When did telephone no.s change to prefix 01 ...

[mali]

Hi just need to know when phone numbers changed and have to have 01 in front of number. thanks

[jno]

that always used to be the London code, I think. Then they went through 081 and 071, then 0181 and 0171, and now 020 7 and 020 8. Which bit did you want?

[spudqueen]

No, they used to be 01 for London, 021 for Birmingham, 051 for Liverpool, 061 for Manchester etc. Other codes were eg 0772 for Preston. Sometime, I would guess in the late 80's, early 90's they changed to 0121 for Birmingham, and 01772 for Preston etc. Sorry, but I can't remember the exact date.

[mali]

area code numbers changed so 0452 became 01452 etc the second digit became a 1, when did this happen ?

[spudqueen]

That's just what I said! And I've found it! 16th April 1995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_telephone _numbers

[mali]

many thanks spudqueen !

[Panic Button]

When I was a kid my parents had a party line with next door. If they wanted to ring out the had to pick up the handset and listen to see if the neighbours were talking.

It was a heavy bakelite phone, with a maroon plaited lead and a little drawer which pulled out for your own handwrittten list of numbers.

[kempie]

The Director Exchange for CUNningham would have been 286

[dunwerkin]

I used to be a GPO telephonist on the Euston exchange. When someone dialled the exchange from a phone box a red light would appear on the switchboard. A gentleman asked for the dialling code for Dublin. I told him it was double 0, 01 followed the subscriber's number. The red light appeared a few minutes later the caller said "I can find the 0 but not the double 0" . And that is a true story.