Connection: Like the Hull owned phone box mentioned earlier, many were damaged by proto-type vandals, mainly smashed lights so you often couldn't see inside the kiosk after dark. After dusk there was "A whole lot of shakin going on" - more descriptive I suppose, "A whole lot of knee trembling going on."
Just for Ron & his prediction... Somewhat more painful... stood up many a time in Hull in those early days :
You're most likely right there B&AG - been a long time for my "feeble" memory for certain facts. I do remember something called "Teledisk" though. I'll need to do a bit of digging mind ! Do you remember "tapping outthe digits" on the receiver in order to get a free call ? Very handy for long distance calls.
UK's fist Eurovision Song Entry, Hull's own Patrica Bredin. The first ever song sung in English at the Eurovision. At 1:52, this was for a long time the shortest performance in the history of the contest
As it happens TC, I am a telephone engineer of 41 years service. the tapping out of the digits was common place to those in the know. The type of signalling to the exchange in those days was called Loop Disconnect Pulse Dialling. Each time you hit the switch hooks you sent a signal to the exchange. 1 hit sent a digit 1 and so on up to 10 hits for a 0. Later types of dialling became MF4 signalling or tone dialling known as Multiple Frequency Dialling.
Great stuff - thanks. My dad was a radio operator in the Merch during & after WW2, so I probably picked up the "technique" of tapping from him - or maybe one of his mates !
