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Do you know anybody, historically even, who sent/received a TELEGRAM

5rtytry56

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frag420

Inspector Morse...

El Weirdo

YES STOP

notsoyoungwan

Yes. My father, now in his 80s, sent one from Dublin to his parents in kerry to let them know his brother (also in Dublin)had needed emergency surgery and was doing ok after it.

The flying mouse

Yes.

Congratulations on my wedding :-)

1983 or 2 I forget now.

Winterlong

Got a rake of them at home from the parents wedding.

[Deleted User]

My mother worked as telephonist in the P&T in the 1950s and learned Morse code all her life she could remember the dots and dashes code.

Grayson

My parents did back in the 80's. They also sent/received telex's.

[Deleted User]

Winterlong wrote: »

Got a rake of them at home from the parents wedding.

Same, my parents have them from their wedding day.

[Deleted User]

Grayson wrote: »

My parents did back in the 80's. They also sent/received telex's.

Had to look that up. I was never aware of such a thing before.

RayM

I found one from 1982 while moving house a few years ago STOP It was sent by my mum's colleagues congratulating her for giving birth to me STOP

Ah, stop.

El Weirdo

ADRIAN STOP COMING HOME STOP

What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!

CalamariFritti

Telegram Sam

5rtytry56

El Weirdo wrote: »

What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!

YUP I'm a fan of these books by Sue Townsend as well (RIP):D

readytosnap

Got a couple on my wedding day from relatives in Ireland, still have them after more than 30 years, I have to say, they aged better than the missus.

Itssoeasy

Yes my grandparents got some on their wedding day in 1960 which my grandmother still has along with the photo album.

westcoast66

I spent some time in south america in the 90's. A few weeks after I got home, I got a telegram (or TELEX?) from a girlfriend I had over there. I didn't know what to do with it! Seems like a relic from pre email days.

AudreyHepburn

My grandparents, all now in their 80s. They would send and receive them from relatives down the country and abroad.

cajonlardo

i went for a job interview in 1986.

I was told immediately that I was not successful. I lived in a flat back then but the next day a telegram was sent out to my parents house asking to comeback and that they wanted to offer me an alternative role. It was all very exciting stuff back then and I was sooooooooooo important

That and the wedding ones ( '87)

The Backwards Man

El Weirdo wrote: »

What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!

PLEASE STOP

Grayson

In 20 years time there'll be a thread "Does anyone know anyone who has sent an SMS."

Badly Drunk Boy

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Do you know anybody who sent/received a TELEGRAM?

Sam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_pm2wPR5u4

Shannon757

What's a telegram?

suicide_circus

“Yes, I’d like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aero mail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?”

RobertKK

I remember as a child at my cousin's wedding in the early 1980s and they received a telegram.

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Ted111

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAqSdDjOPgQ

looksee

We got several for wedding and first two children. We were abroad at the time. Also remember vaguely a scattering of them from my childhood and teens, but generally they were not particularly noteworthy -except that they were expensive to send - so I have no idea what they were about. People travelling mostly I think.

The cheaper alternative was postcards. I recently found one my mum sent her mother, she (mum) was working, in service, and sent a postcard to say she would get one bus to a nearby town and another to her home. She was 14 at the time.

Randle P. McMurphy

Sent one to my parents in the 70's. Needed money in a hurry to get back home.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I sent and received many in my youth when in countries where phones were few. Pre mobile phones a telegram was a marvel.

thefishone

Remember back in the early 80s,two lads from school getting a job with
P&T to deliver telegrams,short lived job it turned out.