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The "have a look at this!" thread II

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  • TBagpuss
    TBagpuss Posts: 11,203 Forumite
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    Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »
    Perfect house to shoot a horror film...https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72108337.html

    With a better colour scheme and getting rid of the mirror on the toilet seat it could be really nice!
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  • TBagpuss
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    fairy_lights wrote: »
    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72372649.html
    Lightshades! Jam! Jam! Lightshades! Did I tell you about my jam? Did I show you my Lightshades?

    The estate agent was obviously so taken with the jam that they nicked a jar. If you look carefully there are 6 jars in most of the picks, but only 5 in a couple of them...
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  • lincroft1710
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    fairy_lights wrote: »
    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72372649.html
    Lightshades! Jam! Jam! Lightshades! Did I tell you about my jam? Did I show you my Lightshades?

    The 70 pictures hopelessly fail to tell the whole story. But the floor plan does! It's a poor layout with narrow rooms!

    Actually the photos of the jars of jam, old suitcases and wellingtons have persuaded me to travel 250 miles to view this house as these are just the features I would be looking for in a house!
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  • NaughtiusMaximus
    NaughtiusMaximus Posts: 2,832 Forumite
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    lincroft1710 wrote: »
    The 70 pictures hopelessly fail to tell the whole story. But the floor plan does! It's a poor layout with narrow rooms!

    Actually the photos of the jars of jam, old suitcases and wellingtons have persuaded me to travel 250 miles to view this house as these are just the features I would be looking for in a house!

    Sod the suitcases, wellies and jam, I want that red Trimphone :D
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,357 Forumite
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    NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »
    Sod the suitcases, wellies and jam, I want that red Trimphone :D

    It's only a naff reproduction one.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RETRO-RED-Trim-Phone-Landline-Push-Dial-Telephone-collectable-WILD-WOLF/153521627752
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  • NaughtiusMaximus
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    It's only a naff reproduction one.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RETRO-RED-Trim-Phone-Landline-Push-Dial-Telephone-collectable-WILD-WOLF/153521627752

    How disappointing :(
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,357 Forumite
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    NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »
    How disappointing :(

    There aren't many original red ones and they may be a little more expensive.

    As well as <clickyclicky> dialling <clickyclicky> extremely <clickyclicky> slowly <clickyclicky> at 10 <clickyclicky> pulses <clickyclicky> per <clickyclicky> second <clickyclicky> loop <clickyclicky> disconnect <clickyclicky> dialling.
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  • StumpyPumpy
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    edited 22 June 2019 at 11:56PM
    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    There aren't many original red ones and they may be a little more expensive.

    As well as <clickyclicky> dialling <clickyclicky> extremely <clickyclicky> slowly <clickyclicky> at 10 <clickyclicky> pulses <clickyclicky> per <clickyclicky> second <clickyclicky> loop <clickyclicky> disconnect <clickyclicky> dialling.
    Ok, so I know that the following is going to sound (and is) incredibly geeky and everything, but... :o that phone isn't an original one either.

    At the very least it is a chimera. The model number on the bottom (pic 3) is 8722G but that is the number for the Snowdon Collection black & grey rotary dial Trimphone. The Snowdon Collection push button Trimphone in two tone red - which the top of the phone is - should be model 8766. So most likely someone has cobbled two phones together to make one. It is possible that BT themselves messed up the bases but as the workings of the two phones were different, rather than just the colour, I think it is unlikely.

    I'm not a phone buff or anything, honestly, I just happen to know about the last (1982 Snowdon) model trimphones. Anyway, I'm now going back to sitting in a darkened room to listen to my collection of late 20th Century ring tone LPs. :cool:

    Also, just noticed that the paper number insert is wrong too - when that model of phone was released (1982), the GPO had been rebranded as British Telecom for 2 years.

    SP
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  • ukmaggie45
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    Concerning trim phones... Within about an hour of following the links given to look at the phones I had an email from eBay offering me deals on similar. :eek: It was the speed of it arriving that rather surprised me.
  • Davesnave
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    ukmaggie45 wrote: »
    Concerning trim phones... Within about an hour of following the links given to look at the phones I had an email from eBay offering me deals on similar. :eek: It was the speed of it arriving that rather surprised me.
    Happens all the time unless you take steps to block tracking etc, but houses aren't like that. I'm still getting weekly persuader emails from Yopa, who want me to let them value our house in BA1....which we left over 10 years ago.
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