Recent content by wendylee

I do remember that area, I walked past it to get to school, I think the fair stopped there sometimes, or am i wrong?:)

Hi Vivienne, no I dont think we were paid different rates, supervisors obviously were though.

It did bring back memories I loved my job . I must admit I loved Telephone house switchboards with the pull out plugs you had to stretch out to connect for the calls rather than the new switch boards which were just small desk type switchboard with switches in front of you.

If I remember correctly the right hand side of they photo is were operators helping other operators from other exchanges connect trunk calls. that they have had problems with. The telephonists on the very left side are helping callers to make local or trunk calls. The Central line telephonists...

I dont have any information but that is really sad, I do hope you can find out more.

I have talked often with Maurice over the last two years and chatted about lots of interesting things, gardening, life in Greece, weather , his love of music and playing in the band, our families and so much more, I feel I knew Maurice although I had never met him, he was a friend and a...

Hi Maurice, stay safe, I am thinking of you, thank you for the update Wendy:)

Hi Maurice, So glad to hear you are ok except for a spilt coffee and no damage. You had one about the same time of day we had ours in Victoria Australia last week, as I told you it was a 5.9 on the scale and it really rocked our house, I firstly thought there was something wrong with me :joy...

Hi, I used to work at Telephone House, Newhall st from 1967 and remember some of the telephone codes, Knowle was 560. I dont know if you are interested but if you go online and google telephonesuk.co.uk and go into Information and the Birmingham history , the full list of the dialling codes...

I had my first covid vax yesterday, (astra zenika) I didnt feel a thing, however feel a bit flu like today, body aches. Hubby goes next Wednesday for his first.

Might they be her pyjamas Nico??:)

Hi A Sparks, we are in Australia and they started vaccinating here on 22nd feb, there has only been 81,000 people vaccinated up to now which seems a little slow... I hope they start to ramp up the vaccinating so we all will all get our covid vaccinations by Winter when covid seems worse. It is...

Yes, unfortunately Dave there have been protest rallies against the vaccines. Sad really....because the more of us who have the covid vaccination that in turn helps protect others too, especially vulnerable people who are unable to have it for whatever reason. Hopefully when the vaccination...

I agree Dave the posts here are very positive, it is good to read your experiences. In Australia our vaccine runout has been slow but will start tomorrow for Aged care and disability workers and residents, frontline health workers, quarantine and border workers. Later in March the general...