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History
Kiosks & Payphones
Latest Additions
Line Jacks
Links
LST & House Phones
Miscellaneous
Museums
Network Serv. Codes
Nostalgia/Documents
Old Dialling Codes
Shared Service
Sounds
Speaking Clock
TAMs & Cordless
Technical Information
Telephones Pre-1960
Telephones 1960-80
Telephones Post-1980
Telephone Systems
Tools & Vehicles
Wiring Cabinets
Wiring Information

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ADDITIONS & UPDATES

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02/12/11 Further pictures added to the Tools & Vehicles page
04/11/11 Easikom loudspeaking telephone added to the
Loudspeaking Telephones.
27/10/11 Further pictures added to the Tools & Vehicles page & to the
Line Jacks page.
06/06/11 Updated and added to
Line Jacks page.
05/05/11 Updated A-Z index page.
03/05/11 Loudspeaking Telephones, House Telephone Systems & House Exchange Systems have now moved to their own page
02/05/11
List of call charges added. Additional text & information added to telephones pages.
16/03/11 By popular demand,
I have now begun adding user guides for some equipment, more to follow, when I get the time.
13/03/11 I have now completed the resizing of all the thumbnail pictures on the site - enjoy!
04/03/11 To improve the overall experience of using the site, I've now started to double the size of the thumbnail pictures displayed on each page. Please be patient though, with around 1500 photos to change, it's a slow & laborious process!
01/03/11 More West Midlands & Staffs. exchanges added to the Exchanges page & improvements made to the Kiosks/Payphones page.
28/02/11 The Exchanges page has been expanded to include all 47 exchanges in the Birmingham Telephone area.
27/02/11 Further pictures & literature added to the 1960-1980 Telephones page.
26/02/11 Corrected broken external links on the
Links page.
25/02/11 We have taken the opportunity to give the web site a make-over & revamp it. Further improvements continue.
24/02/11 Following us being briefly off-line due to problems with our old web hosting company, Telephones UK is now up & running again.
25/06/10 A new page has been added featuring the BT Norstar Meridian 8X24 Telephone System
18/04/10 Further pictures added to the Connection Boxes and Tools & Vehicles and
pages.
11/04/10 Further pictures of Jack Sockets added to the Line Jacks pages.
21/11/09 Further NTE pictures added to the Line Jacks pages.
25/10/09 Added new page with pictures of a UAX13 exchange that has been restored by Shane Warnes in Torquay.
07/02/08 Various new LJU, NTE and NTU pictures added to the
Line Jacks pages. Kindly sent in by Martin Pritchard.
29/10/07 BT Inphone brochures added to the Post 1980 Telephones page. Also added product brochure for the TSX50.
04/04/07 The Speaking Clock page has been updated to reflect the new voice of the BT Speaking Clock
18/03/07 More pictures added to the Tools & Vehicles and Exchanges pages.
12/03/07 Quick find section added to the
Pre-1960 and Post 1980 Telephones pages. More labels added to Dial Labels Page 2.
06/03/07 Pictures of Hack Green and Essex Secret Bunkers have been added to the Museums page.
16/02/07 A new page entitled Museums has been added, there is now a selection of four Telephone Museums to view.
11/02/07 A new Shared Service page has been added, dealing with Party-Lines, WB900 and DACS technology.
01/02/07 Further pictures added and tidy up
to the Post 1980 Telephones page.
25/01/07 Further pictures added and tidy up to the Pre-1960 Telephones page.
16/01/07 I am gradually adding a link to the N-diagram of an apparatus, where one is available. This is an excellent resource kindly made available by Sam Hallas, simply click on
18/12/06 Further audio (.wav) files added to the Sounds page.
10/12/06 Your chance to let us know what you think of the site - please complete our on-line survey. Further updates made to various pages.
07/12/06 The site has now been upgraded to the Supanames Premier package which comes with a monthly bandwidth allowance of 25Gb, this should overcome the recent problems that the site has been experiencing. As a result the restriction on viewing the larger images has been lifted.
