Workshop clearout / Closing down sale

http://www.prestigebmw.co.uk/

Hopefully of use to the suvvern contingent

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0208-xxx.... Arghh!

I tried 303 3030 in this mythical 0208 area but there's no such number,
oddly enough!

 

Ah, I'm not the only one that gets annoyed by that then?

 

I was thinking to myself that I'd been whooshed.

So for you in the UK, it's now 020-XXXX XXXX for those in London and G.
London?

 

Yes.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_telephone_code_misconceptions

 

Fascinating. I still recall just after 1979 when the Evil One seized
power, predicting that the 192 service (is that still Directory
Enquiries?) would cease to be free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_trunk_dialling

Ah ... those little pocket-sized cards with 'STD' codes on them.

I'm feeling old.

D.

 

If you want a guarantee of a never ending and pointless discussion on
a newsgroup or similar then talk about telephone codes.

It has been like that since 020 was introduced. Nothing "now" about
it despite thousands of people still getting it wrong. It's odd how
such a simple concept is so readily misunderstood.

Paul Corfield

 

You need a pocket card with codes on to tell you which kind of STD you've
got??

 

I had no idea that you could still dial local numbers in the UK
without the area code. France and CH both now require the full number
to be dialled.

But AFAIAC the 0208 thiung is annoying just because there are many
numbers that I know from way before the change that I remember in the
form 123-1234. It just rolls off the mental tongue that way. So it's a
damn sight easier to carry on remembering them like that and just
think of the 4-digit code changing from 0181 to 0208. Otherwise my
memory patterns need rewriting for each number.

So yes, I'm in the group that gets pissed off by london numbers being
written as 020 8123 1234. It's just _wrong_.
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No. It isn't.

Have you actually read the article?

 

Did you actually read my post?

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I wasn't in the UK when it was introduced. So whenever I've dialled a
London number, I've always done 00 44 before it (dropping the 0 obv).

 

YM WHItehall 1212.

 

Civilised places like Bristol had CBS exchanges as early as 1900.

A couple of interesting links:

http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/phreak/tenp_01.htm
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/freshwater/histuk.htm

 

My local Plodshop is 8427 1212. Are the others all/mostly XXXX-1212?

 

Bedford's B Division/copshop is 01234 271212, the County HQ is 01234
841212

 

She was right.

 

Crucially, when they changed things, they went

01
then
071 (central london), 081 (greater london)
then
020 7 (central london), 020 8 (greater london)

so it's hardly surprising if people think that's how it works. At the
time, nothing else under 020 was used.

 

Probably. The general pattern remains though.