British Telecom phone exchange in Bolton in 1980
BOLTON’S “hello” girls, as they were fondly nicknamed, will not be saying goodbye after all, says our caption back in March 1980.
British Telecom scrapped the main part of a major rationalisation plan which would have meant the loss of at least 100 jobs at Bolton telephone exchange.
Instead it became a main directory enquiries centre for a section of BT’s Lancashire and Cumbria area.
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