Friday, 11 September 2026

Holding the line: 50 years since Nuriootpa telephone exchange ‘cutover’

In a two-storey 1950s-built cream brick building on the main street of Nuriootpa, the soft whirr of computer processing underscores the nostalgic reminiscing of Brian Conway and Mary Thomas as they wander through several lofty upstairs rooms.

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by Mel Jaunay
Holding the line: 50 years since Nuriootpa telephone exchange ‘cutover’
Former Nuriootpa Telephone Exchange employees, Mary Thomas and Brian Conway with some of the old equipment which remains in the building 50 years on from the ‘cutover’ to the automatic system.

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