Date:1960 - 1965 (c.)
Description:Engineers in the test room at Castlegate Telephone Exchange, Eastgate Street. From left to right: Reg Woolley, Roy Daniels and Ron Davies. Their job was to test telephone customers' lines and locate faults. The record card for each customer's line was kept in the circular drum to the right of the picture. Stafford telephone exchange was moved to South Walls in the late 1990's, after which the Castlegate Exchange was converted for housing.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
The building under construction is the Borough Hall, completed in 1877. Here work ...
This former dye house is now part of The Colonnades shopping centre on Eastgate ...
The Castle Inn on Eastgate Street, demolished in the 1960s. The site was redeveloped ...
The white building on the corner of Pitcher Bank is the Shrewsbury Arms.
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Image courtesy of: Tavernor, Ian
Donor ref:I. Tavernor No., PT00558, img: 3132 (18/3440)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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