‘Three minutes, are you extending?’: The era of timing telephonists

A telephonists’ reunion in 1960. Front row from left: (unknown), Gloria Pearce, Chloe Patterson, Rose Ward, and Bronwyn Carpenter. First row: Fay White, Ruth Sherwin (nee Burrows), (unknown), Colleen Flynn (nee Hogan), Joan Coughlan (nee Wildin), Barbara Canty (nee Toone), Val Geale (nee…