Where did you keep your landline in your childhood home?

[BeCraftyFatball]

On a table By the couch

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We would answer and say
Two, four, eight, double ow, hello
😂

On a small table in the hall, then we got a cordless one which was much better as we could take it to our rooms to talk to friends and boys.

We had a few. One in the study on the desk, one in the hallway on a little table and another in the living room with a little table and armchair in the corner.

In the hallway on a small wooden table - don’t know if it was specifically a telephone table.
There wasn’t a chair, you either stood up or sat on the floor.
My parents address book was on the table next to the phone. It had a hard outer case with the alphabet on the front and had little metal slide buttons next to each letter - when you slid them in and pushed at the same time, the book would fly open to the corresponding letter.
I spent all my youthful phone conversations fiddling incessantly with the address book and making it flip open and click shut over and over.

on a three sided cabinet/cover my dad had made to cover the electric and gas meters in the corner of the front room no you won’t be able to get into my accounts with that information but on the wall in our subsequent homes ☎️

I dont know what tbe area is called, but it's between the front door and inner door, on a telephone shelf, we had one in the kitchen on the wall and one at the bottom of the stairs.

We had a corner suite, like 2 sofas joined together by a table thing that was upholstered in the same brown and orange fabric as the sofas but with a wooden top part and the green rotary phone went on there. When we moved house we had a push button corded phone mounted on the wall at the bottom of the stairs

Apparently it was in the hall until on one occasion I was really poorly and mum and dad had spent ages trying to get me to sleep. I’d just fallen asleep when the telephone rang in the hall and woke me up. Once they’d finished cursing they arranged for it to be moved to the lounge so it never happened again.

In the hallway, initially on a little shelf above the paraffin heater that had a space underneath for the phone book and yellow pages (and a special note pad and pen next to it for taking notes). You stretched the cord and sat on the bottom stair.

When it changed from a rotary phone to a cordless phone, it was screwed to the wall. But the special shelf remained.

In the living room, on the coffee table which was pushed against a wall. We very rarely used it, because there was nowhere we could go for a private chat!

On a shelf at the bottom of the stairs.

@pambeesleyhalpert - yes, I can still remember mine too!

In the same place it was fifty year ago, at the bottom of the hall, next to lounge door, the only difference is it sits on a nice bookcase now and it’s a walk about. I think the original was a blue round dial one, then a cream push button one.

its still the same number but an 0 got added and later a 1

Kitchen early 80s.

In the hall on the window sill. You could stretch the curly wire to sit on the stairs and talk. It was blimmin cold though; no heating.

That’s how my grandparents answered the phone, so sweet. I’d say, hello who’s speaking please? I used to love answering the phone as a kid 😂

We didn’t have a phone, we had to use the phone box down the street. My mum finally got one after I left home, probably in about 1988. It was kept in the living room.

On a table next to the door with a chair. But then my parents gave in and got the line extended up to mine and my sisters bedroom. It was great having our own line but you couldn't use it at the same time as downstairs (you could listen in), or if someone was on the Internet! That's a sound you probably won't hear ever again!.

Haha, I used to do my parent's heads in by tying up the phone using dial up internet.

In a hallway next to the living room. There was a small table and a single sofa so parents used to sit on a sofa while using it.

I was usually sitting on the floor in the corner behind living room door (I could talking for hours 🤔)

In the living room near the sofa and next to my mum and dad’s bed. We had trimphones, which were fancy as heck imo

First one, the original GPO one, in the best room, on a windowsill

The bell was out in the hall, so we could all hear it ringing

Second, extension phone, was in the kitchen serving hatch, so that we could all answer it for dad's business

Exactly the same way n my house!!

Ours was black

In the hall, fixed to the wall.

Hallway (just inside the front door) on a table, but it was attached to the kitchen wall when I was a baby.