Transport and Telecomms Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Coastal River and canal Road Road bridges Railway Air and telecoms Rural telephone exchange, Dunscore, Dumfries-shire A very modest presence in the landscape for a service which revolutionised communications to, from and within the countryside. Initially, such services took the form of telegraphy – relaying messages in morse code over a web of lines. The telephone followed, but the posts carrying the lines retained the name 'telegraph poles'. The amalgamation of exchanges and their automation have all but removed any human intermediary from the system. Recent telecommunication developments have enabled office workers to work from home, rather than face the increasing stresses of urban life. Resource pack   1     2     3     4     5