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[Varche]

Anyoneremember tapping out free calls?

It worked but our nearest phone box was three miles away!

[Sir Tigger KC]

So those red pissoirs were actually for making phone calls?                 

[Mister Rog]

The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!!

I'm  55 & have only ever seen one phone box with 'push button A & push button B 

Ah, you're only a baby Andy

Those boxes disappeared during the first years of the 60's.  I miss them

Oh come on Lizzie they were a pain in the **** having to top up all the time.

Besides, you can't possible be old enough to remember them 

How kind 

The truth is I do and I loved them. I remember the warmth of the box with the wind and rain, that I had been dragged through by mum, beating against it's sides. The smell of the box was also something special; not urine in those days, but a mixture of paint, cast iron, concrete, leather, and Bakelite. Then there was the satisfactory and rather enjoyable sound of the coins going through when button A was pushed.  If button B had to be pushed it meant another trip to the box later!! Ah the memories!

What a luxury our first home phone was in 1965

Ah yes, those were the days . . . . . . 

I REMEMBER WHEN . . . . .       

[amazonian]

Anyoneremember tapping out free calls?

It worked but our nearest phone box was three miles away!

I remember it well Varche,  made many a call for nowt by tapping the receiver rest, but usually kept the call short for fear of being 'discovered' by the authorities.

Those were the days eh!

    

[Varche]

Simple pleasures unlike today .

Mind you we were frightened of the police and espected them!

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Anyone remember dial a disc ? The world was a simpler place then.

[dbug]

Anyoneremember tapping out free calls?

It worked but our nearest phone box was three miles away!

Remember it well - used that "facility" all the time when I was a kid, mainly to phone home.

[dbug]

Also remember using "Engineer Codes" around the same time to get free calls.

[Ever Ready]

As a child I used to walk past two of the  A & B phone boxes and always had to press the B button in case some flash git had left money in it

Around the same time I used to scan the ground in front of me looking for pennies etc, my dad used to tell me I would get a cric in my neck, never did though

[STEMO]

As a child I used to walk past two of the  A & B phone boxes and always had to press the B button in case some flash git had left money in it

Around the same time I used to scan the ground in front of me looking for pennies etc, my dad used to tell me I would get a cric in my neck, never did though

Was your dad not Scottish?

[powerslinky]

The young do not know what a red phone box that sometimes is in your street actually does.

They think it is a shelter for making calls on a mobile, and know nothing about A and B buttons!!

I'm  55 & have only ever seen one phone box with 'push button A & push button B 

Phased out in mid 60's as I recall . I can remember them when I was about 10. Our gang used to push an old handkerchief up the money return chute , wait for someone to use the box , & if they could not get through , they would try to get their money back 
Strangely the money would not come out . .  . .  we would watch until they had gone & go & retrieve the "Loot".  Nearest I ever got to being a gangster

[Ever Ready]

As a child I used to walk past two of the  A & B phone boxes and always had to press the B button in case some flash git had left money in it

Around the same time I used to scan the ground in front of me looking for pennies etc, my dad used to tell me I would get a cric in my neck, never did though

Was your dad not Scottish?

He was indeed but I was closer to the ground than him

[Doctor Gollum]

Reminds me of a Billy Conolly joke... his dad was so tight, he once dropped a fifty pence coin and it hit him on the back of the head when he went to pick it up