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Originally Posted by Station X
There are old telephone directories available on line which would confirm number length. Likewise adverts in old newspapers.
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Originally Posted by paulsherwin
I think Oxford was 4 digit until the mid 70s when all numbers received an extra digit. New numbers allocated from the mid 80s onwards were 6 digit and the 5/6 mix continued for several years.
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The chap who lived in our house in a suburb of Oxford from 1956 until 1992 certainly had a 5-digit number in 1964, see attached image. But interesting to note that the nearby town of Abingdon seemed to have some 3-digit ones.
We had the same number until about 2000 when an extra "5" was added to make it 6 digits.
Nick.