Posted by Claire on May 01, 2007 at 23:54:26 from 71.90.136.29 user Claire_Morgan.
In Reply to: Re: Changes in Technologies posted by Alan Hakim on April 30, 2007 at 17:10:41:
Alan wrote, "I suspect AR was visualising a small exchange in the back of Rio village Post Office, and wasn't concerned with the details we are now discussing".
Well, maybe, given the number 75. Since much of the rest of the lake geography resembles WIndermere, and the D's visit the town at the head of the lake in PM, perhaps the operator was at Ambleside, since that is the closest town. Does anyone have a good guess as to how many telephones there would have been in those days around the lake?
Of course, much of the rest of the geography is that of Coniston, and there was only one town there, by coincidence about where Beckfoot would be. Would there have been about 75 or more telephones in the village of Conniston and around that lake?
Knowing what we do of the location of the real places in AR's composite lake, one can't help but wonder which memories he was drawing on when he used a number like 75.