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A male member of staff pictured sitting at the switchboard at Penzance Telephone Exchange

A male staff member of Penzance Telephone Exchange sitting at the switchboard

A male member of staff sitting at the switchboard at Penzance Telephone Exchange.

Male member of staff at the switchboard at Penzance Telephone Exchange

Beryl Richards (on the right) talking to two men in an office at Penzance Telephone Exchange. There is another man on the left of the picture and a lady sitting in the foreground.

Female staff member at the switchboard at Penzance Telephone Exchange. It must have been cold, as she is wrapped in a sleeping bag! (See also BR.027 and BR.028).

A very cold member of staff at the Telephone Exchange, sitting at the switchboard wrapped in a sleeping bag! (See also BR.026 and BR.028). She is looking at a card and there are Christmas decorations on the wall and cards onto of the switchboard,

Member of staff at the Telephone Exchange sitting at the switchboard, wrapped in a sleeping bag (see also BR.026 and BR.027). It must be around Christmas time as there are cards on top of the switchboard.

Male member of staff sitting at a computer at the Telephone Exchange

Two staff members sitting side by side at the switchboard at the Telephone Exchange

Woman standing by a window looking at a work sheet and holding what appears to be headphones.

Members of staff at the Telephone Exchange

Photograph of the switchboards at the Exchange, with Christmas cards all along the top.

Electrical equipment at the Exchange

Filing cabinets in the Exchange, with scales on the top

Equipment at the Exchange

Bank of meters at the Exchange

Switchboard at the Exchange

A telephone duty chart from the Exchange dated Non Season 1982/3

Sheet showing Rotation of Duties for the period Non Season 1982/83, w/c 25th September 82.
The names on the list are Richards, B., Harry L.M., Tanner W.S., Praed V.W., Harry J.O.B. Roberts J.C. (with a line drawn through it), Green R.E., Waters…