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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- Country Code +44
| Non-UK callers replace initial '0' with +44 |
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STD CODE |
EXCHANGE NAME |
TELEPHONE NUMBER |
NAME/SERVICE | DESCRIPTION/COMMENTS |
| (0) 495 36 | Aberbeeg | 622 | * Hywel Clatworthy | Home number |
| (0) 224 | Aberdeen | 23654 | *Ria Gray-Jones | On a green NZ Tele 746 - OK to call 24/7 |
| (0) 239 71 | Aberporth | 200 | *Paul Evans - Home Number | Nortel IP2004 (unistim) before 9:00 pm |
| (0) 239 71 | Aberporth | 300 | Telephone operators song | |
| (0) 239 71 | Aberporth | 299 | UAX Test Number | Exchange test number for the UAX 13 |
| (0) 239 71 | Aberporth | 100 | Operator | Should respond to numbers for Luton (+3 digits), Rhydlewis (+3), York (+2) and Croydon (+2) |
| (0) 239 71 | Aberporth | 301 | Museum events line | Listing of forthcoming events at Internal Fire Museum of Power |
| (0) 495 32 | Abertillery | 3111 | *John Griffiths | Sipura ATA |
| (0) 970 | Aberystwyth GSC | 16 | Dial a Disk | |
| (0) 970 | Aberystwyth GSC | 192 | Directory Enquiries | http://www.aeolian-hall.myzen.co.uk/directory/ |
| (0) 970 | Aberystwyth GSC | 9193391 | Corris 299 | Not just a test number- as the numbers have changed! See 192 for other interesting welsh announcements etc. |
| (0) 970 | Aberystwyth GSC | 83390 | Glandyfi 390 | Changed numbers at Glandyfi via special OOA level. |
| (0) 970 | Aberystwyth GSC | 9193310 | All change at Rhandirmwyn | This secret unit on level 919 off Aberystwyth has many interesting announcements stored. See 192. |
| (0) 252 | Aldershot | 22112 | *Simon Chappell | First phone connected |
| (0) 336 | Alford | 2580 | *Ria Gray-Jones | On a green NZ Tele 746 |
| (0) 936 3 | Alsager | 4706 | *Paul Ash | First phone connected |
| (0) 936 3 | Alsager | 2002 | Milliwatt Test Tone | |
| (0) 266 | Ballymena | 2199 | Test Number - Inverted Ringing Tone | |
| (0) 248 | Bangor | 2121 | *David Lear | ATA |
| (0) 268 | Basildon | 8081 | Basildon UAX | Speaking clock service (running on a Raspberry Pi) routed via UAX 13 step by step switch. Between the hours of 23:30 & 08:30 service is provided by an Asterisk macro - the UAX is too noisy for night time! |
| (0) 420 4 | Bentley | 2108 | Lord Baden Powell | The home of Lord Baden Powell, Founder of the Scout Movement, in Bentley, Hampshire. Last message to Boy Scouts recorded in 1937. 24/7 |
| (0) 737 84 | Betchworth | 0000 | Test Number | |
| (0) 737 84 | Betchworth | 2216 | Workshop Desk | A red 300 type telephone located on the main desk in the workshop |
| (0) 737 84 | Betchworth | 8043 | Echo test | |
| (0) 737 84 | Betchworth | 2276 | Comms Room | A Jubilee telephone instrument located near the server rack. |
| (0) 737 84 | Betchworth | 2232 | House | A line presented on a Grandstream GXP2100 in the sitting room. (not after 2200hrs UTC please) |
| (0) 737 84 | Betchworth | 8081 | Speaking Clock | Pat Simmons |
| (0) 737 84 | Betchworth | 2231 | *Nicholas Booth | A line presented on a Grandstream GXP2100 in the workshop |
| (0) 737 84 | Betchworth | 2236 | Garden | A Gai-Tronics Titan weatherproof telephone outside the workshop |
| (0) 253 | Blackpool | 20002 | Blackpool Milliwatt Test Tone | |
| (0) 253 | Blackpool | 28393 | *Paul Ash | |
| (0) 766 81 | Blaenau Ffestiniog | 217 | *Eurwyn Jones | PAP2 ATA |
| (0) 246 82 | Bolsover | 2267 | *Andy Cooper | Grandstream 502 termination on a trunk on a BT Revelation PABX on which are my collection of old pulse dialling telephones |
| (0) 246 82 | Bolsover | 3814 | *Andy Cooper | Grandstream 502 termination on a trunk on a BT Revelation PABX on which are my collection of old pulse dialling telephones |
| (0) 420 3 | Bordon | 4555 | *John Nice | Tele 332 on a Grandstream HT502 ATA. |
| (0) 277 | Brentford | 213193 | *Matthew Taylor | Hosted on Mold Tandem |
| (0) 277 21 | Brentwood | 3193 | Brentwood | Matthews GPO 746 connected to UAX 13 rack. Last 3 digits routed via U13 selectors. No calls after 9pm please |
| (0) 924 85 | Bretton | 261 | Bretton Hall College | (which closed in 2007) |
| (0) 738 81 | Bridge of Earn | 30 | PABX6 ext 30 | pabx6 extn 30 , not connected at present - ringing tone only |
| (0) 900 83 | Brigham | 503 | *Dave Moll | Via an IAX ATA to an Omnicom 1515 PABX |
| (0) 601 8 | Brixworth | 299 | Ian Rivett | UAX Test Number |
| (0) 601 8 | Brixworth | 290 | *Ian Rivett | Main number |
| (0) 266 86 | Broughshane | 290 | Exchange Telephone | Via GEC SE50 PAX |
| (0) 266 86 | Broughshane | 234 | *Jim Robinson - House after 5.00pm | Via GEC SE50 PAX |
| (0) 266 86 | Broughshane | 299 | Test Number - Inverted Ringing Tone | Via GEC SE50 PAX |
| (0) 266 86 | Broughshane | 221 | *Jim Robinson - Workshop 10.00am - 5.00pm | Via GEC SE50 PAX |
| (0) 266 86 | Broughshane | 399 | inverted ring tone, NU if prompt alarm present | Tones from a ringing machine 2A |
| (0) 266 86 | Broughshane | 313 | Level 3 test number & guestbook | Recorded message and answering machine. |
| (0) 672 81 | Burbage | 241 | Stephen Clark | IRSE |
| (0) 282 | Burnley GSC | 26363 | *David Toye (former number for George Foster Ltd) | Panasonic KX-T30810 PBX. Uses Cisco SPA112 ATA’s for IP dialling to SPA8800 ATA. Dialling ‘9192’ from a PBX extension seizes FXO Port 2 of the SPA8800 and returns C*NET dial tone. PSTN and C*NET lines share the same PBX trunks. No calls after 9pm please. |
| (0) 282 | Burnley GSC | 37085 | *David Toye | Panasonic KX-T30810 PBX. Uses Cisco SPA112 ATA’s for IP dialling to SPA8800 ATA. Dialling ‘9193’ from a PBX extension seizes FXO Port 3 of the SPA8800 and returns C*NET dial tone. PSTN and C*NET lines share the same PBX trunks. No calls after 9pm please. |
| (0) 282 | Burnley GSC | 50357 | Former number for Phone-In, Telecoms Sales/Service | Panasonic KX-T30810 PBX. Uses Cisco SPA112 ATA’s for IP dialling to SPA8800 ATA. Dialling ‘9194’ from a PBX extension seizes FXO Port 4 of the SPA8800 and returns C*NET dial tone. PSTN and C*NET lines share the same PBX trunks. No calls after 9pm please. |
| (0) 551 4 | Carno | 290 | *David Edwards | Currently a hosted ATA. No calls after 9pm please |
| (0) 601 4 | Chapel Brampton | 2190 | *Ian Rivett | PAP2 ATA |
| (0) 601 4 | Chapel Brampton | 2580 | *Dave Shawyer | Grandstream HT502 ATA |
| (0) 530 3 | Coalville | 2999 | Jon Sketchley | This number was the former kiosk in Memorial Square when Coalville was a manual exchange and the number was ported to the crossbar replacement. The coinbox has been removed and the number is terminated in the local radio station Hermitage FM on the switch |
| (0) 203 | Coventry | 22966 | Coventry 22966 | on Asterisk tandem |
| (0) 203 | Coventry | 26414 | Coventry 26414 | on Asterisk tandem |
