Cablelera 2-Way RJ11 Female AB Manual Data Switch (ZDMNEEA7-2)

so here we are just one small section of the switchboard from Enfield telephone exchange as it was in the manual era it's going on show in the Science Museum to represent Enfield in 1960 I'm one of a team of actor to work at the Science Museum I've been asked to prepare the role of a telephonist from Enfield exchange in 1960 so I've been developing the character based on research so these are three positions then for three operators to sit at you have to keep your elbows to yourself don't you otherwise that's really popular so if I was the operator at this board those would be my subscribers so I'd be speaking to them possibly quite regularly well regular callers who of course would would get to know the voices of the operators the manual switchboard meant that it had this human feel about it of course the supervisors were really quite strict they wanted to make sure that their girls we