They had both romance and menace. Alfred Hithcock's 1954 film Dial M for Murder was a dark classic. The frothy "Hanging on the Telpehone" by Blondie, is high calibre pure pop.
When I first walked into the newsroom at the Manchester Evening News in September 1987 they were the starting point for scoops, and rendezvous with contacts, and it was an art I had to master to use one with confidence and empathy.
The humble, noisy, landline telephone was as essential to a journalist's toolbox as a notebook and pen. The phone not the email was king and they rang all day.
How can I forget traipsing across Ordsall estate Salford in the late 80s trying three times to find a phone box that worked to file urgently required words to a copytaker sat in the MEN offices on Deansgate.
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