| (0) 580 4 | Cranbrook | 291 | *Andy Matthews | PAP2 ATA |
| (0) 961 | cutel | 8888 | Matthew Test | A number for testing how configuration works |
| (0) 594 4 | Dean Forest Railway | 8081 | Dean Forest Railway | Pat Simmons Speaking Clock Asterisk macro. |
| (0) 594 4 | Dean Forest Railway | 8000 | Dean Forest Railway | "About the DFR" - this number is our default outbound Caller ID, calling it will get you a description of our exchanges. |
| (0) 594 4 | Dean Forest Railway | 801x | Severn Bridge Disaster | Change the last digit [0..9] to hear audio files describing the Severn Rail Bridge Disaster. This forms part of an interactive display about the disaster in the Dean Forest Railway Museum. |
| (0) 594 4 | Dean Forest Railway | 8082 | Dean Forest Railway | Gordon Gow - Australian Speaking Clock Asterisk macro. |
| (0) 455 7 | Desford | 161 | *Jon Sketchley | Desford, Leicestershire. Terminates on Line 5 of BT Pentara. Originally a subs number on Desford UAX13 which had subs on Level 1 |
| (0) 1-306 | DOMinion | 2580 | *Gerry Roberts | Office Telephone. No calls after 9PM GMT please. |
| (0) 1-333 | FEDeral | 0022 | Test Buzzer | near exchange. (Incoming Only) |
| (0) 1-333 | FEDeral | 9897 | Radio Workshop | (lines up daytime only) |
| (0) 1-333 | FEDeral | 2219 | Central Clearing Exch | daytime only as via cell-router |
| (0) 1-333 | FEDeral | 3377 | Data-loopback modem | also on DEC VT-terminal |
| (0) 1-333 | FEDeral | 5209 | K6 Kiosk | with 700 series POA phone. |
| (0) 1-333 | FEDeral | 7005 | Car pool | A dingy underground carpark in west london |
| (0) 307 | Forfar GSC | 16 | Forfar | Fofar GSC Dial a Disc |
| (0) 21-308 | FOUr Oaks | 0200 | *Mike Fletcher - Four Oaks Exch | The Four Oaks exchange is connected to CNet via a Supura SPA3000 to my TSX50 housed in my new telephone building. The following number ranges are presently active: 0200 - 0280, 0300 - 0340, 0401 - 0408. |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 201 | Glenprosen PO | Recorded message on PO number about Glenprosen U12 |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 216x | Village Kiosk | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 202 | Balnaboth House | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 218 | Glenprosen School | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 206 | Spott | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 200 | The Manse | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 205 | Grieves House | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 217 | Glentarry Lodge | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 213 | Forestry Commission | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 219 | Home Farm | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 210 | Runtleave House | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 214 | Craig Lodge | |
| (0) 575 7 | Glenprosen | 204 | Cormuir | |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 425290 | Gwaelod Mel service phone | T.O. in charge, Martin Loach. Due to a current mal-function in ckts.info code cannot be correctly shown as 086742 |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 425299 | Test Number | 1000 Hz tone intermittent. Due to a current mal-function in ckts.info code cannot be correctly shown as 086742 |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 425411 | Announcer 12a | An announcement found on eproms lurking in disused Tol B, worse for wear. Due to a current mal-function in ckts.info code cannot be correctly shown as 086742 |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 99500 | Bedtime story-Abingdon Transfer | Commentary on transfer of Abingdon manual exchange to crossbar, 1975. For many other interesting numbers to listen to consult the file mentioned on 192 at Oxford. |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 99388 | Harwell 388 | Special circuit to Harwell U12. For other interesting numbers see the directory on 192. |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 99400 | Last Call Abingdon 4 | The last call made on Abingdon manual exchange in 1975. |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 39549 | Frilford Heath 549X | Village kiosk. |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 99285 | Barton on Heath 285x | Special OOA circuit to Village Kiosk |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 994323 | Elsie Jones Abingdon exchange | Interviewed in 1970 |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 994325 | Eddie Birch in museum | Oxford telephone museum |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 99339 | Crawford 299 announcement | Recorded announcement after changeover of last strowger exchange in Scotland mainland. |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 994331 | Bedtime story-Atlantic Cable | Radio programme about the new Atlantic cable in 1956. Sir Gordon Radley, GPO Director General |
| (0) 867 | Gwaelod Mel MNDX | 994322 | Bedtime Story-End for Abingdon | Full item from Radio Oxford reporting on the transfer of Abingdon Manual Exchange to automatic 26th June 1975. |
| (0) 421 | HARRUK0CDS0 | 6425 | Modem listening - login with 'tfsi' and you'll be redirected to a BBS | |
| (0) 1-246 | Holborn | 8299 | Exchange Alarm Test Number | UAX Test Number. Inverted Ringing Tone if normal. NU Tone if alarm present. |
| (0) 1-246 | Holborn | 8290 | *Gerry Roberts | Exchange Telephone. No calls after 9PM GMT please. |
| (0) 1-246 | Holborn | 8209 | Exchange Alarm Test Number | Exchange Test Number. Inverted Ringing Tone if normal. NU Tone if alarm present. |
| (0) 537 50 | Hungarton | 299 | Test Number | |
| (0) 537 50 | Hungarton | 290 | Apparatus Room | Recording made at East Langton UAX |
| (0) 537 50 | Hungarton | 291 | Answering Machine | Vintage Answering Machine |
| (0) 537 50 | Hungarton | 211 | Test Desk | Cisco SPA525G2 |
| (0) 542 2 | Keith | 2480 | *Michael Last | Grandstream ATA connecting two telephones |
| (0) 203 33 | Keresley | 2221 | London 32 console | on London 32 PABX extn 221 |
| (0) 203 33 | Keresley | 2222 | Answering machine | on London 32 PABX extn 222 |
| (0) 203 33 | Keresley | 220x | London 32 tones | London 32 PABX tone demos (extn 200-209) - see switch description |
| (0) 926 | Leamington Spa/Kenilworth/Warwick | 52858 | *Graham Gould | ATA hosted on 0352 Mold Tandem |
| (0) 532 | Leeds | 788596 | *Don Bunce | |
| (0) 532 | Leeds | 58413 | *Malcolm Hindes, WHHR | Home phone - no calls after 9pm |
| (0) 532 | Leeds | 641002 | *William Carroll | Grandstream ATA connected to a Panasonic A624 with collection of old GPO telephones |
| (0) 522 | Lincoln GSC | 22141 | Listen Live UAX Exchange | Monitor the UAX13 (listen only). |
| (0) 522 | Lincoln GSC | 32260 | *Shuan BC | Office Mitel 5360 |
