On Sunday, 6 October 2019 15:56:23 UTC+1, Andrew wrote:
Some of them also had a telephone.
Only in the hall, on a special low table so you had to bend
down in the gloom of a well-shaded 40 watt bulb to read the
phone book. :-)

Ah, but directory enquiries were free then.

Just as well as it took them quite a while to look up a number

Owain