States Telephones

The undermentioned subscribers have been connected to the Telephone system for week ending August 10, 1911:

2440 Ewens C., Le Chalet, St Martin's.

680 Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping Limited, High Street

824 Wright & Co., 3 Commercial Arcade (The Star)

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The under mentioned subscribers have been connected to the telephone system for week ending June 9, 1910:

643 De La Mare, E, No. 12, Commercial Arcade

599 Loveridge's Drapery Stores, 44 High Street

1306 Poat, W & F, Les Nicolles Vineries, Baubigny (The Star)

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In her 107th year Mrs Neve  became a subscriber to the States Telephone Exchange and often used the instrument herself. She was given the number 107. [A Saga of Guernsey, p. 29.]

 From the same source, p. 27:

While the Guernsey Telephone system was being erected in 1898, a gentleman coming out of his house one morning, attired in frock-coat and tall silk hat, with an orchid in his button-hole and a neat umbrella in his hand, perceived workmen about to plant a big pole near his gate. He requested them to stop, but on being told to go to Putney he, instead, went down on his knees and raised the Clameur. That proved effective, and the Telephone Department had either to arrange with him or defend an action.

In 1898, Jurat Major-General F B Mainguy, RE (retired) of Les Rocquettes, in face of much opposition and prejudice, induced the States to establish a Telephone System for the island. It has been phenomenally successful, although an objector asserted at the time that all the telephoning needed in Guernsey could be accomplished with a speaking-trumpet from the summit of Victoria Tower.