a mile or so away.

On the sideboard beside the telly in the living room. If the phone rang you turned the TV down and everyone sat there listening in to the conversation. There would be lots of 'hurry up' hand signals from the family if something good was on. There was no privacy at all, especially as we had a party line with our neighbours and there would be a 'ting' noise on the other phone alerting them to the fact it was time to pick up their phone and eavesdrop your conversation.

In the hallway (a rotary dial one) on a deep windowsill where you could sit on the stairs if necessary.
Then when we moved house we had a “modern” phone mounted on the wall in the kitchen and an extension upstairs in my parents bedroom

We had three! One in the kitchen, one in the living room, and one in my parents’ bedroom. We also had a repeater bell in the hall. (my dad’s deaf.)

Oh! Besides the phone was a plastic case with a fake phone dial that was the address/telephone number book. If you wanted Grandma's phone number you dialed GHI and the case would open showing the phone number of everyone with those initials written in by my mum.

In the hallway, by the front door, on a pine dining table (it was a huge hallway!) with a wooden chair beside it. Then when we moved to cordless, there was one in the hall, one in the office, one in the kitchen and one in my dad’s workshop, adjacent to the main house. No excuse to miss a call!

This is so weird, I was having a conversation with an elderly friend today about landlines and she mentioned a 'party line' - I'd never heard of one before!

Hallway, near the front door

It was in the hall on a half moon table (1960’s). The shelf underneath held a large phone directory and a copy of the yellow pages.

We had a party line with the family next door as it was cheaper to share the phone line than have your own. If you lifted the phone you’d hope to hear a dialling tone. If you heard your neighbour in the middle of a call you’d apologise and quickly hang up.

We had this exact one . I feel a bit sad as we lost our mum earlier this year and it's one of the few things we haven't cleared out of her house yet.

On a shelf in the hall. There was nowhere to sit but then nobody had long conversations as it was so expensive.

On the telephone table in the hallway. I still call it a telephone table now… I’ve recently learnt it’s called a console 😂

Does anyone remember their phone numbers? 747643 was mine. Funny how it stays with you all these years later

On the telephone table was next to the door.

We also had that yellow velvet seat pp mentioned.

Next to the dial phone was the phone directory and my mum's phone book which was brown with the dial on for the letters. When you pushed the correct letter that page sprung up.

And the key. The phone was locked at night and when she went out. After they got a horrendous bill because of a member of the household who won't be named.

We only told my mum years later that we could actually over-ride the lock by dialling out in a certain way.
She knew 😂

In the hall on a little shelf, it was handy for sitting on the bottom stair listening to dial a disc.

On a cabinate in the damn hall where everyone could march through and earwig 🙄

On a small table in the hallway, with the Yellow Pages and my mums address book on a shelf underneath.

Then we got a wall mounted one with press buttons and thought we were soooo posh.