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30th May 2020, 4:24 am | #21 |
Triode
Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK.
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Re: Dialling Code Booklets, your memories?
I have never seen that code book! It would seem rather pointless as I would have thought all phone books included dialling codes well before 1988.
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30th May 2020, 4:31 am | #22 | ||
Triode
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30th May 2020, 11:18 am | #23 | |
Heptode
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Flintshire, UK.
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Crawford on the A74, Crawford John to the north west and Elvanfoot to the south. They were all dialling 9 to reach Lanark until 23rd June. At 10am two were changed over - Elvanfoot (0864 5) a UAX13R in the middle of nowhere on the A702 road to Dumfries from Elvanfoot. It had just over 50 lines on it having been converted from a UAX12 with the coming of STD. The other was a UAX13 at Crawford John (0864 4) with just over 50 lines. Then at just before 10.30am the 'ceremony' of what BT thought was the 'last public electro-mechanical exchange' in the UK network took place at Crawford on a now bypassed section of the old A74 to the north of Crawford. There a BT engineer by the name of Bob Hope (not the one you're thinking of ;-) ) cut the cables on the MDF Of the 600 line SAX then two children from the local primary school pulled the wedges out to bring the new exchange into service. All thee exchanges became 6 digit numbers in the 0864 LNS and dialled the STD code to reach Lanark. This took place in front of the twenty or so of us squashed into the tiny building - Directors of BT, GPT(who had provided the new exchange and the Press & TV. BT had hoped for 'national' publicity being the end of an £11 billion project. Sadly never made it as John Major resigned as Chairman of the Tory party and there wasn't time for BT's bit. Luckily I captured the entire ceremony from before 10am until after the Crawford change-over on video. Plus it wasn't the ' last public electro-mechanical exchange' - that was almost a month later! But that's another story. |
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30th May 2020, 11:26 am | #24 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Charmouth, Dorset, UK.
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Re: Dialling Code Booklets, your memories?
We had dialing code booklets when we moved here to Dorset from Kent in 1970, prior to that we didn't even have a dial!
Our number was Charmough 556 we had a two tone green phone on the wall. Back in Kent we were Borough Green 3333 which was useful especially as I ran a business there, but were still on a manual exchange. My first job in London had the number City 1124, didn't need dialing code books as there weren't any dialing codes. Peter |
30th May 2020, 6:45 pm | #25 | |
Heptode
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Location: Flintshire, UK.
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