‘The Latest Phone’: What Our Ancestors Made Of The First Telephone Boxes

In the 1920s, hundreds of peculiar cream-coloured cubicles with eye-catching red doors first appeared on British pavements. My article ‘Verminous Receptacles’ on the practical, humorous and criminal ways in which the public reacted to so-called ‘telephone cabinets’ is out today in Discover Your Ancestors periodical online!

http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk (Read by subscription only)

  

Family History Research Services.

Buy My Books

About Ruth A. Symes

Websites Useful For UK Family History

Magazines

Discover Your Ancestors (online periodical): https://discoveryourancestors.co.uk/
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine: https://www.family-tree.co.uk/
Family Tree Magazine UK : https://www.family-tree.co.uk/

Commercial Genealogy Sites

Find My Past: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
The Genealogist: https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/
Ancestry UK: https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/

Newspapers British Newspaper Archive: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.com/