It wasn't that long ago you couldpick up the phone and speak to anyoneyou wanted – be it Sir Win... Hi, is that Winston Churchi
It wasn't that long ago you couldpick up the phone and speak to anyoneyou wanted – be it Sir WinstonChurchill, Laurence Olivier or eventhe man who started it all, AlexanderGraham Bell.
Aclose reading of the1941 edition alsoreveals that you couldhave phoned a CaptJohn Terry, of London,a number of GeorgeBushes and JamesKirks, as well as theodd Lily Allen.
Back then, people could still ask togo ex-directory but there was littlepoint because numbers were createdfor names in strict alphabetical order.
Ancestry.co.uk spokesman JoshHanna believes it will provide aunique snapshot of 20th-century life– as well as being invaluable toresearchers tracing their family trees.
Bell is widely considered to haveinvented the phone in 1876. He andhis backers formed the Bell TelephoneCompany in the US and a yearlater demonstrated it to Queen Victoriaon the Isle of Wight. The first listof phone numbers appeared in 1880.
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