What is your exchange name?
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
and
at black + white film in the first minute or so of lewisham high streetboots the chemist is still on the same site, although in a tired looking 1950s building.
although 123 being the speaking clock only (according to sources i've seen) happened when they did away with exchange names - previously it had been 846 (TIMe)
Other numbers that moves to 1xx included 364 (ENGineers) which became 151 for faults, and 867 (UMPire) for latest cricket scores
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petee
no gods, no malarkey
I'm interested because we had these in nyc too. mine was REgent 7, about a mile north of BUtterfield 8.
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Silas Loom
Man with glasses
The link in the OP no longer works, but then neither does the landline connection to which the retro phone was once attached. Can anyone find the list elsewhere? I can’t.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
try here (seems to be the same person, but a new website)
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Even when I worked for BT in north London (32 unbelievable years ago) we still used the names. In London when describing exchanges. The three number codes weren’t actually used for switching after the 50s or 60s so even Strowger ( electo mechanical) exchanges had register translators ( massive collections of relays that changed the loop disconnect dial impulses to the actual impulses needed to switch the call. In the Fringe areas ( outer suburbs on the bottom of the list above) you had Fringe Area Register Translators, which some wags found amusing. In my time common control exchanges of different types covered about 60% of London do this was moot
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
there are still a very few in the wild -
there's a hotel on Gower Street that has its MUSeum (as in British Museum) exchange number on display
and there's two shops on the ground floor of the Golden Lane Estate that show their CLErkenwell exchange numbers
there's a hotel on Gower Street that has its MUSeum (as in British Museum) exchange number on display
and there's two shops on the ground floor of the Golden Lane Estate that show their CLErkenwell exchange numbers
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