31. Peter Clarke 51.45 Call boxes We used call boxes if we wanted to contact the station directly. We could phone up and just phone into the stations. ….. 52.20 We still had this antiquated system every evening you had to go round the boxes on your beat and then contact the control room, you would say you were checking the box and they would flash the light on the top of the box and then you would say it was all working . 53.05 They could flash the light in a certain call box but when I joined they didn’t do that, what would happen is they would call onto the radio, and say can you call into the station and then you’d find a call box and call it
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