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Description: | Initially the telephone system required callers to speak with an switchboard operator, who could manually connect a call to another line by plugging in a cord. Over time automated systems were introduced, and an intermediary became unnecessary. The Finchley Road exchange operated from 1928 to 1985, and still employed 110 people when it was finally shut. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Hampstead Museum | Rights holder: | Hampstead and Highgate Express | Subjects: | Public services | Temporal: | 1985 | Source: | Burgh House and Hampstead Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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