{"id":30278,"date":"2023-01-30T23:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30278"},"modified":"2023-01-30T23:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:54:23","slug":"abingdon-telephone-subscribers-in-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30278","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Telephone Subscribers in 1928"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202313003.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202313004.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202313006.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis telephone directory would have been around 1928 when the telephone exchange was in East St Helen Street.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A. G Leach<\/li>\n<li>Barclays Bank Limited<\/li>\n<li>Alderman A.E Preston<\/li>\n<li>Morland &amp; Son<\/li>\n<li>Abingdon Borough Surveyor<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Somebody phoning from outside Abingdon would have their number connected by using the place and number such as &#8216;Abingdon 2&#8217;. This allowed calls to be placed initially through the local switchboard operator to the number and later by local or national dialling codes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202313007.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSome signs still show the original Abingdon national dialling code of 0235, which became 01235 on 16th April 1995 &#8211; known as PhONEday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202313103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nP.S. Thank you to Glenn for a picture of his bike bell from Braggs with the number Abingdon 34.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This telephone directory would have been around 1928 when the telephone exchange was in East St Helen Street. A. G Leach Barclays Bank Limited Alderman A.E Preston Morland &amp; Son Abingdon Borough Surveyor &#8230; Somebody phoning from outside Abingdon would have their number connected by using the place and number such as &#8216;Abingdon 2&#8217;. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}