Memories of the 1960s Leeds school which boasted a payphone on the corridor
The new Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Secondary School in Halton Moor boasted the latest in technology when its opened in March 1968.
A telephone, complete with a coinbox and plastic hood, was fixed to a wall on the school corridor for use by pupils and visitors to the school on Halton Moor Avenue in LS9.
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Hide AdHead teacher Joseph Rossiter said the ordinary telephone represented "a monument to co-operation between architect and teacher."
"We recognise that children and parents sometimes need to keep in touch," said Mr Rossiter. "So we asked that a telephone be put there."
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