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Telstra Museum

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Telstra Museum
Address: 12 Kitchener Parade, Bankstown NSW 2200, Australia
Phone: 1800 687 386
State: New South Wales
City: Bankstown
Zip Code: 2200


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A cabinet of telecommunication wonders of the past. Well worth a visit if you have the time and interest.
8 years ago (15-10-2017)
Great place for anyone interested in our telecommunications heritage. The staff are most obliging and pleasant.
8 years ago (21-01-2017)
Occasionally treasure hunts discover gems that one didn’t even know existed. In the case of the Telstra Museum in Bankstown the unknown gem comes with an invaluable curator and former Telstra employee, Brian Mullins. Amber with a preserved insect inside pales into insignificance with these finds. I went to the museum, on the advice of Robert Flynn from Telstra, to look for information on the Balmain Telephone Exchange and became fascinated by other items on display including photos and exhibits of telephone, telegraph, telex and other communications equipment used in post offices, telephone exchanges and radio and television stations. One fascinating exhibit was a 1910 Sydney GPO handwritten record, known as the “misdemeanours book”, in which were entered the names of employees, the “Nature of Irregularity” they had committed and the fine imposed on them. It is a huge official ledger of about a thousand pages with one or two employees per page. Amongst the entries was one for an employee whose irregularity was "absence without leave". His fine was a salary reduction from £140 to £120 per year. Another entry was for a thirteen-year-old messenger boy. He had fines of 1 shilling for each of eight irregularities that included incorrectly addressing telegrams, incorrectly enclosing telegrams, omitting porterage when addressing a telegram and placing a telegram in an incorrectly addressed envelope. The messenger boy obviously realised that he did not have a bright future in the post office so left and had a lifelong career in another profession. Norman T Gilroy was the first Australian to be appointed as a Catholic Cardinal. The museum had a file on the Balmain exchange but unfortunately it was small compared with files on some other exchanges. There was very limited information on the 1957 and 1971 exchange buildings and equipment which I was particularly interested in but the file did contain information (hand written letters and memos amongst other typed letters, notices, tenders and agreements) on the original 1914 Balmain automatic exchange and some subscriber information dating from the 1888 manual exchange. The names and statistics of Balmain telephone subscribers makes interesting reading mainly for the original few names and later for the number of subscribers. The PMG Annual Report of 1892 lists 15 subscribers in Balmain that included the Biloela Goal, the 1879 to 1908 gaol on Cockatoo Island, and the Callan Park Lunatic Asylum. Only subscriber numbers were available for the period 1950 to 1977.
12 years ago (05-05-2013)
Staff were very knowledgeable
10 years ago (22-11-2015)
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