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MPX5100426: "Hello" girl says goodbye at 79: Telephone operator Florrie Smith is saying goodbye to her job at the age of seventy-nine. The machines are taking over. Widow Florrie - pictured here at work on Monday (10-3-69) will sever her connection with the General Post Office when Newick exchange, Sussex, goes automatic on Wednesday (19-3-69). She will not be transferred to a different exchange because she doesn't want to travel to work. At Newick, where she has been on the switchboard since 1928, she has been living on the premises and doubling as the caretaker, too. Now she plans to move home. She plans to live nearby with her daughter. "I'd like to find an evening job, "she said, March 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5100306: Flora Gatha is married to a famous Indian photographer Ashwin Gatha. She is constantly appearing in his pictures which have been exhibited in New York and Paris. Soon he will have an exhibition at the Ashai Pentex Gallery in London. Flora is a professional dancer - contemporary ballet and Indian classical, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images