British telecom bt telephone cards, named phonecard, were once the in thing to collect and telephone card collecting or fusilately as it was known, was one of the fastest growing hobbies in the uk with demand and prices for these credit card sized pieces of plastic rapidly increasing in value. The british phone book collection is a major resource for genealogy and family history, containing a nearcomplete set of united kingdom. That type of business is so easy to market i wouldnt even bother with the phone book. That way you dont need to deal with the people at the phonebook, who deal with advertising. An email to yellow pages, sadly yielded no response. If bt does keep phone records for that long then i will be making a request for that information. Search the phone book from bt to find contact details of businesses and people across the uk, or uk and country dialling codes. The bt phone book is the complete telephone directory listing for your area, and helps you find products and services from businesses you know as well as from those you dont, along with all the local residential numbers you need in the same book. Why dont you save large somes of money by stop sending out paper bt phone books and also help environment by wasting paper. British telecom has teamed up with webbased genealogy service. Bt phone directory remains popular despite rise of internet search options richard wray. It used a radio to link the mobile extension set, which could be up to 600 feet away, with the customers telephone line.
Bt launched phone disc, an electronic phone book on a cd and phone base, a dialup service connecting a customers terminal or pc to bts database via a modem and the telephone network. Containing in excess of 250 million names, the online collection will enable family history enthusiasts to track down relatives and the places where they lived. Librivox founded in 2005 is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record public domain texts. British telecoms first cordless phone the hawk came onto the market. Bt archives collection of phone books is the most complete set of british telephone directories in existence. Records after privatisation, of british telecommunications plc 19842001, and of bt group plc from 2001, continue to be preserved and made available for researchers in line with bts heritage policy. Bt is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is. British telecom became bt and welcomed the new identity of the bt piper. So ive just got off the phone to bt, i decided not to bother. You can still see copies of the phone books from 1880 to the present in person at the bt archives. Bt archives holds the phone book on microfiche for 19932000 so access to all phone books from their creation in 1880 to 2000 is through microfilm reels or. Have an opt in policy whereby people have to opt in to get a new paper bt phone book sent out. Bt puts old phone books online the register forums.
This collection contains british phone books published between 1880, the year after the public telephone service was introduced to the uk, and 1984, from the historic phone book collection held by bt archives. Please include a postal address and contact telephone number in your email. The number in question does not belong to me but i have been made aware under the data protection act that the. Bt is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all uk burial records since 1538. An out of area cross reference, for a single phone book, in bold type would be charged at. If you get your broadband or mobile phone from bt, you can get free wifi, so you can update facebook, check the football results and more.
Bt s historical phone books from 18801984 are available online. Bt phone books find contact details for companies and individuals in your town, city or region in the latest edition of the famous bt phone book. The british phone book collection is a major resource for genealogy and family history, containing a nearcomplete set of united kingdom telephone. You can access an online sussex telephone book, an online sussex telephone directory, and popular business headings.
A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phone book, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Lookup uk uk birth adoption contact register uk genealogy web uk electoral roll people lookup uk united states phone book. Display page, british telecoms radiopager with a digital message display, was launched. Images reproduced by courtesy of bt archives, london, england. Bt digital archives databases the university library. Nov 29, 2007 bt is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all uk burial records since 1538. Bts historical phone books from 18801984 are available online. Telephone directories contain addresses and phone numbers and can be quite helpful in locating living relatives or possible relatives with the same surname or a similar surname. The directory is preserved as part of the british phone book collection by bt archives. It is a workinprogress, with articles uploaded over time. Hi, i would like to find out if its possible to get access to bt phone records from 1987. Some of our prices are changing on 31st march 2020. Bt archives has been in a purposebuilt repository in holborn telephone exchange since july 1997. Searchable database of long distance calling codes for countries and.
Bt archives is an archive preserving the documentary heritage of bt and its public sector. Bt archive british telecom has teamed up with webbased genealogy service. The bt archive is a repository for articles and items from the nowdefunct the brunei times newspaper. Tech innovation bts history of telecommunications bt shop. All cross references will be charged at the same rate as a single directory entry of the same generic type.
