Telephone renter, 1976 : Miss Ann Smith

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I went to the local grammar school in Wassop on Derne and then from there to Newcastle University. Now when I first started at Newcastle I would say in a letter to my mother be at Aunty Alice's on a certain night and I'll ring her and speak to you and it were then me dad who said well instead of going down to Alice's why don't we have one so it was a big novelty, and then you get people coming to our house to use the phone. I can remember when I was sat in the living room and if somebody rang that phone and if me dad were sat on the settee and he perhaps reading his paper and if he were sort of lolling on one side he'd straighten himself up and he'd put his hair down and say phone and he would never answer it but he'd send either me or me mother to go and answer it but he would straighten his hair as though they could see 'im.