In message , at 00:51:35 on Sun, 15 Nov
2020, "Dave Plowman (News)" remarked:
In article
,
Tim+ wrote:
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 I€˜ve 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.

We had ours installed in the early 50s, Party line. The overhead cables
came in at the back of the house.

Very unusual setup. What did the outside cable soar over - your back
garden and someone else's and their front garden, to a pole in the next
street?

Internal wiring took it to the hall.

At least that's a conventional place to install it.
--
Roland Perry