Walking into a modern post office you are faced with a surprising range of goods for sale with items directly related to the postal service usually relegated to the side. This sign from the Rockley Post Office provides us with a different view of the functions and role of the post office. It also reminds […]
When this telephone was installed at the Bathurst Post Office in 1895, the only place to make it ring was the Bathurst railway station. A single telephone line operated between the two establishments to advise the post office of any mail trains that were running late, until a switchboard of twenty-five lines was installed the […]
As a girl at West Wallsend in the 1950s Narelle Kemp watched her mother Elvie, with pointed index finger, turn the number dial on this black Bakelite telephone. She listened to the distinctive rotation sound as the dial returned. When someone called, the phone’s built-in-bell made a cheerful ring, which carried throughout all the rooms […]
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