| (0) 522 | Lincoln GSC | 32265 | *Shaun BC | 24/7 Office Panasonic KX-UT133 |
| (0) 522 | Lincoln GSC | 22142 | Listen Live PABX Room | Monitor the PABX Room (listen only). PABX-1 & PABX-7 |
| (0) 522 | Lincoln GSC | 32264 | Narrowboat Hazel Grace | Yes this truly does ring a sip phone on a narrowboat. Dependent on location coverage. |
| (0) 974 | Llanon | 8299 | Llanon UAX | Llanon area UAXs are 0974x |
| (0) 974 | Llanon | 3192 | Directory Enquiries | At Crosswood UAX |
| (0) 974 | Llanon | 255299 | Neuadd Wyntog Test Number | MNDX 341 in its new home |
| (0) 1-354 | London ELGar | 1956 | *Simon Chappell | ELGar 1956 |
| (0) 1-523 | London LADbroke | 0002 | Milliwatt Test Tone | |
| (0) 1-523 | London LADbroke | 9605 | *Ivor Flint | Main number |
| (0) 1-580 | London LANgham | 4468 | Paul Ash | BBC Broadcasting House |
| (0) 1-526 | London LANgham 526 | 1000 | Main Number Paul Ash | C*Net working on IncrediblePBX Asterisk GMT 0800 - 2200 only please. |
| (0) 1-526 | London LANgham 526 | 1526 | *Ian Stubbs | C*Net working on IncrediblePBX Asterisk GMT 0800 - 2200 only please. |
| (0) 1-526 | London LANgham 526 | 4000 | Reception | C*Net working on IncrediblePBX Asterisk GMT 0800 - 2200 only please. |
| (0) 1-636 | London LANgham 526 | 6323 | MUSeum 6323 | Home number from 1981 to 1987 |
| (0) 1-580 | London LANgham 526 | 4468 | BBC Broadcasting House | The main telephone switchboard number in 1979 on a 24 Position PABX 3 |
| (0) 1-580 | London LANgham 526 | 5577 | BBC Publications | In 1979 The BBC Publications switchboard for the Radio Times and all publications available, i.e. copy of the BBC sign language course and video tape, or a BBC Foreign Language course with cassette tapes. |
| (0) 9363 | London LANgham 526 | 4706 | Alsager 4706 | This was the families first telephone number. |
| (0) 1-542 | London LIBerty | 1699 | THG | The Telecommunications Heritage Group - www.thg.org.uk |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 2130 | Monarch PABX Extensions | MONarch 2130 Office Telephone, terminated on Line 1 of a Answering Set 1A, fitted with a 782 MF telephone. (LN) |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 211X | Monarch PABX Extensions | MONarch 2110-2119 OK 24/7 BT MONARCH SYSTEM (LN) |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 210X | Monarch PABX Extensions | MONarch 2100-2109 OK 24/7 BT MONARCH SYSTEM (LN) |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 2137 | Monarch PABX Extensions | OK 24/7 (LN) |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 4123 | Speaking Clock | Speaking Clock (MONarch@TQY) |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 4898 | Monarch Console 1 | Console-1 (MONarch@TQY) |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 4896 | Monarch Console 2 | Console 2 (MONarch@TQY) |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 0125 | Office & House PABX | BT Revelation I/C 5 |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 0126 | Office & House PABX | BT Revelation I/C 6 |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 0127 | Office & House PABX | BT Revelation I/C 7 |
| (0) 1-606 | London MONarch | 0128 | Office & House PABX | BT Revelation I/C 8 |
| (0) 1-636 | London MUSeum | 6323 | Paul Ash | London MUSeum |
| (0) 034 | London Radiophone | 31222 | Iain MacDonald | Mobilephone running SIP app |
| (0) 1-657 | London Sanderstead & Selsdon | 7000 | *Alex Clark | Not after 9pm GMT please |
| (0) 1-738 | London SEVen Kings | 6736 | *John Chenery | Not after 9pm GMT please |
| (0) 1-738 | London SEVen Kings | 2208 | John Chenery | Not after 9pm GMT please |
| (0) 372 31 | Long Buckby | 211 | *Terry Billington | Home number |
| (0) 582 | Luton | 31291 | Luton Town Hall Switchboard | PABX3 Removed from LTH in the 1980s |
| (0) 582 | Luton | 31292 | LTH Ex 292 | 746 in the IF Museum Telecoms Shed visitor area |
| (0) 582 | Luton | 31242 | Luton Town Hall Ex 242 | 746 in the IF Museum Telecoms Shed visitor area on the ex Luton Town Hall.Nene Valley PABX3 |
| (0) 622 | Maidstone | 61818 | *Andy Matthews | PAP2 ATA |
| (0) 582 84 | Markyate | 227 | *Gerry Bolger | Not after 9pm UK time please. |
| (0) 036 | Midlands Radiophone | 6426 | Mike Fletcher - Radiophone | 0036 6426 works via a SIP 'app' on my mobile phone! |
| (0) 036 | Midlands Radiophone | 7524 | *Phil Dyer - Radiophone | Zoiper running on iPhone |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3530 | Vintage Answering Machine | Excerpt from 78 RPM record |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2290 | Apparatus Room | Recording made at Narborough TXS |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2190 | Meter Racks | Recording |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3296 | Reservoir Level | Telemetry device at reservoir - indicates depth of water. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2199 | Test Number | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3199 | MAC Test Number | Special test number used by Maintenance Analysis Computer for centralised network fault finding. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2000 | *Rob Grant | Living Room Phone (answering machine after 9pm). http://robgrant.ddns.net/tones/ |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3865 | Divert-a-Call | Standard recording from a Divert-a-Call call diversion machine used in analogue exchanges in UK. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3900 | Congestion Announcement Bristol | Vintage recording |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3903 | Scarborough Fire Announcement | 1990. Scarborough public telephone exchange suffered a catastrophic fire. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3904 | Pay Tone Demo | Pay On Answer Coinbox - tone heard when payment was required. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3901 | Congestion Announcement London | Recording of vintage announcement |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3905 | Sweep Oscillator Test No. | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3906 | Continuous Ring Tone | Ringing Machine No. 2A - demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3911 | Speaking Clock Demo 1 | Vintage recording. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3912 | Speaking Clock Demo 2 | Vintage recording. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3913 | Speaking Clock Demo 3 | Vintage recording. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3914 | Speaking Clock Demo 4 | Vintage recording. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3916 | Dial-a-Disc recording | Vintage recording 1971. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3917 | Leicester SCA Closure | Vintage recording 11th Jan 1994. Announcements for Leicester Short Code Access closure. