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Telephone numbers were displayed preceded by the exchange name, with the first three letters highlighted to indicate the code, and number, such as WHI tehall 1212 . Director schemes were gradually introduced in other major cities of the UK — Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester .
- Phones Without Phone Numbers
- Early Single-Digit Telephone Numbers
- Letters-With-Numbers Phone Numbers
- Area Codes
- How Telephone Letters-With-Numbers Were Spoken
- Telephone Directories
- Area Code Displays in Call Boxes
- Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD): Long All-Number Telephone Numbers
- Public Reactions to Subscriber Trunk Dialling
Phones - as candlestick phones - started creaping into wealthier households in the early 20th century, served by a small telephone exchange, probably in the back of a shop or village post office. It wasn't strictly true to say that these phones didn't have numbers. They did, but there was no way that anyone could use their phone to connect to anoth...
The next development was for the phones - stilll normally candlestick ones - was to have their number dials with their own phone number marked on the centres of the dial. With this type of phone, one subscriber could dial another but only on that very small exchange which meant only in the small local area.
According the following old poster shown below, by the 1930s phones in some areas could make connections directly to phones in other areas because exchangeswere larger with permanent connections to more exchanges and with many more operators. The system required new phone numbers: an area code of three letters followed the subscriber's numerical nu...
There was a logic to area codes being letters rather than numbers, in that they were the first three letters of the name of a local area. Our family lived in Edgware on the outskirts of London where the code was EDG, but so as not to overload the system, we were allocated STO which stood for Stonegrove, an area on the outskirts of Edgware. So our t...
These phone numbers were always spoken with the full name of the area code. So, with our STO 9804 telephone number, we announced who we were on answering our phone, by saying, "Stonegrove 9804", not STO 9804. Incidentally, it was considered very bad form just to say "Hello". How times have changed!
There were telephone directories of subscribers' telephone numbers. They were supplied free of charge to those households with phones and to public phone boxes. They were huge tomes, even though the print was tiny and the paper flimsy. A single book was out of the question because there were so many telephone numbers. So the directories came in sev...
Telephone directories didn't last long in telephone boxes as people took them for various reasons, but there was a display of area codes mounted on the wall of each box. One is shown in the following photo. It enlarges to a legible size on tap/click, but there is also a transcription below. Information mounted on the wall of London area telephone b...
As more and more people went on the phone, more numbers were needed, and it was decided to change area codes from letters to numbers and to bring the whole of the UK into a direct dialing system. The idea was that more numbers could easily be added at any stage by putting an extra digit in front of the original numbers. The system was called Subscr...
Most people I knew were irritated rather than impressed by the change. For a start, dialling O for the operator was so much more sensible than having to dial 100, which felt like change for change's sake, and telephone numbers with letters were much easier to remember than all-number ones. Also people had invested in printed headed writing paper sh...
By the spring of 1924, Britain had nearly 265,000 lines working on 23 automatic exchanges, from a capacity of 25 line to 15,000, and by seven different manufacturers. Strowger exchanges became the backbone of the UK telephone network and remained a key component for over 50 years.
Jul 19, 2023 · In the early 20th century, the UK implemented a nationwide numbering system. This system divided the country into several geographic areas, with each area assigned a unique three-digit area code. These area codes were followed by local numbers, typically consisting of four digits. London was assigned the area code 020.
Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom have a flexible structure that reflects their historical demands, starting from many independent companies through a nationalised near-monopoly, to a system that supports many different services, including cellular phones, which were not envisaged when the system was first built.
Numbers evolved in a piecemeal fashion, with numbers initially allocated on an exchange-by-exchange basis for calls connected by manual operators. Subscriber numbers reflected demand in each area, with single digit telephone numbers in very rural areas and longer numbers in cities.
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There are no telephone numbers in the UK with an NSN length of 8 digits. Geographic numbers. Standard geographic numbers. Geographic telephone numbers in the UK always have nine or ten digits after the 0 trunk code or +44 international dialling prefix.
