[Phil G4SPZ]

A couple of really good museums that I don’t recall being mentioned - probably because they aren’t radio or electronics based - are the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings in Bromsgrove, which contains a large collection of historic telephone kiosks and working telephones, and Kidderminster Railway Museum, which amongst the railway artefacts houses a fully-working Strowger exchange and many working telephones that visitors can use.

It is always amusing watching young people trying to use a dial telephone. My 7-year-old granddaughter brought the house down when she lifted the receiver, listened to the dialling tone, and asked loudly, “What’s that farting sound?”