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KNOWLE telephone dialling codes - does anyone know what the local dialling codes to other local exchanges were in the 1960/80's ? The Subscriber Trunk Dialling Code in those days for Knowle was 0564 5 And I know that there was at least one local code to Lapworth. These are needed as Knowle...
The old GPO Speaking Clock of the 1960's (with the voice of Pat Symmonds) is still working on the UK public network on its old code 8081 used outside Birmingham (Birmingham used 'TIM'/846 later changed to '123'). Just dial from your mobile/landline 0135283 followed by 8081 - a normal landline...
Anyone remember Birmingham 'Rectory' at Sutton Coldfield - the UK's first large electronic exchange - I was a senior commissioning engineer with Standard Telephone & Cables, there working on getting it up and running in the early 1970's. Used get visited by lots of folk from around the World to...
