Hello again!

And having to wait for someone to be found to plug into your position when you needed a wee, and being expected to get down 3 flights of stairs and back in a couple of minutes!

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callgirl I was a GPO telephonist on the old type of exchange , Macclesfield 1966 -68 . I loved the old type switchboards with the long cords and jack plugs which snapped back into there holders . The supervisors were absolute horrors and walked at the back of you making sure you weren`t slacking .

OGM !!

....and hello from me callgirl1, wishing you good times to come (sorry I can't add to the above except to add to the collection of saucy names: years ago when I worked as a volunteer for the FPA we were known as 'lay-workers'!)

I loved the job Baubles, with the then GPO, before the days of BT, it was just the supervisor I didn`t like, not many did.

Random O there!

Nice to see you back callgirl1
You've reminded me of the times when I was occasionally required to relieve the telephonist in my civil service office for short periods. It was a task I didn't look forward to as the 'eyeballs in the sky' switchboard filled me with horror. I dread to think how many calls came to an abrupt end as I pulled the cable and like as not crossed wires with the wrong person. O
You would have been distinctly unimpressed!

Do you mean the old manual exchange switchboards Pogs? I only ever worked on them when relieving at other exchanges whilst they were converting to automatic. Rochdale was already automatic when I started there. I was sent out to Bolton, Rossendale, Todmorden (complete with ghost) and Bacup. Got quite a few electric shocks from the old manual boards as well.

callgirl

Leicester, Free Lane Exchange. I loved the old Dolls Eye Switchboard, I bet you did too!

Welcome back

"holdtheline"

It was either callgirl or hellogirl, both sound a bit saucy I suppose, but trust you Marelli, lol!

Good to see you back callgirl . Hope GN will bring you a bit if

Welcome back, number, under your new identity.

marelli, thought it was just me .

well, I nearly ignored it thinking that .....

but don't be put off, we know you now!

Glad to see you back, hope you'll keep chatting call girl

No not the only one Marelli

Hi number, sorry callgirl1! Welcome back

as an aside, two of the Tiller Girls were pupils at my old school (before my time)

callgirl1, good to see you back on the forum! It'll be good for you, too, to be able to chat with your Gransmates again.
Am I the only one who finds your new name rather saucy.... ?
xx

Never Kitty! I was able to read all the posts, but wasn`t able to post myself, or pick up pms, so if anyone has pm`d me during the last week and a half, I won`t have got them.

Hi number, I've been hoping you wouldn't abandon us!

What exchange did you work on Pogs? I was at Rochdale from 1959 till 1964.

Hi number.

I take it you were a 'Call Girl' like myself, a telephonist?

Keep posting.

Welcome back number callgirl1