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Local historian uncovers quirky story behind Denbigh’s first telephone

Summary by wales247.co.uk
The bizarre reason why an eccentric aristocrat installed the first telephone in a North Wales market town in 1881 has finally been revealed. Local historian Clwyd Wynne discovered that Anglesey-born philanthropist Emily Fazakerley wanted to listen to an opera that was being staged in Denbigh but wasn’t able to be there in person. The phone, which was installed just six years after Alexander Graham Bell’s landmark invention, was hooked up with th…
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wales247.co.uk broke the news in on Monday, September 15, 2025.
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