The Light Straw Domain
has been created as a celebration of faded memories, obsolete technologies, dusty old papers, reminiscences of the not so distant past, including:

Light Straw ATE.

Enter the world of operator connected calls, Subscriber Trunk Dialling , Strowger switching and much more...

Visit the Post Office Tower; the Telephone Managers' Office; explore the Telecoms Engineering Centre; and learn about the last two TXE4s to be taken out of service.

Are you GPO TOo?

If you worked for any division of the GPO, then pop along to the GPO Traffic Office, have a chat and share some of those not so distant memories about your day to day routines...

Rusty Railways.

Links to selected railway sites, including Mail-Rail:The Post Office Railway.

Engineering Excellence.

A sense of power. Inventors, well engineered structures, buildings, museums and more...

Faded Memories

It wasn't that long ago that these were commonplace. Well weren't they, I can't quite remember? Take time out to recall...

Butlin's Clacton

Warning: These pages may take you back to your childhood when life was so uncomplicated and your hardest choice was between Walls or Lyons-Maid ice-cream.

The General Post Office (GPO)

Here we look at the GPO, Royal Mail, Post Office Savings Bank, ERNIE, National Giro and more...

LSD (Finance)

LSD (£sd) - pounds, shillings and pence - is an abbreviation of the Latin words libra, solidus and denarius.

Libra, a pound weight in Latin,
s. is an abbreviation for shilling in English,
d. stands for denarius or denarii (a Roman coin).

We start with some history of UK banking...

On Her Majesty's Service

In times gone by, the majority of service industries in Great Britain were provided by the government and ultimately, were the responsibility of Her Majesty, The Queen. In this section we study just some of the departments which were 'On Her Majesty's Service'...

Mission Statement (It does what it says on the tin)

The Light-Straw Domain (LSD) is a trip backwards in time to the not so distant days of 'old money', pioneering technologies, solid reliable engineering, childhood dreams, all of the foundations upon which the modern world relies.

"Light Straw paints a unique picture of the world as seen through the eyes of a child of the Sixties."

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