Telephone user (using the neighbour's) : Bill Philips

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At that time in 1940, I became acquainted with a girlfriend and in the summer holiday I went up to our old house in London. Next door my neighbour, who happened to be my aunt, she had a telephone. Well the girlfriend lived on the other side of London, so that was my first experience of using the telephone to phone the girlfriend to arrange meetings. I cannot remember ever coming across a public phone that was out of order. We had a phone installed when I started work, I worked for a research organisation gas research board in Poole, and I commuted to Poole from Weymouth each day, so I needed a phone. I remember having to wait and wait to have one installed because there was a waiting list but I did get some priority because of the job I was doing, and so we had a phone installed 1951.