The Phone Book

[Dod101]

To my amazement I have just had a phone book delivered to me, first time for years. BT say they have been producing one since 1880. I don’t remember.
This is also the last so maybe it ought to be preserved?

Dod

[88V8]

To my amazement I have just had a phone book delivered to me, first time for years. BT say they have been producing one since 1880. I don’t remember.
This is also the last so maybe it ought to be preserved?

We have preserved ours by slipping it onto the top of a kitchen cupboard, along with the penultimate edition, the last Yellow Pages and the last Thomson local.

V8

[Lanark]

It's a morbid thought that in 20 or 50 years from now someone could go through that book and try to find a number that still works, at some point someone will be the last working number left.

That's assuming landlines still exist in 20 years.

[UncleEbenezer]

To my amazement I have just had a phone book delivered to me, first time for years. BT say they have been producing one since 1880. I don’t remember.
This is also the last so maybe it ought to be preserved?

Dod

Produced in 1880, delivered today.

That's an impressive postal delay! Was it the 1880 Post Office operating Sunday deliveries?

[didds]

I cant recall the last time we had a phone book or a yellow pages delivered!

[didds]

To my amazement I have just had a phone book delivered to me, first time for years. BT say they have been producing one since 1880. I don’t remember.
This is also the last so maybe it ought to be preserved?

Dod

what part of the country are you in Dod? merely intrigued etc to see if there is any correlation - I cant recall the alst one we had

[Dod101]

I am in North Central Scotland.

Dod

[XFool]

It's a morbid thought that in 20 or 50 years from now someone could go through that book and try to find a number that still works, at some point someone will be the last working number left.

That's assuming landlines still exist in 20 years.

"20 years"? They are all due to be pulled by 31 December 2025, last I heard.

[didds]

I am in North Central Scotland.

Dod

Tx

Im now wondering just how large it is

[Dod101]

I am in North Central Scotland.

Dod

Tx

Im now wondering just how large it is

My new phone book is about 3/4 of an inch thick. Not much to it.

Dod

[rabbit]

Got the "Plymouth" version with the post this morning here in deepest rural east Cornwall. I haven't seen one in years. It was rather a thin volume with very few numbers in it compared with the glory days of proper telephone directories!