IN the days before emails, telegrams were the fastest form of messaging.
Some contained such momentous news that they were preserved by the recipient for posterity.
Now staff at the Riverside Museum are asking people to rummage in their cupboards and find long forgotten messages.
The Glasgow visitor attraction is working with the Science Museum in London, which is about to open a new communications gallery.
And copies of some of the telegrams found in Glasgow could feature in one of its exhibitions.
Elena Trimarchi, who is co-ordinating the Riverside end of the project, said: "We look forward to hearing from anyone who would like to bring in any telegrams they have at home – from Victorian times up until the 1980s.
"The topic of the telegram can be anything from national, international or local events to personal and family events."
Museum bosses are particularly keen to get telegrams which reflect key events in British or world history.
But it is also looking for more routine messages covering everything from family events to business matters.
Anyone who wants to get involved should go to the Riverside Museum on Saturday or contact Elena at riverside.telegrams@gmail.com for more information.
vivienne.nicoll@ eveningtimes.co.uk
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