The Stamford Hill automatic telephone exchange - the 63rd automatic exchange to be brought into service within ten miles of Oxford Circus - was officially opened and more than 2,500 subscribers went over to the automatic system - the first call was made by Councillor M E James - chairman of Tottenham Urban Council to his seven-year-old daughter Beryl at school at Amhurst Park - photo shows Sir Herbert J Ormond JP ( Mayor of Stoke Newington ) Mr W H O Napier CBE ( Controller London Telephone Service ) and Councillor M E James JP after the opening ceremony March 22nd 1934