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3915 | Reading CNA | Vintage recording. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3920 | AT&E PAX Dial Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3921 | AT&E PAX Ring Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3918 | CNA 0240 29 | Vintage recording. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3919 | Leicester 5 fig to 6 fig Annct | Vintage recording. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3927 | PABX No. 6 Busy Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3926 | PABX No. 6 Ring Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4901 | 2VF Demo 78 RPM Record | Demonstration of 2 VF Signalling System taken from 78 RPM Gramophone Record 1957 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4902 | Automatic Announcements | Gramophone Record 1957 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4903 | Miss Ethel Cain | Ethel Cain (winner of The Golden Voice Award) teaches you how to speak proper... Gramophone record. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4904 | 80th Anniversary of The Speaking Clock 2013 | Historic |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4905 | GPO Telephones | Gramophone Record telling you all about GPO Telephones |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4906 | Intro to GPO 1954 | For new employees at GPO. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3999 | Info about this exchange | Visit me at https://sites.google.com/site/tonesplus/home |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2123 | Local Time | Speaking Clock - Rob Grant |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3993 | Guestbook | Leave your comments/suggestions after the tone! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4907 | A BT Christmas Carol | Poignant tale... |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2003 | Echo Test | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4909 | TMC SSU Announcements | PYE TMC Supplementary Services Unit - Voice Prompts |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4910 | European Tones Demonstration | Old GPO information line |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4912 | Datel Tones Demo | Old GPO information line |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4911 | USA Tones Demo | Old GPO information line |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3490 | 1980s Answering Machine | Family Guy stuff - 3490-3494 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3332 | High School Answering Service | Comedy |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3334 | Comedy Automatic Answering | Comedy |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3491 | Alan Rickman | Family Guy stuff - 3490-3494 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3492 | Peter and Consuela | Family Guy stuff - 3490-3494 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3493 | Yearly Call to Aunt Helen | Family Guy stuff - 3490-3494 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3494 | Mr Herbert messages | Family Guy stuff - 3490-3494 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2222 | Update Line | Not updated very often but worth a try! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2626 | Alliance & Leicester | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2291 | Crossroads Motel | Adam Chance lives on... |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3331 | ATV Answering Service | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2002 | Milliwatt | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2592 | Test Number | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3930 | Ring Tone Medley | All your favourite Ring Tones back-to-back! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4567 | Crackles | Crackle and Noise Montage |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4908 | Transit MF Tones | Tones heard in background on ancient international call |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3667 | Montfort TXK1 | Vintage 1980's recordings of various parts of a crossbar exchange in Leicester. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3668 | Hells Bells | A Radio History of the Telephone (parts 1 to 8) |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2672 | Organic Sonic Collective | Top Ten Hits |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4980 | Lily Tomlin | Lily Tomlin as Ernestine the Telephone Operator |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4965 | Open Source Telephony | Using Asterisk and VOIP by Daryll Strauss / SCALE 3x |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4976 | Telephone Talk | by Kristen Hammer & Denilso de Lima |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2721 | Misc Vintage Tones | Copy of a cassette I made in the early 1990's |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2236 | Test Number | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3192 | Test Number | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3330 | Maples Surgery | Contradictory Doctors Surgery Line |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3401 | Test Number | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3531 | Your Call Is In A Queue | Comedy |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3531 | Les' Answering Machine | From Evan Doorbell |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3666 | Vintage Radio Programs IVR | Select a Radio Program and enjoy! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3721 | Lots of Tones etc | Rob Grants Telephone Tone Menagerie Medley |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3734 | Miss Trisha | Fully Equipped and Fully Experienced |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3922 | AT&E PAX Busy Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3925 | PABX No. 6 Dial Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3928 | PABX No. 6 NU Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4174 | Dial Intergalactica | Call forward into outer space |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4199 | Test Number | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4545 | Crosstalk | Evington Exchange cable fault 1989 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4900 | Penetration | Mr Concept's cover of 'Penetration' by The Ventures. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4950 | Thomas Watson | Historic recording of Thomas Watson |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2280 | SSAC9 Simulated call | Simulation of Signalling System AC9 call using 2280Hz. