The telephone switchboard
Acc. 2019.006.9
Main Street · main floor
Run by two sisters for 31 years.
Ruth and Ada McAuley connected every call in Marrick from the back of the hardware store until dial phones came in 1962.
The families in this story.
In the archives
1931 · photo
Marrick School, Grades 3 and 4
Eighteen children and Miss Carrow. Eight faces still unnamed.
about 1945 · photo
Ruth and Ada McAuley at the switchboard
In the back room of the hardware store.
1962 · newspaper
Marrick Mercury: Dial phones arrive, sisters say goodbye
Front page, 10 October 1962. Ruth and Ada McAuley's last day.
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It's in Main Street, on the main floor. Ask at the counter and we'll tell you more about it.
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