Romance When a lot of staff still worked in this building in the 1960s, romances also arose. My best memory of the Neude In 1960 I, Joop van Luijn, worked at the assembly department in the telephone exchanges on the Neude. That same year I met my current wife in the post office. Irene worked […]
someone to call
Calling someone? Back in the day, if you wanted to call someone and you didn’t have a telephone number, you could call the number information service 008. You got the telephone operators on the line who helped you look up the number. In the carousel archive above the ladies or in one of the books […]
Telephone exchange office 2010
Telephone exchange 2010 This photo shows one of the four telephone exchanges in the building around the turn of the century. With this exchange, telephone traffic between other exchanges, including those of the other telephone providers, was processed. The exchange was previously included in the national telephone traffic network. Other exchanges in the building processed […]
Connection technology old and new
Connection technology old and new In 1990, a wing of the building partially tore off due to the weight of the cable packages that ran meters thick through the building, which is seen on the image on the left. With the current fiber optic technology, the transmission capacity of the left image has been more […]
Interlocal manual switchboard
Interlocal manual switchboard After the completion of the post office, a manual switchboard was set up in 1926 for telephone traffic with places outside the city of Utrecht. This manual switchboard was located on the second floor and was operated by telephone operators. Anyone who wanted to call someone outside Utrecht requested the call from […]
Types of telephone exchanges – bicycle parking de Neude
Types of telephone exchanges Over the years, the capacity of the telephone exchange has continued to grow. Fewer and fewer people were also needed for operation and maintenance. Photos above portray this development. In 1926, approximately 1 operator was needed to serve 100 customers. In 1960, 1 maintenance engineer was needed per 1000 customers to […]
History of Post Office “De Neude”
History of this building In this bicycle shed, there are various information panels that show how this building was used in the past. It shows what was needed to provide a large part of the Netherlands with telephone and internet. At the place where the library is now, many telephone operators used to connect telephone […]
Liked on the Leash
liked on a leash Welcome Dogs like to run free. This is no problem at all on the public roads around the Wielrevelt (Joostenlaan, Eikslaan and Haarpad). Unfortunately, it is not possible everywhere. Between the fields and meadows, stray dogs, often unseen and unintentionally, cause disruption to nature. Dogs are welcome in the field, but […]
Utrecht, Religious Centre
Utrecht was the religious centre of the Northern Netherlands (I.H. Verstraelen, 1634)
On the bank of the Rhine
On the bank of the Rhine Here two arms of the Rhine come together again. The river ‘De Mare’, now filled in, flowed into the Rhine from the north. A little further west De Vliet flowed in to the Rhine from the south. So this was literally a junction of waterways. It’s not surprising that […]