About Us:

Verulam Telephone is a very small hobby business that specializes in the obsolete, the unobtainable and the ridiculous.  Our workshop is co-located with Mrs. Clifford's Computer Repair, who does much the same thing, only with laptops, desktops and other more leading-edge digital devices.  Please note: we do not service cellular telephones.  But we will recycle them, with dignity. 

Sir Francis Bacon was the first Baron Verulam, also Viscount Saint Alban. But our name harks back to the 1831 Ontario township honouring James Walter Grimston, Earl of Verulam and brother-in-law of Lord Liverpool who was at the time, prime minister of England and we preserve our heritage by perpetuating the name.  Like ancient townships, telephone equipment was at one time made to last down through the ages.  In fact, millions of years from now, archeologists will excavate sites and discover still-working Nortel equipment that might only need to be powered up so that they can listen in awe and wonder at the technological advancements that the 20th century made to improve the lot of humankind. 

We love a challenge.  Is your wiring closet a veritable museum or an esoteric wall-hanging scrapyard?  Do your desk-sets predate Tamagotchi?  We can sort out the spaghetti, unravel the layers of technology, locate weird parts, program bizarre operating systems and keep your comfortable and familiar telephone system in working order.  And when you finally tire of it all or decide to surrender to the vagaries of VoIP or Cellular service, we can pull it all down, clear up the wall space for something useful and responsibly recycle it for you.