HEAD POST OFFICES AND LOCAL OFFICES
TELEGRAM WORKING

The Central Telegraph Office was the central hub for London and International telegrams.  But there were offices all round the country processing the local traffic.

Even though many small Post Offices had a telegraph presence, they were always connected to a sizeable hub that would be the routing centres for UK traffic.  Telegrams from these smaller offices, called out-laying offices, could be by Morse, telegraph machine or even the telephone.

The larger regional hubs were generally located in Head Post Offices.

These are some of the larger offices that handled telegraph traffic.

Ascot - probably at the race track (1938)

Birmingham HPO - Addressing and segregation room (1933)

Birmingham HPO - Phonogram positions with operator loading conveyor (1934)

Birmingham HPO - Instrument room with Creed teleprinters (1938)

Birmingham HPO - Instrument room with Telegraphists
The lamp pictured in the centre of the first desk shows a call waiting

Birmingham HPO - Phonogram room (1932)

Birmingham HPO - Phonogram room (1938)

Birmingham HPO - Phonogram room conveyor terminal (1933)
Forms are conveyed to the room and then drop down within the chained section

Birmingham HPO - Telegraphist training school (1938)

Birmingham HPO - Phonogram room showing telegraphists at work

Bristol HPO - Instrument room (1934)

Bristol HPO - Instrument room, North (1934)

Leeds HPO - Instrument room (1938)

Liverpool HPO - Pneumatic tube terminals (1932)

Liverpool HPO - Teleprinter apparatus (1932)

Newcastle HPO - Phonogram room (1949)

Newcastle HPO - Phonogram enquiry suite (1949)

Newcastle HPO - Phonogram operator suits (1949)

Newcastle HPO - Apparatus racks (1949)

Rugby Post Office - Instrument room with Creed teleprinters (1946)

Clydebank Post Office (1938)

Radio Telegrams at the Baltic Exchange (1950)