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Originally Posted by duncanlowe
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Originally Posted by Pellseinydd
Most of my GPO years were spent deep underground looking after a major hub of the Defence Telecoms Network way west of Manchester.
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Anywhere near Nantwich? |
No. That was a minor place compared with the comms we had. We had an approx. 20 position sleeve control manual board with a couple of hundred lines to various corners of the UK - 24 lines to Whitehall alone plus others to Northern Ireland, Scotland etc. Plus a complex of telegraph equipment - more teleprinters than the rest of the telephone area put together. Hence we were trained on just about everything that the GPO had. We did have a line to the bunker at Nantwich but our location had been built before WW2 in anticipation of the war.