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4111 | Lenny | Call me any time for a chat |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4919 | Pulse Generator 23A | Portable Pulse Generator for use with Printer Meter Check |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3940 | NT-104 Dial Tone demo | Nippon Telephony Inc/Newtech NT-104 ‘Easyswitch’ Intercom/PABX Dial Tone demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3941 | NT-104 Ring Tone demo | Nippon Telephony Inc/Newtech NT-104 ‘Easyswitch’ Intercom/PABX Ring Tone demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3942 | NT-104 Busy Tone demo | Nippon Telephony Inc/Newtech NT-104 ‘Easyswitch’ Intercom/PABX Busy Tone demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3943 | NT-104 Music on Hold demo | Nippon Telephony Inc/Newtech NT-104 ‘Easyswitch’ Intercom/PABX Music on hold demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4141 | GLOBAL HELPDESK! | Friendly Advice from Caring People! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3950 | Ringer 2A Dial Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3951 | Ringer 2A Ring Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3952 | Ringer 2A Busy Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3953 | Ringer 2A Cont Ring Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3954 | Ringer 2A Inverted Ring Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3955 | Ringer 2A Number Unobtainable Tone | Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3960 | BT 2+8 Dial Tone | 2+8 Keysystem Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3961 | BT 2+8 Ring Tone | 2+8 Keysystem Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3962 | BT 2+8 Busy Tone | 2+8 Keysystem Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3963 | BT 2+8 Number Unobtainable Tone | 2+8 Keysystem Tone Demo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2111 | Conference Call | Open Party Line |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4981 | Random Tunes by Mr Concept! | A selection of on hold music from CONCEPT CITY : https://sites.google.com/site/openupthenetwork/ |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8923 | Medieval Time | Clocke of the hours |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8928 | Medieval Music | ‘Anthem for a Simpleton’ |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8900 | Introduction | PlantageNet - Medieval Speaking Engine introduction... |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8909 | Medieval Music | A selection of Bladderpie and Crumhorn Hits |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8904 | CLI Readback | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8903 | Utterance Repeater | Medieval echo test |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8973 | Leonardo Square | Bird sounds in a medieval square |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8917 | Oral Entrapment Device | Your words shall be heard and heeded upon |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2729 | 16 Sound Effects | Wilkinson's Novelty Sound Effects Box |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4913 | European Calls Info | Vintage announcement - Making calls to Europe guidance - Freephone 2070 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4914 | USA Calls Info | Vintage announcement - Making calls to USA guidance - Freephone 2071 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4175 | Pat Fleet novelty announcement | Rib tickling spoof announcement by Pat Fleet |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2004 | CLI Readback | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8902 | Medieval Milliwat 1066Hz | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4112 | CLI Readback | Reads your CLI back... |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4998 | BBC World Service | Live Feed |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2760 | Daniel O'Donnel | Everything You Could Wish For Yourself |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8927 | Confessions Box | Leave words to be absolved |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2991 | DTMF Test | Reads back DTMF digits dialled |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3103 | 78 RPM Record | The Telephone No Ring - Ziggy Talent - Vaughn Monroe's Orchestra |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3104 | 78 RPM Record | Lady of the Telephone |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3100 | Classic MOH | Music on Hold |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3101 | MOH Jukebox | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3102 | Sankyo MOH | Music on Hold music box culled from YouTube |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3333 | PO Test Transmission | Test Number |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3335 | 78 RPM Record | Major records - Telephone Bells |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3337 | 78 RPM Record | Cohen on Telephone Etiquette |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3338 | 78 RPM Record | Cohen at the Telephone |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3339 | Staines Telephone Exchange | Staines Telephone Exchange Sound Sculpture - Saturday Live |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3340 | Brentwood Telephone Exchange documentary | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3965 | RT with EET Bleedthrough | Ring Tone |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3966 | AC9 CSA Clear | AC9 signalling - Answer tone - lady speaks then clears. Courtesy of Noel Edmonds Prank Calls! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3967 | AC9 CSA Medley | Various calls answer with AC9 CSA tone 'blip'. Courtesy of Noel Edmonds Prank Calls! