When you step into the Connected Earth gallery at Amberley, among the first things you will see is an old post office. From the 1870s to the mid- 1900s, one of the most popular ways to send a long-distance message was the telegram. A telegram worked like an e-mail or text message, but you went to a post office to send it, (or telephoned it in).
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Can you beat our games? Explode equipment to see what's inside, hear the changing sounds of telecommunications, see how telecommunications designs have changed over time or send an e-postacard.
History of telecommunications in the UK to be digitised in New Connections project - BT Archives, Coventry University and The National Archives to put key photographs and documents online. Find out more...
Take a trip down memory lane with extracts of the interviews which have been recorded as part of the Connected Earth oral history programme.
100 years of automatic switching!
In 1912 the GPO installed Britain's first automatic telephone exchange in Epsom.
