Light-Straw Mission Statement

	`The Light-Straw Domain` Mission Statement
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." References: LSD was the abbreviation for £:s:d, pounds, shillings and pence; otherwise known as 'old money': the pre-decimal coinage of the UK until 1971. LSD also refers to lysergic acid diethylamide, a synthetic hallucinogenic drug which was first synthesised in 1938 by Albert Hoffman. Whilst £:s:d may not be good for your wealth and LSD may not be good for your health, the Light-Straw Domain is entirely harmless and is recommended.

Light Straw is named after the paint colour used on telephone exchange racking and equipment between 1960 and 1990.

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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 see the last two TXE4s to be taken out of service.
	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.
	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'...

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