HER HONOUR
SHIRLEY ANWYL KC
Retired Circuit Judge
OBJECT This is obviously a telephone, which on its own is not to be regarded as an object of great significance, but it represents to me perhaps the most important thing in my life, namely the maintaining of close contact with people who are and have been essential to my wellbeing. Until I left school, where I was a
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day girl living in an area close to the homes of most of my friends, I almost never used the telephone, The stage at which it started to mean much to me was when I went to university about 800 miles from my family and a long distance from most of my friends. For 6 years I regularly talked on
the phone to my parents and occasionally to my brother. Thereafter, for over 50 Years the telephone has provided live and personal content with my husband and sons when we have had to be apart sometimes for months on end.