I heard yesterday that they had switched off all landlines here in England. Now I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure what it means...

Hi Woodsy, I think these qualify as phones.  have you got any of them readers? Will O. UK

All I've got to offer is this. A scratchbuild I made of a scanner used by the sixth Doctor. I made it from a Mettoy walkie talkie toy. P...

The common Johnny Seven phone set, but the nicer box art. The Jostar / Cowan de Groot Disney phone set … made in Yugoslavia . and finally...

Woodsy, Regarding your post about toy phones: this Flintstones phone, made by Empire, currently resides in my collection. From The Town ...

 I had one if these as a kid I reckon. A toy payphone. We had lodgers at our home in the Sixties. They worked for the GPO or GTO, not sure w...

Preparing for painters coming to Moonbase I've stripped out some old cables. I did it with a slight tear in my eye as these were telepho...

  This is new to me, the Melody Tel robot toy from the 80's. What do you think? Do telephones and robots go together?

 Aah, the GPO! Plug me into nostalgia please! I loved this toy trimphone I saw on an old auction. Its a Moneybox too! I had many toy phones ...

Grandson Moonbase Junior is just batty about Batman like his batty old Grandad. He's got two ERTL die-cast batmobiles from 1989 and...

This toy caught my eye on the 'Bay so I saved the pic. From 1972 by Tech Toys of Cincinnati and made in HK its a telegraph key ...

Hi, Here is my Pye Pocketphone. It is the same model used by CI5 operatives in The Professionals and by Steed, Purdey and Gamb...

I have one of the earliest mobile phones going I reckon. Not so much a phone. More a brief case full of a huge battery and a phone nestled...

Space and ugly toys just goes together the world over for some reason. Here's another dog's dinner of design. The Nave Espa...

I caught Men in Black again on the box last night. Twenty years old this year! As with all iconic films there's always some...

Having always had an interest in spies, attache and briefcases, I couldn't resist buying this on Ebay. It popped up around 2005, wa...

Continuing the 'phone conversation', here's a table of telling bones, which I've collected over the years. The most exp...

Woodsy's memories and the comments by Tony and Kevin awakened a few memories of my own (thanks for that!). Earliest memories of a...

Hi Woodsy,  All of my adult life I've had an odd passion for collecting a few things from bygone t...