Wonderful video by Gerard McGinley (who worked in Telecom himself) taken on the occasion of the closing of the old manual telephone exchange in Letterkenny on 1/4/1987. The exchange was in operation from 1959 and was the main switching exchange in Co Donegal routing local calls and trunk calls out of Donegal to Northern Ireland and Internationally. The new automatic exchange programme heralded it's demise. There are many familiar faces in this video of staff who worked for Telecom Eireann (now eir) and many staff who returned for the day. Sadly many of them have now gone to their eternal reward. May they Rest In Peace.
1 май 2023
