We took his cell phone off him because he was being a scrote. I didn't realise he'd turn into a 13 year old girl from 1994 in the process though

Ours used to be on the wall near the front door as well. Wonder how that became a common place for it?

Instagram?

I can remember a US comedy back in the 70's(?) and where the family had the phone in the kitchen, but it had a massive long curlycord so the kids could take it to sit at the bottom of the stairs while they were talking....I can remember thinking "how great it would be, if only........"

Ours was on a table just inside the front door...I suspect it was a logistics thing....that was the easiest/closest place to drill through? But it made sense, because it was also at the bottom of the stairs, so it was probably the most central part of the house to reach from anywhere.

That sounds like Roseanne. Except that was from the 80s and 90s,

It was where the wire came into the house, and extra feet of wire was expensive. Back then the phone network was a government monopoly too, so you got a phone when and where the government said you could have a phone!

Yes, all of these. ..... If we were upstairs, we'd come leaping down the stairs when the phone rang!

FWIW, ours was also in the hallway, by the front door, in our first house. A 70s GPO Trimphone, as far as I remember. Then in the new house it was hanging up in the kitchen, very close to, and in sight of, the front door. Can't remember the type of phone but the newsroom phones in Drop The Dead Donkey had exactly the same ring, which was fun.

No my mum's gone all fancy and got herself a cordless phone. Such extravagance. It probably has caller ID as well, as if 1471 wasn't good enough ...

We still had one phone in the hall before we moved over here.

It may have crept into the 80's, but its not Roseanne I'm thinking of....this was more happy days/70's show style....apple-pie-baking-mom with teenage kids...

Oh, maybe the Brady Bunch or something.

Roseanne was the one I remember having the massive long cord on the phone. I think it was common out here at the time though.

And answer it with "<name of town> 538"!!
By the time we moved, we had gone to 5538, then 75538, then they started taking extra numbers on the area code till we had grown to 10 digits....

that's why America was cool...

Coulda been the Brady Bunch...certainly more of that ilk than Roseanne

We had a phone upstairs and downstairs in the 70s and 80s. The one downstairs could pretty much reach every room down there and the one upstairs could go into all of the 3 bedrooms. Of course, one of the bedrooms was on the opposite side of the stairs so decapitations were commonplace.

All civilized countries need a phone system which uses 1 or 0 + 10 digits!