Audio cassette recording of Maggie Campbell talking about her interview with Mary MacPhee, Scarinish on 11/1/2003.
Maggie Campbell talks about her interview with Mary T. MacPhee of Scarinish in January 2003 who worked in the old telephone exchange in Scarinish in 1949 after working at the Pitt Street Exchange in Glasgow. The building is described in detail, as well as the switchboard and how calls were made, connected and paid for. She also talks about emergency calls, the people on Tiree who had a phone in 1949 and the first telephone engineer on the island.