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Re: Telephone Exchange Closures
Excoriator
4th Apr 2026 9:42pm
I had a friend who worked in the Post Office Research centre in Dollis Hill in london. He was in one of the big London exchanges one evening doing some experimental work there.
At the time the equipment was all Strowger - relays and selectors all of which are in frequent motion and made exchanges - especially big ones very noisy places. You have to shout to make yourself heard in some parts.
Suddenly, he said the more or less constant noise increased, rose to crescendo, and then went completely silent. Every line was in use and there was no switching going on. There was panic with people running about trying to work out what had happened, but then the news trickled through that President Kenedy had been shot.
It seemed that everyone's first reaction to the news was to pick up a telephone and ask a friend if they'd heard the news overloading the exchange. He reported that it took about an hour for the traffic to revert to its normal level of noise.
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