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Black & white photograph of GPO engineer Donald Quintin Campbell standing at the GPO’s Test Desk in Oban in the late 1970s. Donald, or Donnie or DQ as he was known, was one of the first and longest serving telephone engineers on Tiree.
Black & white photograph of GPO engineer Donald Quintin Campbell standing by his company van in summer 1950. Donald, or Donnie or DQ as he was known, was one of the first and longest serving telephone engineers on Tiree. He was sent to the island for a few months under protest in 1948, but ended up staying for 21 years. In 1954, Donald married Jessie MacLean Kennedy of Kilmoluaig, and they lived in Machair House, Ruaig, which was owned by the GPO at the time.
Black & white photograph of General Post Office (GPO) engineer Donald Quintin Campbell standing by his company van in 1950. Donald, or Donnie or DQ as he was known, was one of the first and longest serving telephone engineers on Tiree. He was sent to the island for a few months under protest in 1948, but ended up staying for 21 years. In 1954, Donald married Jessie MacLean Kennedy of Kilmoluaig, and they lived in Machair House, Ruaig, which was owned by the GPO at the time.
Post Office Telephones Exchange Diary 25/9/1948 to 16/2/1974, which hung in the Tiree cable hut at Caoles. The cable hut was where the submarine cable from Mull connected to the Tiree exchange (via Coll).
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One of the first and longest serving telephone engineers was Donald Quintin Campbell, whose signature appears next to most entries in the diary during 1948-1968.
