Title

Walthamstow Telephone exchange, London, 1910. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Walthamstow Telephone exchange, London, 1910. Female telephonists at the switchboard. On the wall are instructions concerning calls for the fire brigade. The first of the General Post Office's (manual) telephone exchanges opened in London in 1902. The heavy demand for service led to the opening of a second exchange in November 1907.
Museum of London

Date

1910

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A85_201

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,1Mb (1,1Mb) / 16,8in x 12,5in / 5040 x 3755 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings London England female women woman people interior indoors working work job technology communications sitting wire occupation connection century profession inside emergency services control panel lady concept switchboard console telephonist B&W operator analogue MONOCHROME black & white black and white B W 1910s 20th century Museum of London General Post Office GPO telephone exchange TGN Waltham Forest Walthamstow photograph Unknown photograph