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Post by gwatts on Oct 28, 2011 15:53:48 GMT 1
Hope some of you have enjoyed 'Where in Grays'.
I am making this the last for a while - it is not as easy as the others??
Where in Grays was the first telephone exchange (not the one converted to Steeple View at the Hoggg lane/ London Road junction) and what town's name preceded the numbers.
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Post by muttley on Oct 28, 2011 16:10:42 GMT 1
I am sure that their used to be a telephone exchange on the corner of Bradleigh Avenue and Orsett road a while ago but not sure if that was the first one. As for the numbers question something in the back of my mind tells me that a lot of local numbers came under Stanford-le-Hope as that was the main exchange in the area.
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Post by ForeverBlue on Oct 28, 2011 16:17:11 GMT 1
I thought it was "Grays Thurrock"?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2011 16:19:59 GMT 1
both right
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2011 16:21:45 GMT 1
as things moved on there was Little Thurrock too
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Post by gwatts on Oct 29, 2011 18:27:29 GMT 1
Sorry you are wide of the mark this time.
The first exchange, in Grays, was in Brooke Road Grays - today its the Essex Dental Laboratory - I think it had originally 300 lines.
The numbers were all 'Tilbury' ones - due I guess to the coming of Tilbury Docks in the 1880s.
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Post by blueblood on Oct 29, 2011 22:18:19 GMT 1
congratulions George you set a question I suspect none of us would have been able to answer.
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