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Old 5th Sep 2018, 11:03 am   #3
Pellseinydd
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Default Re: Dialling before STD

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Originally Posted by Scott37 View Post
Another arcane question from me: I assume pre-STD only local calls could be dialled and all non-local calls would require intervention by the operator. I assume too that if you lived in a 'Director' area you could dial local calls to the entire area (except for any remaining manual exchanges, of course). What happened if you lived adjacent to a Director area, say London, such that the calls to the Director area would be local calls. Could you dial them and if so, how, as the '01' code was not created until STD started?
And for Glasgow - the local codes from the Director area
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