Party line user : John Graham

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We'd moved to a house at Farnham, and because my wife was expecting a baby soon afterwards, we were allowed to have a telephone and sort of short circuit the very long waiting list. We had to share lines in those days. If after waiting two or three years you were eventually granted a telephone it was often a shared line and you'd lift up the telephone to use it only to find your partner was on it and then you'd have to wait and keep lifting the phone until it was free. It was a very frustrating business.