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Originally Posted by Sparks
I vaguely remember the dialling code booklets but weren't the codes printed in the telephone directories already ?
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No, in the vast majority of UK telephone areas it wasn't until around 1983 that dialling codes began to be listed in phone books. One exception was Birmingham, where codes were always shown in the phone book.
The Post Office in the 1970s supplied Dialling Code Booklets, which were always A5 size, in public phone boxes in Leeds for a while, maybe as an experiment. This idea was soon abandoned as the booklets were pinched within a few days on average!