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    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    Yes , I went to a few union meetings there too. Am I correct in thinking they actually had a bar in there or is my memory failing me?
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    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    I worked as an engineer at Rubery manual exchange during its conversion to automatic exchange. I tested the lines as the phones were changed to dialling type( 706 and 746 in think),and I remember seeing quite a few candlestick phones being thrown in a pile into an old room at the back of the...
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    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    I joined gpo in 1958 and did y2yc apprenticeship. The training school was at Shirley, and did I think Youths A and B courses Went on to Exchange Construction in 1960 and spent my time as C.O W 's after promotion to TO. Later got promoted to Level 1, then transferred to the Region. Worked there...
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