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The Three Tees Agency
A Warm Invitation to Our Reunion
We warmly invite everyone who has been a part of the agency, whether employed permanently or temporarily, attended the school’s telex training, or was a valued client who built lasting connections with us. The reunion is not just for those who knew our director, Janet Day, as the business obviously continued after she left, but we are planning this as a surprise for her!
The Reunion Details
Saturday, 3rd October, 2026
We are going for Saturday, 3rd October, 2026, at The Punch Tavern, 99 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DE, from midday to 3-ish. We will be holding it in The Editor’s Suite, which is rather fitting, as after Mr Derek Munro-Peebles’s (our founder) military career, he was a journalist. The reunion will have a cash bar with a finger buffet.
Image: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
How to RSVP for the Reunion
Lynn Watt, aka Miss Newman is handling the reunion
Please scroll down for the the RSVP form.
A History of The Three Tees Agency
The Three Tees Agency was founded by Mr Derek Munro-Peebles on 1 January 1963, when it was granted its first licence to operate (at a cost of 30 bob).
Weekday opening hours were then 8am–9pm, with a short day of 9-5 on Saturday and Sunday for typing invoices at home. The agency’s offices were based in 4 square yards of an estate agents office underneath the arches in Farringdon Street, London.
Three Tees Agency: Archival Images
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Janet Day was with the company for 28 years, having joined them in March 1965; she left the Three Tees as its director in April 1993.
Christmas Card Calendar image: Janet is pictured in the bottom row, fourth from the left. Christmas card image: Janet is pictured in the bottom row, third from the left.
Archival corporate image credits: The former Three Tees agency archive, courtesy of Lynn Watt. All historical archival photographs displayed in this post are protected under South Coast View’s Terms of Use. Visitors are granted a limited license to view the images on-screen for personal, non-commercial use only. Down-sampling, scraping, screenshotting, republishing, or any other form of redistribution or reuse of these images is strictly prohibited.
First Successes
Permanent and Temporary Placements
The first permanent placement was in January 1963. ‘Taffy’ Jones secured a job within The English Electric Company LTD. The Temporary Desk started in March, 1963.
The Three Tees Agency Expands
Fleet Street, Regent Street and Eastcheap
In 1964, the office moved to larger premises in Fleet Street, with the Regent Street and Eastcheap offices opening a few years later.
Help Us Find Brian Garner!
We are making a special effort to trace Brian Garner, who ran The Three Tees Agency telex training school at Ludgate House in Fleet Street during the 1970s.
Brian was a brilliant tutor who taught touch typing, paper tape reading, and telex operations to so many of us, helping set up decades of temporary and permanent careers across London.
We understand Brian left the agency in the late 1970s after being left a newsagent shop outside London in a will, which he went on to manage.
Do you remember Brian, know the newsagent business he managed, or know where he is today?
We would love to invite him to our gathering at The Punch Tavern on Saturday, the 3rd of October 2026. Should you have any information or contact details, please send us a message through the RSVP form below.
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What is South Coast View’s connection to the Three Tees Agency?
Andrzej (editor of this website) worked for the Three Tees as a temp between 1972 and 1980. See my post about Telex in The UK and Teleprinters I Remember.
Janet Day, Lynn Watt and Andrzej look forward to seeing you on Saturday, 3rd October, 2026.
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