Communications Collection

The opening of the new telephone exchange at South John Street, Liverpool. Pictured is the room where the switching over from the old to the new takes place. 5th November 1920

Actress Jackie Lane lying in bed naked talking on the telephone March 1959

Alan Wood, The Daily Express war correspondent with the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Seen here typing out his copy for the paper from the safety of a trench. 20th September 1944

Skelton Beakers Club members, Graham Appleyard (left), Ann Scott & Barry Smith, pictured outside their caravan, which is manned 24 hours a day, they have so far contacted 3650 breakers

Huw Edwards, BBC Newsreader pictured in his early days of presenting the BBC Six O clock News. Picture taken 19th August 1999

Jill Ireland actress in telephone booth, March 1955

Actress Jackie Lane lying naked on the bed talking on the phone March 1959

Actress Jean Marsh aged 17 posing witha telephone April 1952

George Best fan club March 1965

Manchester United Players Carlos Satori and Jimmy Rimmer- 21 on the same day February 1969

John Hart receives a message on the ship to shore lifeboat radio in Barry, Wales. 4th March 1970

A Telex machine in use at St Andrews Street Police Station in Cambridge. October 1964

Woman on Phone, New York, USA, June 1984

RADAR equipment used for offensive and defensive purposes. The Radar " Chain Home" station was as one of the first types of radiolocation stations to be erected in the defence of Great

Canadian soldiers on the Italian front during the Second World War. New field telephone device but the same " Old Bill"

British soldiers of General Andersons First Army at work on the telephone system which links up all the various companies of the battalion in the hills of North Africa. Issued: January 1943

Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army reading newspapers to catch up on the latest news from all war fronts and from home in their positions on the Russia Front during the Second World War. July 1941

Vince Prior, Club Secretary, North Tees Breakers Club, which is disbanding due to lack of support, 9th March 1986

David Nicholson, CB Radio enthusiast with his rig and licence, on the day Cleveland breakers were given the all clear to freedom of the airwaves as Citizen Band Radio went legal, 2nd November 1981

Samantha Bunnell (right) and her friend Jillian Carnell, try out a CB Radio, 18th January 1983

A girl telephonist at the main A. R. P. control centre of Liverpool operating her phone
A girl telephonist at the main A.R.P. control centre of Liverpool operating her phone while wearing a gas mask. 13th April 1941

Air Raid Shelter signs seen here in Derby. Circa October 1939

Crowds massed on the steps of Uxbridge Town Hall to hear the proclamation that King George V is now the monarch, following the death of His father, King Edward V11. 6th May 1910

Copies of The Cape Argus are tossed to waiting delivery van in Capetown 4th February 1955

RAF Patrington and Holmpton. Underground telephone exchange. From left reporter Stuart Russell, Capt JD Ford and Wing Cdr Geoffrey Oliver

RAF Patrington - In the Hot Seat sits the man with a hot line to London. Gp Capt JD Ford, master controller, warns of unidentified enemy aircraft

Mrs Norma Whitehouse aged 25, telephonist at Kumficar. Halifax in West Yorkshire. June 1959

Cashier Doreen Bone of Dixons with one of the new legal CB Radios. With legal Citizens Band coming in on the 2 November 1981, the North East has gone crackers over the peoples radio. 31st October 1981

CB Radio buffs Paul Bradwell, alias The Badger, (left) and Joseph Hunt, alias Bluebird II. 2nd August 1983

The robot operator GRACE is coming to the help of telephonists in the Liverpool Trunk Exchange. GRACE, short for Group Routing and Charging Equipment

Printers in the compositors room of King and Hutchings, Uxbridge, Greater London. Circa 1929

Interior view of a Liverpool terraced house showing a woman scrubbing her hands in the basin, Merseyside, 1962

Gillian Kearney former Brookside actress - February 1988

Douglas Hodge actor from TV programme Capitol City, sitting on desk chair talking on the telephone and holding a copy of the Financial Times

George Cole as Arthur Daley and Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann from the television series Minder. July 1988

The Royal Messenger Coach posting pass St Martins in the Field church in Trafalgar Square, London Circa 1963

Manchester United Players Carlos Satori and Jimmy Rimmer- 21 on the same day February 1969

Fireman demonstrates new electronic private circuit system installed in Control Room at Cambridge Fire Station, February 1968

Beryl Warner in the Control Room at Cambridge Fire Station, 3rd March 1986

British telecom hands over a new radio paging system to the Royal National Lifeboat institution, meaning a faster call out time for crews and could save lives

The Control Room at Cambridgeshire Fire Headquarters. October 1964

Control Tower at Abbotsinch Airport, by simply pushing a button any of the controllers can speak to another by direct telephone while at the same time remaining in voice radio contact with

Women of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF) at work in the nerve centre of an Operations Room at an RAF Station in England during the Second World War

Interior of the Sector G Operations Room at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England during the Second World War. The callsigns of fighter squadrons controlled by this Sector can be seen on the wall behind

Christmas airmail being loaded on to a British Flying Boat on its way to British forces in the Middle East during the Second World War. 16th December 1941

A temporary post office assembled in Cardiff. The Lord Mayor and Lord Mayoress (Alderman and Mrs. James Hellyer) are seen inspecting the structure alongside Mr. W.F

Pigeons, recruited into the RAF as a valuable means of communication often become war casualties. In many cases they are shot at by farmers who mistake them for pests

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) on duty at a London Military headquarters during the Second world War. At a London District Military Headquarters, ATS are employed on a variety of jobs

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