Instructions for use
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Experimental notebook, 1896 - 1897
Early telephone directory
Post Office Telephones advertising material, 1930s
Phonecards, 1990s
National Telephone Company Midland province, staff dinner programme
Liverpool scrapbook
Model vans
Photograph albums, 1911 and 1932
London telephone directories
Bell's Telephone, edited by Kate Field
Victorian marketing
Shareholder register
The National Telephone Company issued this list of its subscribers in the Yorkshire district in 1888. The directory shows how extensive telephone use had become, just eight years after the issue of the first telephone directory - which only covered London and was just five pages long. It includes a list of subscribers to the Lancashire and Cheshire Telephonic Exchange Company's system, a company which was to amalgamate with the National Telephone Company in 1889.