Instructions for use
Select an object to view from the list below. To rotate either click on the rotate icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the image or click and drag within the object window.
Experimental notebook, 1896 - 1897
Early telephone directory
Post Office Telephones advertising material, 1930s
Phonecards, 1990s
National Telephone Company Midland province, staff dinner programme
Liverpool scrapbook
Model vans
Photograph albums, 1911 and 1932
London telephone directories
Bell's Telephone, edited by Kate Field
Victorian marketing
Shareholder register
This event was arranged by National Telephone Company (NTC) employees in Birmingham on 11 November 1911, prior to transfer to [the] Post Office and to bid farewell. The NTC was the largest of the private telephone companies that had competed to offer a telephone service in the UK. When on 1 January 1912 the Post Office took over the NTC it inaugurated a unified telephone system throughout most of Britain.