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The first modern telephone in Orkney.
This telephone was installed in the Kirkwall Hotel for the queens visit in 1959. All these telephone have a manufacture date on the base and I have checked and it is 1959. It is not recorded if she phoned home on it but it was subsequently ' rescued ' by a GPO engineer and was in his house until his death. It now lives in the BT museum in Kirkwall.
Picture added on 10 May 2007
My grannie and grandad in Rousay had a black and green beckalite phone away back in the 1950's and I thought it was right posh. The shared line wasn't so good!
Added by Beryl Simpson on 10 May 2007
Kirkwall
