Re: A question about overhead phone-lines.
In 1954, I was 10 years old, living in a village 6 miles south of Birmingham. One of our seasonal games was the making and flying of newspaper kites. There was only one house with a telephone and this had two bare copper wires running across the road between pairs of porclain insulators. If I remember right, getting the tail of the kite wrapped tightly around the two wires resulted in a bell ringing in the house and children runnning away. Is this how they worked then? pete
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