Peel Telephone Exchange
Date(s): November 1972
Creator(s): Manx Press Pictures
Scope & Content: 'Automatic Telephone Exchange Opens.' (Isle of Man Examiner, 10 November 1972, p.2.):
From 1pm on Wednesday all Peel telephone numbers became prefixed with the number 2 as the new fully automatic Subscriber Trunk Dialling Exchange in Albany Road came into operation.
"Everything was very quiet as the second hand on the clock crept towards the hour and about a dozen engineers waited to rip the old exchange plugs out of their sockets and insert the new ones. And as the hour struck on the nearby church clock the place came to life as the change-over was completed.
But although everything seemed to go like clockwork it was quite obvious that a lot of preparation and gear oiling had gone into making Peel S.T.D."
This Is Winter exhibition (House of Manannan, Peel, 5 October 2019-1 March 2020).
Language: eng
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/13633/1/1972/844/1