Re: Southampton - number of digits on dial label in 1958
I lived in Abingdon around 1972/73 and we were still on Button A/B coin boxes, a manual exchange and the Doctor's surgery was something like Abingdon 8. You could chat to a girl friend for hours for 2p if the operators were in a good mood. I was told that was because of its alphabetic ordering it had a very early opportunity to go to STD but refused on the grounds of inadequate testing or reliability. Sorry if this is drifting too far off topic.
Roger
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