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Station X · 14th Feb 2019, 1:14 pm

In the 1960's wiring up high rise blocks of flats would have been "old hat". since technicians were well used to wiring up multi storey office blocks.

What I remember most from that time is providing underground cabling etc. to new housing estates which were springing up all over the place. Trenches for ducts and cables would be dug by the developer's contractors, who liaised with Post Office Telephones' Housing Estate Liaison Officers or HELO's.

14th Feb 2019, 1:14 pm	#7
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