The Central Telephone Exchange, Melbourne is a building in Central Melbourne, Australia , constructed between May 1907 and early 1909 by the Reinforced Concrete & Monier Pipe Construction Co. headed by engineer Sir John Monash , and designed by architect Samuel Charles Brittingham . The building includes an early example of a reinforced concrete saw-tooth roof.
5-691: The building was commissioned by the Public Works Department of the Commonwealth of Australia to house the new telephone service, which came under the recently formed Post Master General's Department following Federation of the Australian Colonies in 1901. the contract for construction was let in February 1908. The Lonsdale Street facade of the exchange was a two-storey Italianate style office block with stone facing with
10-468: A long, narrow, three-storey building behind. This housed the exchange plant. The design employed reinforced concrete suspended floors supported on the load-bearing brick masonry walls and a centre row of reinforced concrete columns. The building was the scene of the Australian novel Murder In The Telephone Exchange by June Wright (1919-2012). This article about a telecommunications company
15-578: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . June Wright Dorothy June Wright (née Healy; 29 June 1919 – 4 February 2012) was an Australian writer. She wrote six popular crime novels between 1948 and 1966, all with recognisable settings in and around Melbourne. She also wrote many articles for Catholic lay journals such as The Majellan, Caritas and Scapular and the Catholic newspaper The Advocate. She recorded her personal memoirs and family history in two volumes in 1994 and 1997. Wright
20-726: Was adapted for stage by Wendy Lewis and premiered in Sydney in March 2018. Wright's work featured in the Baillieu Library Exhibition, Murderous Melbourne: A Celebration of Australian Crime Fiction and Place, The University of Melbourne (10 June to 7 September 2008). The exhibition involved architecture students designing new dust jackets for Wright's book Faculty of Murder. Her books also feature in Highlights and Lowlifes (29 June to 31 August 2015), an exhibition on
25-932: Was born in 1919 in Malvern, Victoria and educated at Malvern's Kildara College , Loreto Mandeville Hall , in Toorak. After leaving school, she briefly studied commercial art at Melbourne Technical School before working as a telephonist at the Central Telephone Exchange in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, which formed the basis of her first novel Murder in the Telephone Exchange . In 1941 she married Stewart Wright, an accountant. They had six children: Patrick, Rosemary, Nicholas, Anthony, Brenda and Stephen. Maggie Byrnes series Mother Paul series June Wright's novel, The Devil's Caress
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