Neil Brown17h ago
Have you ever...
Used a telephone book
Spoken to a (human) telephone operator
Reversed charges on a call
Made a call from pay phone / phone box
Received a call on a pay phone / phone box
Used a phone card
Dialled from one exchange to another to route a call
Used a rotary dial phone
Poll ends at .
Show threadNeil Brown

In terms of dialling through exchanges to make calls, see

https://www.ringbell.co.uk/nostalgia/AAZ.htm

STD Analogue Call Routing

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Show threadDavid Thomson14h ago
@neil now that’s the kind of site the internet was made for!
Show threadAnneH14h ago
@neil Nope. Never did that. Only local. My parents' number was [village name] 241.
Show threadbeaiouns 13h ago
@neil oh damn i thought you meant like breaking out of a voicemail box and dialing out from the IVR
Show threadNeil Brown13h ago
@beaiouns Ooh, good point, I should do a voicemail poll some time!
Show threadSimon Greenwood12h ago
@neil
When we moved to Doncaster in 1974, the phone book was half sized and about 100 pages. There were still outlying villages that had five and six figure dialling codes and two figure numbers. We got STD dialling in 1978 and the phone book was merged with Barnsley a couple of years later.
Show threadsolastalgia kris ☀️🧘🚲12h ago

@neil

I checked yes on all of them except this one, still don't understand what it means lol

Show threadAmy Worrall9h ago
@neil I have the vaguest of memories of doing that. My childhood phone number was Bridgemere 347, and I'm pretty sure that there was a local code of 85 to be able to direct dial it from some areas…