Monday 15 January, 8.00 pm

EHHS Members' Meeting JOINT with Enfield Society

The Story of Enfield’s Telephones before smartphones

Talk by John Liffen

8.00 pm at Jubilee Hall, Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ (getting there).

The Telephone was introduced into Enfield in 1899 using an exchange in a small room at the side of a pub. Take up was initially slow but by the 1920’s large new exchanges were needed and were eventually automated. Now, however, the mobile phone and social media have almost supplanted the “landline” and new uses may need to be found for Enfield’s existing telephone exchanges. The talk will include recent photos taken by the author with images drawn from BT archives, Enfield Local Studies & Archive and The Science Museum Group.
Free to members of both organisations,
otherwise all welcome for just £1 per person payable on the night at Jubilee Hall.