Instructions for use
Select an object to view from the list below. To rotate either click on the rotate icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the image or click and drag within the object window.
Experimental notebook, 1896 - 1897
Early telephone directory
Post Office Telephones advertising material, 1930s
Phonecards, 1990s
National Telephone Company Midland province, staff dinner programme
Liverpool scrapbook
Model vans
Photograph albums, 1911 and 1932
London telephone directories
Bell's Telephone, edited by Kate Field
Victorian marketing
Shareholder register
These eye-catching pieces of ephemera were distributed by the Post Office from the early 1930s to market the telephone to domestic users. At this time the cost of the telephone was falling in real terms, making it more affordable to a wider section of society than the businesses and very wealthy people who had been the majority of customers to that point.