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Roland Perry wrote:
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?

Open land to the back of the house which was the last in the street. Pole
in the corner between the end of our garden and those at right angles in
the next street. All the houses in our street (built in the 1930s) had
phone lines entering the back of the house, as did others surrounding this
bit of open space.

But I've seen telephone poles at the back of houses in London too. For
example, if you had rear access to a garden either side of a service road,
it could be easier to run the main telephone cable down that than in the
road at the front of the house.

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