The Light Straw Domain

T h e L i g h t S t r a w D o m a i n
has been created as a celebration of faded memories, obsolete technologies, dusty old papers, reminiscences of the not so distant past, including...

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	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.
	The General Post Office Here we look at the GPO, Royal Mail, Post Office Savings Bank, ERNIE, National Giro 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...
	Engineering Excellence A sense of power! Inventors, well-engineered structures, buildings, museums and more...
	Streetwise A study of the commonplace city scene. Street furniture, utility vehicles in busy towns...
	Butlin's Claction 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...
	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).
	Rusty Railways Links to selected railway sites, including Mail-Rail: The Post Office Railway...
	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'...
	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...
	Mission Statement (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."
	About Light Straw/Contact Designed, compiled and published by John Chenery © 1997 - 2012 with additions from contributors.
Acknowledgements:	Light Straw pages have been on-line since 19th August 1997, with the domain name active from October 1999. 'Light Straw logo' photographed by Tony Inglis.
	Light Straw is hosted by Webfusion and uploaded by Globescape's CuteFTP 8 Home.
	Light Straw was originally devised with AOLPRESS, but is currently being refreshed and recoded with Microsoft Expression Web 4.
	These pages are produced under the shadow of the Twin Towers, although Light Straw shines brightly through the darkness.

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