In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:15:35 on Sat, 14 Nov
2020, "Dave Plowman (News)" remarked:
In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:
They do sometimes get installed in the most crazy places. My BT master
socket is in the loft!

They were often installed in the hall, near the front door, which was
apparently regarded as the obvious place to put a sole phone instrument
in a house.

Where the phone was installed makes little difference to where the line
comes into the house.

On the contrary, internal wiring was rare. Phones were positioned close
to the hole in the wall/door|window frame through which the wire came
from outside.

The hallway was a very common place for a phone once. Regardless of where
the line came in. Doesn't take long to run phone cable round skirting
boards and architraves. ;-)

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