Coming from the days of Pounds, Shillings and Pence, receiving a telephone call used to involve a trip to the house next door, who were fortunate enough to have their own telephone.

Then, some time in the 1970′s my parents rented their very own bright red phone.

Mobile communication was still quite some way off. In March 1986 my new Mazda 2200 panel van was fitted with one of the earliest mobile ‘phones, if you can count an in–vehicle unit as a mobile ‘phone, the aerial location was measured exactly, dead center of the roof and even then reception was patchy to say the least.

Moving on just a few years, my next and first truly mobile ‘phone was commonly known as a brick, it was larger than a brick and weighed probably twice that of a brick, but it was the business tool of the time. I still have the ‘phone, why I’ve kept it I have no idea.