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Old 13th May 2020, 9:46 am   #39
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Default Re: The space in the STD codes

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Originally Posted by Hermitcrab View Post
The Post Office often included a caveat in their Dialling Code Booklets: "Only codes which are authorised for use from the telephone you are using may be dialled". I reckon there were many cases where you could reach a local exchange using any of several different, though unauthorised, codes.
There were reports of people chaining multiple local codes and working their way across the country, for the price of a local call.

I remember in the public phonebox having to hold my finger under the Dialling Code on the board whilst mother dialled it slowly, then dialled the subscriber number. No point in writing the Dialling Code in the address book, as they varied depending on from where one was calling. We'd saved up twopences for the phone, and felt rather swizzed when they changed the phones to 5p.
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