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at 17:52:44 on Sat, 14 Nov 2020, Tim+ remarked:
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.

I think not! Every house Ive ever lived in has had spaghetti wiring
nailed to skirtings, architraves etc, connected to a junction box by the
cable entry point to the house.

That's to fit additional phones, rather than the original one near the
cable entry point!
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Roland Perry