earliest commercial telephone in Britain

thing and telephone

Aged unknown

Commemorated on 1 plaque

The site of the earliest commercial telephone in Britain, assembled by Alfred Cunnington in 1878 to connect his wine merchant's business with his home at Southgate House, Devizes. The original apparatus can be seen in the Local History Gallery at Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes.

St John's Street, Devizes, United Kingdom where it sited (1878)