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4101 | Windsor Hum | Documentary by 20KHz #03 Windsor Hum |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4102 | Space | Documentary by 20KHz #11 Space Sounds |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4982 | Talk Radio | Streaming Audio |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4103 | Spooky Sounds | Documentary by 20KHz #27 Spooky Sounds |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4104 | Documentary | Documentary by 20KHz |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4105 | Muzak | Documentary by 20KHz #34 Muzak |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4106 | ASMR | Documentary by 20KHz #40 ASMR |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4107 | The Theramin | Documentary by 20KHz #52 The Theremin |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4108 | Sonic Utopia | Documentary by 20KHz #109 Sonic Utopia |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4109 | The Buzzer | Documentary by 20KHz The Buzzer |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8081 | Speaking Clock | Pat Simmons |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3277 | British Methane | Frighteningly realistic IVR Maze |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3279 | Decision Maker | Yes or No? She decides... |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4703 | Recordings of Noise | Elmer Cat's Noise from YouTube |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4704 | International Call Noise | Metering Over Junction noise on vintage UK International Call |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4510 | Misc Announcements from Canada | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4511 | Misc Announcements from USA | Includes other World Zone 1 Countries |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4512 | Misc recordings from World Zone 2 | International recordings of tones and announcements |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4513 | Misc recordings from World Zone 3 & 4 | International recordings of tones and announcements |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4514 | Misc recordings from Sydney | International recordings of tones and announcements |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4515 | Misc recordings from World Zone 5 | International recordings of tones and announcements |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4516 | Misc recordings from World Zone 6 | International recordings of tones and announcements |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4517 | Misc recordings from World Zone 7 | International recordings of tones and announcements |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4518 | Misc recordings from World Zone 8 | International recordings of tones and announcements |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4519 | Misc recordings from World Zone 9 | International recordings of tones and announcements |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8010 | Cromer UK Daily Tide Times | AGI Script reads BBC Web Page then Text2Wave/Festival converts text to speech. It's slow but works! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3231 | Sine Wave Tones | Rising frequencies |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3232 | Sine Wave Tones | Random Frequencies |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4114 | Muzak | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4991 | Radio Station IVR | Misc Streaming Radio Station IVR |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3501 | Ring Tones | Selection of Toy Telephone Ringtones |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3502 | Recordings of Calls | Fone79 Misc Vintage Calls in USA |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3503 | Calling London | Artistic Telephonic Sound Collage |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3504 | Fantastic Fone Funnies | Wacky Answering Machine Tunes |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3505 | Adventure Game | IVR Adventure Game |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3506 | Misc Answering Service Recordings | Soundgrabs Found Answering Machines |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3507 | Fun with Thatcher | Margaret Thatcher random words |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3508 | Lyndon B Johnson Whitehouse Recordings | Random selection of recordings from the Whitehouse phone lines |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3509 | Vintage Radio Commercials | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3511 | Whitehouse Crossed Lines | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3512 | Call Centre Sounds | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3513 | Noise Recordings | Elmer Cat’s Noise File IVR |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3532 | Pulse Click | Pulse click Põlva County Estonia - pulsing click sound on old telephone wires by John Grzinich |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3519 | Early Text to Speech | https://archive.org/details/HeeSawDhuhKaet - Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. 1963 |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3516 | Alexander Graham Bell - Hear My Voice | Vintage Recording |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3514 | Worlds First Talking Clock turns 80 | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3515 | Text to Speech | Donald-Sherman-orders-pizza-04-12-1974 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htP57yTTLFo |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3517 | Dave Allen on the Phone | Warning - contains adult content! |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3518 | Telephone Effects 78 RPM record | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3520 | Off The Hook - Program about Telephones | 1989-07-25 https://www.wbai.org/ (Technical fault at beginning - station just playing music - but program does begin later) |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3521 | Off The Hook - Program about Telephones | 19881007b https://www.wbai.org/ |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3522 | Off The Hook - Program about Telephones | 19890725 https://www.wbai.org/ |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3523 | Off The Hook - Program about Telephones | 19931222 https://www.wbai.org/ |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3524 | Off The Hook - Program about Telephones | 19940202 https://www.wbai.org/ |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2766 | Madame Julia Fortune Teller | |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2124 | Local Time | Speaking Clock - Gordon Gow |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2125 | Local Time | Asterisk Time |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3422 | Colin Phones a Friend | Gripping listening from 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 8181 | Test Number | 8181 Jingle |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3525 | Speaking Clock 1954 | Short documentary from British Pathe News |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3526 | Ethel Cain - Voice of the Speaking Clock | British Movietone News - Ethel (Jane) Cain wins 1935 competition to be the voice of the UK Speaking Clock. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4970 | KZSU Radio Station | Live feed from California |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4971 | KPFA Radio Station | Live feed |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3341 | Messages | Found messages from ancient Panasonic answering machine |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3342 | Payphone Recognition Tone | (simulated recreation) |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3970 | Opticom 7 Answerphone | Opticom 7 Answerphone - not taking a message |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3971 | Opticom 7 Answerphone | Opticom 7 Answerphone - taking a message |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 4000 | STD Test | STD Test Number c/o Andrew Emmerson |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 3105 | Sankyo Music on Hold | Sankyo clockwork music on hold box bought from eBay. |
