We found quite an interesting little site the other day called Local Number Wiki - which describes itself as an information website dedicated to UK telecoms and local phone numbers.There was some fascinating information on there, including a bit of a history of British telecommunications, a brief history of virtual and local phone numbers in the UK, and a Did You Know timeline of telecoms in the UK over the last century or so.
Some fascinating little snippets included the first telephone book being published in 1880 with no phone numbers, just addresses, so you had to phone the operator for the details. Not surprisingly the first name listed was a gentleman in London! Ericsson (recognise the name?!) invented the telephone headset, red telephone boxes were created for King George VI's Silver Jubilee, 999 became the emergency number in 1937, and the centre of Great Britain, Dunsop Bridge in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, is marked by Britain's 100,000th BT payphone! (see the typically British plaque above!) Well worth a look at!
