Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1921

Workmen erecting one of New Street station's twenty-five loudspeakers deployed in October 1925 to improve station announcements. The speakers were linked together in groups of up to 13 speakers so that the announcer could both target certain sections of the station with his announcements and also to reduce the level of noise in a covered station.. Ladies did not take over this role until the Second World War when in May 1941 21 year-old Miss Olive Dew, a former shop assistant, took over this role.

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