While searching online might be the preferred option for some people, others still prefer the traditional method of searching through the bt phone book for names, numbers and addresses to make. Bt to mail letterboxfriendly phone book in july this article is more than 9 years old. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by name and address to be found. Find a person by searching the edited uk electoral roll, companies house, the phone book, and consumer data. May 20, 2010 bt to mail letterboxfriendly phone book in july this article is more than 9 years old. You have had too many unsuccessful attempts to login. Obviously elderly people might want to keep getting a pap. The bt phone book buy phone books by region at bt business. But if you have the unlimited anytime calls plan, youll pay half price with a change from 9p to 9. The main contributing factor was bt s decision to stop issuing bt phonecards altogether in 2002. The archive was created by bt in collaboration with coventry university and the national archives during a project funded by jisc.
Find the bt phone book for many different locations throughout the uk online at bt business direct. Change default contact source for bt phone book sy. Nov 03, 2018 the phone box now houses titles from cooking books to the classics and blockbusters to childrens books a similar story can be found in south london, where a local man named seb handley purchased a rundown telephone box from bt for. Discussion in general business forum started by sobie, sep 17, 2010. Aug 15, 2016 zip codes, state abbreviations, package delivery information. Bt phone books archive contains details from 1880 to 1984. Bt, the former british telecom, has put its archived telephone books dating back to 1880 online. While these books may be old enough to be in the public. The below list of books are surplus to requirements at bt archives and are available to members free of charge.
Calls to mobiles from your landline are going up from 18p to 18. Bt digital archives is a searchable digital collection of photographs, reports and items of correspondence preserved by bt since 1846. Bt launched phone disc, an electronic phone book on a cd and phone base, a dialup service connecting a customers terminal or pc to bt s database via a modem and the telephone network. The number in question does not belong to me but i have been. Opening days our public search room is open on mondays and tuesdays, 10. The account has been changed after much hassle, but my name has not been changed in the online phone book. The site was created in response to the shutdown of the brunei times website on 7th november 2016. When i added pn phone service to my bb package, i requested clarity on continuation of supply of the annual bt phone book.
The phone company in most cities publishes a directory of everyone in that area who has a listed phone number. Bt to mail letterboxfriendly phone book in july business. Jul 04, 2008 like the bt telephone book i decided that cancelling the yellow pages was the way forward for us. Bt archives head of heritage david hay added the books had always provided a unique snapshot of communities in the uk. I wrote to bt asking for the new name on my account, and asking for the change in the book.
Our public search room is open on mondays and tuesdays, 10. Bt archive books the institute of telecommunications. The british phone books, 18801984 collection is an important and fascinating addition to our online records and provides family and social historians with unique twentieth. The phone books date back to 1880 and contain 280 million names. Simply enter your search criteria in the sussex business phone book or sussex people phone book boxes below and click the search button to begin your search. We also provide a person search via an api to help with data cleansing, identity verification and other business requirements that require information on uk residents. Like the bt telephone book i decided that cancelling the yellow pages was the way forward for us. Pdf version of an information sheet on british phone books. This site allows users to search by area code or locality, displays area codes by state, and provides the time zone of area codes. A collection of data and miscellaneous media donated by individuals to the internet archive.
Tool for determining the area code of a locality, or the locality of an area code. Our catalogue can be used to search the thousands of documents, books, objects, images and films on subjects spanning the development of telecommunications, from the birth of the electric telegraph in the 1830s to the explosion of the internet and the rise of broadband britain. About british phone books, 18801984 this collection contains british phone books published between 1880, the year after the public telephone service was introduced to the uk, and 1984, from the historic phone book collection held by bt archives. Calls to uk landlines and the access charge for calls to service numbers will go from 15p to 15. I have changed my name, and wish to change it in the phone book. This collection contains british phone books published. However, a friend of mine gave me a telephone number to stop them completely which is 0800 671 444. Change default contact source for bt phone book sync found that my china imported mid running android 2. Apply for our corporate account to access the full electoral roll. British phone box libraries nothing in the rulebook. Wed also like to set optional analytics cookies to help us improve it and provide services like live chat support, and targeting. This was a commercial decision by british telecom, which was due to an increasing downturn in the use of the bt prepaid telephone cards as a way to make a phone call from a public telephone box.
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