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Old 3rd Apr 2020, 2:06 pm   #41
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Old 3rd Apr 2020, 3:48 pm   #43
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Here is a version that doesn't involve hanging from the rafters.

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Something a bit different on the wall outside my under-stairs toilet/shower room.
I rescued the sign from work when a machine was scrapped and the room refurbished.
I comes on when the light is switched on warning other household members that it's in use. There is also a lock on the door !
That seems quite an appropriate message for the situation!
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As I child I can remember seeing lamp units in large department stores, comprising a row of about six different coloured bulbs. If a particular shop assistant were needed, their specific pattern of lights could be lit, for example, "red-and-blue" could mean "Mr Jones", or "yellow,white and green" "Miss Smith". Six bulbs in any combination in groups of one to six could provide quite a large number of permutations,

Woolworths in Southport had those. I remember a friend who did Saturday work there explaining what the various combinations of lights signified. The store was refurbished to remove items such as the large rectangular art deco clocks and the gas light fittings but the lights remained on the walls painted over until the store finally closed.

The headmaster at my grammar school had a set outside his office door. They were just coloured without any explanation and the red one was on for a great deal of time. They were in a very old looking polished wooden box rather like the ones used for pre-war GPO bellsets. Thinking about it I wonder whether they had been supplied by the GPO when phones were first installed in the school which was built in the early part of the 20th century
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I took a photo of these in a Sheffield antiques shop in June 2019. I am going into town tomorrow. If they are still there (!) do you want them ?
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Just spotted your message about the headmasters indicators! Missed it at the time.
Don’t suppose they were still available?
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I picked up two signs many years ago but sadly no controller. They're in my pile of things I like but have no idea what I'll ever do with.
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I remember a set like the one on the right of the second picture. Exactly the same as that outside the Headmaster's office at primary school forty years back. He didn't have his telephones on his desk but on a coffee table several feet from his desk, meaning he almost always had to get up to answer the phone. Lovely chap but mildly eccentric.
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