Last week, I was in a house in Cork and was very pleasantly surprised to come across this little sign on the back of the hot press door.
It brought a number of thoughts.
That there was a time when three digits were sufficient to uniquely identify all the telephones in Cork – so no more than 999 telephone lines, and that property on Merchant’s Quay was one.
That the plumber must have been one of the first to leave his number in the hot press as a marketing reminder for when there might be a problem.
That Merchants Quay as in the photograph hanging in Dan Lowry’s was a much nicer streetscape then rather than now.
It brought a number of thoughts.
That there was a time when three digits were sufficient to uniquely identify all the telephones in Cork – so no more than 999 telephone lines, and that property on Merchant’s Quay was one.
That the plumber must have been one of the first to leave his number in the hot press as a marketing reminder for when there might be a problem.
That Merchants Quay as in the photograph hanging in Dan Lowry’s was a much nicer streetscape then rather than now.
 Then |  Now |
