"They were getting ready for their annual Village Fete and the lady was calling a friend to get the recipe for some tarts to bake. Her little girl had been in a phone box and found out that if you pressed Button B then sometimes money came out (Do you remember the old UK phone boxes?). The Mother therefore told the child that she had to face outwards and keep her hands off the buttons. I heard this story more than 50 years later when I showed the pictures in Pembridge Village Hall and I met the former child. This picture was on the cover of the Sunday Times issue”
~ John Bulmer
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It is hard to imagine sometimes that there was an era before the widespread adoption of cell phones. Those old red phone boxes were a big part of my life growing up in London. In fact they were my first office. I used to leave home early morning everyday with a big, heavy bag of coins and I had a favorite coin box located on Mount Street, in London near a public library and that was my “office”. I used to give out that number for people to call me back to arrange meetings. It got tricky of course when other people were in there using the phone. Can you imagine this ? It got even more difficult when it was pouring with rain and freezing cold in the winter. Oh how times have changed !
This is one of John’s great child images and full of heart.
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