Great Yarmouth Telephone Exchange
Working on the exchange
photo supplied by Vanessa Watson
Photograph of Charles Meadows
By Richard Dade
This is Charles Meadows of Great Yarmouth, who worked for the Great Yarmouth telephone exchange in the days of dialling 100 and speaking to the operator, to be asked "which service do you require?"
Charles worked at the telephone exchange for 27 years from 1947 to 1974 doing the night shift 6pm to 8am, anybody else remember those times?
The telephone exchange was above the old Gt Yarmouth Post Office on the corner of Regent Street and the Quay.
Can anybody remember the line of red telephone boxes outside the building?
Asks Vanessa Watson of Martham who provided me with this photograph of her Dad working on the exchange