| (0) 537 29 | Narborough | 2600 | *David Toye | No calls after 9pm UK time thanks. |
| (0) 974 | Neuadd Wyntog | 8299 | Llanon UAX | Llanon area UAXs are 0974x |
| (0) 974 | Neuadd Wyntog | 3192 | Directory Enquiries | At Crosswood UAX |
| (0) 974 | Neuadd Wyntog | 255299 | Neuadd Wyntog Test Number | MNDX 341 in its new home |
| (0) 603 | Norwich | 45575 | *Simon Shreeve | Original Home number |
| (0) 603 | Norwich | 45575 | *Simon Shreeve | Hosted ATA |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 8091 | Oxford Weather Line | Listen to the weather forecast from July 1970, 40 years old and still typical! Probably played on the worn out tape of an announcer 9A! |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 20002 | Milliwatt | |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 20003 | Echo test | |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 8081 | Gwaelod Mel speaking clock | |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 16 | Dial a Disc | |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 8021 | Traffic report | The London area traffic report for December 28th 1970 |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83123 | TELMAN OXFORD | Telex terminal for Oxford Telephone Manager |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83123 | Telex message | These numbers are experimental numbers which give test messages for teleprinters connected by modem or other AFSK unit. This one is 50 baud V21 answer mode |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83456 | Telex message | Telex 50 baud V21 originate mode |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83175 | Telex message | Telex 75 baud V21 answer mode |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83110 | Ascii message | ASCII QBF 110 baud NP 2SB V21 |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83200 | ASCII message | ASCII QBF 200 baud NP 2SB V21 |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83300 | ASCII message | ASCII QBF 300 baud NP 2SB V21 |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83170 | RTTY message | RTTY QBF 50 baud European low AFSK tones |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83800 | RTTY News | Not yet implemented |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83470 | RTTY message | QBF 45 baud European low AFSK tones |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83270 | RTTY message | RTTY QBF 50 baud USA high AFSK tones |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 83870 | RTTY message | RTTY QBF 45 baud USA high AFSK tones |
| (0) 865 | Oxford GSC | 192 | Directory Enquiries | http://www.aeolian-hall.myzen.co.uk/directory/ |
| (0) 738 | Perth | 8081 | Speaking Clock | Unix time speaking clock on my * server |
| (0) 977 | Pontefract | 2211 | *Colin Butterfield | Currently a Tele 782 on an FXS port on an ATA |
| (0) 766 | Porthmadog | 2280 | Peter Freeman, WHHR | |
| (0) 766 | Porthmadog | 4790 | Malcolm Hindes, WHHR | |
| (0) 737 | Redhill | 8081 | Speaking Clock | Pat Simmons |
| (0) 737 | Redhill | 8082 | Asterisk time | Read by the Asterisk server |
| (0) 737 | Redhill | 0000 | Test Number | |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 70220 | BT Inspiration - extn 20 - Study | BT Inspiration Digital PABX (8+18) - System Phone |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 70226 | BT Inspiration - extn 26 - Garden and Garage | Tele 745 (External Waterproof Wall Phone) and Tele 741 (Internal Ivory Wall Phone) in a Plan 1A configuration |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 45111 | *Steve Barlow - Best Contact Number | Calls only between 10am and 10pm UTC/GMT please |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 70201 | Littleborough ATE Rest Room (Linksys PAP2) | Littleborough Exchange (LFC) - 0706 7xxxx was a Non Director Satellite Exch. off Rochdale GSC and part of the Rochdale GSC Link Numbering Scheme. Normally on this number at "Brew Time" (9.30 - 10.00 & 14.30 - 15.00) |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 17070 | CLI readback - 24/7 | Reads back to you your Calling Line Identity |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | Steve Barlow | Rochdale GSC (RO GSC) - Opened 7th Dec. 1965 with subs on 4xxxx & 5xxxx. Rochdale Meadows (RO MEA) 3xxxx, Littleborough (LFC) 7xxxx and Todmorden (TOD) 81 2xxx, 3xxx & 4xxx ATEs | |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 8075 | Date & Time from my Asterisk - 24/7 | Alison (I think that is what she is called...) reads out my Asterisk Date and Time |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 35111 | Rochdale Meadows SFC | Rochdale Meadows ATE (0706 3xxxx) was on the 1st Floor of the HPO (Head Post Office) building, the 2nd Floor housing the Manual Board. It was originally known as Rochdale Automatic Telephone Exchange when opened in 1928, closed circa. 1980 |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 8077 | An Ology - Beattie (Maureen Lipman) - 24/7 | A British Telecom Television Advertisement screened in 1987 |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 8078 | Telephone Sounds in Great Britain, Part 1, (1971) | 24/7 - Produced and narrated by Andrew Emmerson - 25 minutes long |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 8079 | Telephone Sounds in Great Britain, Part 2, (1971) | 24/7 - Produced and narrated by Andrew Emmerson - 30 minutes long. |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 8081 | UK Speaking Clock - Pat Simmons - 24/7 | Pat Simmons replaced Ethel Jane Cain to become the 2nd permanent voice of the UK Speaking Clock from 1963 until 1985 |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 8076 | Instructions for using the Dial Telephone - 24/7 | A recording issued in the 1920s to assist subscribers in using the new automatic telephone exchange system. It presents recordings of the various call progress tones provided by the network |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 8074 | Flyfishing by J R Hartley - 24/7 | This was a Television advertisement in 1983 for British Telecoms Yellow Pages Telephone Directory |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 78412 | K6 Public Telephone Box/Kiosk - circa: 1940 | Box CCB 14C & Telephone 238 - The K6 is on my Drive at the side of the House - so Calls only between 10am and 8pm UTC/GMT please |
