A marvellous, solid, heavy and slightly mysterious telephone with a big loudspeaker on the front and connections on the back that look like something from a battleship (what is it?). One of my favourite old gadgets (bought, like all the others, from the place old things go to die: Brick Lane market).
In which I try, after 25 years of blogging, to drop my ironic stance a bit.
what do all the knobs and dials say? Isn’t it the sort of thing that lifeboat men or MI5 use?