Burnley Telephone Exchange

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iBase ID

266894

Reference identifier

EBU20141107010

Title

Burnley Telephone Exchange

Place

Burnley

Personal names

Miss Butterfield

General notes

Burnley's first telephone exchange opened on Hargreaves's Street in 1881. This new form of communication was taken up by about 40 businesses and the local fire brigade. By the early 1920's communication by phone was becoming essential and this new exchange (photographed here in 1953) was set up inside the General Post Office. The chief supervisor at the time the picture was taken was a Miss Butterfield (right hand side - stood up).

By the 1960's automatic telephone exchanges were beginning to take over from the old manual system. A new automatic exchange was built on Brown Street and operations moved there in 1965.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

25.3 x 20.3

Year of image

1953

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Locator

N63: Burnley's Telephone Exchange

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