| (0) 706 | Rochdale Central | 174 | Faultsman's Ring Back | You ring the Number (0706 174) you clear down your call, and it rings you back. |
| (0) 421 23 | Rownhams | 2323 | *Graham Jones | House phone. Nortel I2004 on unistim. |
| (0) 421 23 | Rownhams | 234 | *Graham Jones | Cordless phone in bedroom via Rownhams |
| (0) 421 23 | Rownhams | 218 | Leningrad | Old Soviet approximately milliwatt tone. A bit cranky! |
| (0) 421 23 | Rownhams | 211 | No1 of my 4 VEF phones | |
| (0) 421 23 | Rownhams | 212 | No 2 of my 4 VEF phones | |
| (0) 421 23 | Rownhams | 213 | No3 of my 4 VEF phones | |
| (0) 421 23 | Rownhams | 214 | No4 of my 4 VEF phones | |
| (0) 447 28 | Senghenydd | 278 | *Dave Humphreys | Currently on ATA |
| (0) 742 | Sheffield | 343856 | *Don Bunce | |
| (0) 543 43 | Shenstone | 264 | *Mike Fletcher - home | Please ring between 7pm and 10pm. |
| (0) 795 | Sittingbourne | 76692 | *Steve Walker-Manuell | Home number - PAP2 currently |
| (0) 754 | Skegness | 18 | PABX No.3 Switchboard | Assigned Skegness Manual - 10 Lines B/W in addition there are 20 Lines K&L using extra springs on jacks, red lamps, steady busy flashing ringing. |
| (0) 754 | Skegness | 16 | Dial-a-disc | Over forty tracks that are rotated dialy, between 18:00 and 08:00 and all day Sunday's |
| (0) 754 | Skegness | 19 | UAX No.6 Hunting | Sound of UAX No.6 hunting on level 0 for a free line. Starts with the alloter choosing a free connector, followed by stepping of connector to level 0, then hunting for a free line, finally the release. Listen hard for the NU buzzer in the background. |
| (0) 754 | Skegness | 161 | Dial loads of discs random start point. | |
| (0) 773 86 | South Normanton | 569 | *Michael Ashley | An old phone from my collection through an ATA |
| (0) 894 3 | South Shields | 65146 | *Don Lerche | Home number |
| (0) 640 83 | St Mary Mead | 239 | Dr Haydock | St Mary Mead 239 |
| (0) 640 83 | St Mary Mead | 248 | *Ian Stubbs | St Mary Mead 248 |
| (0) 843 81 | St Nicholas-at-Wade | 290 | *David Dibley | If no reply, try +45 9 6-41-00 before 9pm Danish local time. |
| (0) 580 6 | Tenterden | 3190 | *Nick Wellington Kent & East Sussex RailwayTelecom | Home line - OK to ring weekdays before 9PM UK Time - working via Sipura 2000 ATA. |
| (0) 706 81 | Todmorden | 2150 | PABX1 Exchange Telephone - Extn 50 | PABX1 only powered up between 10am and 10pm UTC/GMT |
| (0) 706 81 | Todmorden | 2120 | PABX1 NU Tone - 24/7 | PABX1 only powered up between 10am and 10pm UTC/GMT |
| (0) 706 81 | Todmorden | 2177 | PABX1 Busy Tone | PABX1 only powered up between 10am and 10pm UTC/GMT |
| (0) 706 81 | Todmorden | 2144 | PABX1 Ring Tone - 24/7 | PABX1 only powered up between 10am and 10pm UTC/GMT |
| (0) 706 81 | Todmorden | *Strowger* GPO PABX1 - 7+35 - Circa 1965 | Todmorden Exch (TOD) - 0706 81 2xxx, 3xxx & 4xxx - was a Non Director Satellite Exch. off Rochdale GSC - now a Strowger based GPO PABX1 (Private Automatic Branch Exchange) with Uniselectors, 2000 type Selectors... etc | |
| (0) 706 81 | Todmorden | 2111 | PABX1 - Operators Switchboard | PABX1 only powered up between 10am and 10pm UTC/GMT |
| (0) 803 | Torquay | 66498 | *Shane Warnes | Direct line to a telephone. Best number to contact me on from Sunday to Thursday during the day or evening up to 9pm. |
| (0) 803 | Torquay | 61123 | Manual Exchange | Line terminating on a 10+50 manual switchboard via an Ericsson step by step Strowger PAX |
| (0) 803 | Torquay | 61120 | Ringtone from Ericsson PAX | Has been modified to use a Dynamotor 44A |
| (0) 80361 | Torquay (Shiphay) | 202 | Speaking Clock | OK, 24/7 TIM 2000 on UAX13. |
| (0) 80362 | Torquay (Shiphay) | 291 | Test Desk | OK, 24/7 Phone at Test desk position. UAX13 Sub. |
| (0) 803 | Torquay GSC | 66375 | SIP phone in UAX13 | OK 24/7 Miltel 5312 |
| (0) 803 | Torquay GSC | 22123 | Speaking Clock | OK 24/7 TIM 2015. Directly connected to Extension on Monarch PABX. |
| (0) 803 | Torquay GSC | 65290 | Exchange Telephone | OK,24/7 Test Telephone at UAX13 |
| (0) 803 | Torquay GSC | 65064 | Shane Warnes | Home number, not after 21.00 hours Uk time. |
| (0) 8045 | Torquay Ring | 2290 | Exchange Telephone | Routes to UAX13. |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 0002 | Milliwatt Test Tone | |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 0003 | Wallington Echo Test | Wallington (Wallington & Carshalton) was manual until 11th December 1968. |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 6470 | Alex Clark | I will answer if I am there! |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 0004 | System Time | Gives the current system time on Asterisk - used for checking the server! |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 0005 | Speaking clock | A ten second interval speaking clock (Asterisk, not TIM). Should be accurate! |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 100n | Various tones for test | Replace n - 100Hz(1), 200Hz(2), 500Hz(3), 1KHz(4), 2KHz(5), SineSweep 20Hz-20KHz(6) |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 8000 | CallerID Readback | |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 0001 | Exchange Description | Details about the current setup for Wallington and Carshalton. |
| (0) 1-647 | Wallington and Carshalton | 0123 | Pat Simmons TIM | Very clear and accurate! |
| (0) 923 | Watford | 23684 | *Matthew Harrold | Hosted on Grandstream ATA |
| (0) 923 | Watford | 24326 | *Matthew Harrold | Hosted ATA line |
| (0) 272-624 | Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol | 000 | Pat Simmons Speaking Clock | This number is a placeholder for my default outbound caller id |
| (0) 6585 | Winceby | 290 | Subs 200-599 | 24/7 Winceby, part of the mid Lincolnshire charge group. STD code 06585. |
| (0) 606 81 | Winsford | 2240 | *Mike Ankers - home | PAP2 ATA |
| (0) 486 2 | Woking | 5161 | Innoxa Routine for Beauty | 1962 Australian radio |
| (0) 486 2 | Woking | 5162 | Hair Beauty with Anne | 1962 Australian radio |
| (0) 486 2 | Woking | 5163 | Your Health and You | 1962 Australian radio |
| (0) 486 2 | Woking | 5164 | The Berger Paint Show | 1962 Australian radio |
| (0) 486 2 | Woking | 5165 | Doctor James Wright | 1979 Austrailan radio |
| (0) 486 2 | Woking | 5168 | British Paints | 1962 Australian radio |
| (0) 486 2 | Woking | 3302 | Will Collison | SWITCHBOARD |
| (0) 535 8 | Worth Valley | 620 | * Adrian Rodsett | Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Telecoms |
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