17/11/06 The winner of the competition to find a new voice for the BT Speaking Clock, in aid of BBC Children In Need, has been announced.
26/10/06 BT announces it's competition to find a new voice for the BT Speaking Clock, in aid of BBC Children In Need.
02/06/06 A new History page has been added noting a few important dates in the history of UK Telecoms.
31/05/06 A new page has been added called Sounds, it contains wav files of tones, network announcements, telephone & equipment sounds.
29/03/06 Further pictures added to
the Post 1980 Telephones page and the Exchanges page.
17/02/06 Further pictures added to the 1960-1980 Telephones page & to the Dial Label page.
06/08/05 Further items added to the Nostalgia & Documentation page, courtesy of Ian Jolly
24/07/05 Links page updated and various corrections made to other parts of the site.
20/06/05 Further pictures added to the BT Vehicles and  1960-1980 Telephones pages.
02/06/05 Nostalgia now has its own page which includes a new section containing documentation such as old telephone bills.
20/05/05 Further pictures added to the BT Vehicles and Line Jacks pages.
10/05/05 Tools, Engineering Equipment & Vehicles have now moved here.
26/04/05 The number for the Speaking Clock service has changed and a new Acknowledgement page has been added.
19/04/05 Further additions made to the Dial Label pages, more to come soon!
11/01/05 Further items added to the Links page.
28/10/04 New Dial Label Page 3 created. Further items added to the
Miscellaneous page & the Dial Label Page 2.
21/10/04 Further items added to the Nostalgia section of the Miscellaneous page.
04/10/04 Further items added, mainly to the Miscellaneous page.
14/05/04 Further pictures added to the Pre-1960 Telephones page and the Bells page.
03/05/04 Further pictures added to the 1960-1980 Telephones page and the Bells page.
12/04/04 Further pictures added of BT Vehicles & the Exchanges page has been updated
09/04/04 Further items added to the
Miscellaneous page & the Dial Label page.
20/03/04 Further items added to the Pre-1960 phone pages thanks to Dean Conquest.
23/02/04 To take advantage of higher screen resolutions I have started to make some of the larger pages slightly wider.
11/02/04 Additions made to the Line Jacks page.
01/02/04 The web site has been given a restyle to celebrate it's 2nd anniversary. 
14/01/04 New page added about identification marking on telephones. Addition to the Payphones page.
12/01/04 Additions made to the Systems & Dial Label pages & some corrections made.
10/01/04 New page created for Latest Additions.
08/01/04 Specifications for Line Jack Units added to the Line Jacks page.
04/01/04 Further pictures have been added to the 1960-1980 phone page.
15/11/03 Added details of a new book called 'Hold the Line Please' written about the 'Hello Girls' at the Birmingham GPO Exchange in the 1940s by former telephone operator Sally Southall.
05/11/03 Further items added to the Miscellaneous & 1960-1980 phone pages.
29/10/03 Details added on how to change the system time on the Meridian.
28/10/03 New page added detailing the features of the Viscount & Tribune.
21/10/03 Various further additions to Miscellaneous & other pages.
12/10/03 Bells, Bellsets, Ringers & Tone Callers now have their own page.
04/10/03 Details on the old and new design of 746 telephone  have been added.
29/09/03 The A-Z Index and the Sales & Wants page has been updated.
28/09/03 New pictures have been added to Telephones and Miscellaneous.
27/09/03 The Links page has been modified.
15/09/03 Further additions to the Dial labels and Systems pages. 
11/07/03 The BT & Telewest Network Service Codes page has been revamped. 
23/06/03 A page on converting phones to "new style" wiring has been started. 
04/05/03 A page on the TSX50 system has been added.
21/04/03 Samples of the colours that were used on 700 series phones have been included. 
10/04/03 The section on Telephones has now been split into three pages and renamed Telephones: Pre-1960, 1960-1980 & Post 1980.  
24/03/03 To easily see when new pictures have been added, they are now labelled:

14/02/02 TelephonesUK.co.uk domain registered.

 

 

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