BT announces archive of British phonebooks dating back to 1880
British Telecom will publish a full archive of Britain’s telephone books online. The phone books date back as far as 1880 with the most recent being 1984.
The phone books will be available online for the first time ever and will enable people to trace their family trees and find out if former composers, writers or prime ministers lived in their house before them.
The earliest phone book in the archive (1880) consists of just 238 Londoners who subscribed at the time. A full UK phone book wasn’t available for nearly 20 years after that and even then only contained 81,000 numbers.
These phone books contained special instructions on how to conduct a telephone call and contained no number or addresses as everyone was connected via operators.
Todays phone books consist of over 140 editions 147 million copies floating around peoples homes.
You know what they say, the best things in life are free. . . You can search the online phone books for a monthly subscription. The service will be available through Ancestry.co.uk
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