[Brighton] A nerdy question on Brighton phone numbers

[wellquickwoody]

Definitely 100% completed in the early 90s. My nan and grandad were still on 5 digits in 90 for certain, as was my mum’s work .

Nah, late 70s, early 80s. Remember the change from my aunt saying ‘Brighton 61536’ to ‘601536’ as the extra digit made it too much of a mouthful to sau Brighton first!

 

[Eeyore]

Nah, late 70s, early 80s. Remember the change from my aunt saying ‘Brighton 61536’ to ‘601536’ as the extra digit made it too much of a mouthful to sau Brighton first!

Ha, yes, I was always taught to answer the phone with the number. Strange behaviour.

 

[Jam The Man]

Nah, late 70s, early 80s. Remember the change from my aunt saying ‘Brighton 61536’ to ‘601536’ as the extra digit made it too much of a mouthful to sau Brighton first!

Was certainly happening in that period, but as stated, my mums work and grandparents were still both on 5 digit numbers in 1990.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Fill your boots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

[Chicken Run]

IIRC Brighton town centre numbers were still 5 digits in the early 90’s, I remember Taxi number 27282.

 

[Chicken Run]

I also remember being able to dial a Worthing/Lancing number from the Brighton area by prefixing 91.

 

[amexer]

Staying on phones. Am thinking of giving up landline as 90% of calls received and made are now on mobile.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I was born in 1984 and remember our number changing from 25606 to 325606 so that would have been sometime towards the end of the 80s if I was old enough to understand phones.

 

[Garage_Doors]

It's surprisingly wrong. Woodingdean/Rottingdean were still five numbers in the mid 80s as was the centre of town. Being a pedant, I've just looked at the 1983 phone book in Ancestry.

I moved to Woodingdean in 1986 and they were still 5 digits then.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Ha, yes, I was always taught to answer the phone with the number. Strange behaviour.

Unbelievable to think those days we taught to say the number when answering a call. ask someone to repeat the're number now is akin to swearing in church. people are more secretive now.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I also remember being able to dial a Worthing/Lancing number from the Brighton area by prefixing 91.

Definitely and that went on into the early 90s I reckon. I remember having a Mrs who lived in Boring Goring in 1990 and I'm sure I called her by just adding 91 to the start of the number.

 

[Chicken Run]

-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;9311942]I was born in 1984 and remember our number changing from 25606 to 325606 so that would have been sometime towards the end of the 80s if I was old enough to understand phones.

Would I be right in thinking that would have been a town centre home?

 

[spongy]

Grew up in woodingdean, born in 1978.

I remember our number being 37955, I'm pretty sure it changed in the late 80's to 307955. Certainly before I went to senior school in 1990.

When Nynex came round and we got cable it changed to 706127 in the early 1990's.

Those numbers are long gone now.

 

[Trevor]

this is arguably not relevant as its not Brighton. I grew up in Bexhill born in 67 and I remember our phone number was three digits long

 

[Eeyore]

this is arguably not relevant as its not Brighton. I grew up in Bexhill born in 67 and I remember our phone number was three digits long

Definitely were a fair few in Sussex, although I'm quite surprised about Bexhill.

 

[Swansman]

Staying on phones. Am thinking of giving up landline as 90% of calls received and made are now on mobile.

Get rid of the cellphone instead. Its an invasive species that needs to be exterminated.

 

[Bodian]

Definitely and that went on into the early 90s I reckon. I remember having a Mrs who lived in Boring Goring in 1990 and I'm sure I called her by just adding 91 to the start of the number.

I also remember being able to dial a Worthing/Lancing number from the Brighton area by prefixing 91.

There were local codes for loads of places. I think the idea was that it saved you dialling the STD code for a nearby town, as many of your calls would be local-ish. I worked at Nat West till 1990, and having a local code for Worthing and elsewhere was a godsend, as otherwise you had to dial the whole number again and again for busy companies.

Incidentally - I still have a five-digit phone number now. Our STD code is 6-digits, but for anywhere local, we just dial five digits - whereas in Brighton I think you have to dial the whole lot - even locally?

 

[Chicken Run]

There were local codes for loads of places. I think the idea was that it saved you dialling the STD code for a nearby town, as many of your calls would be local-ish. I worked at Nat West till 1990, and having a local code for Worthing and elsewhere was a godsend, as otherwise you had to dial the whole number again and again for busy companies.

Incidentally - I still have a five-digit phone number now. Our STD code is 6-digits, but for anywhere local, we just dial five digits - whereas in Brighton I think you have to dial the whole lot - even locally?

Yes you have to dial the std code and number now.