Pudsey telephone exchange

billy the buffalo · Post by **billy the buffalo** » Thu 02 Jul, 2009 2:19 pm

drighlington exchange has got a key stone with the date 1968 ( i think) i will look next time i am there ...but there was another exchange which was on spring gardens which is just off King Street ..There are also some other old exchange buildings that are still about but with different uses.. Roundhay..Chapletown...are both still there and are now offices ...... thorner exchange is still there in the grounds of the newer one ......... Oakwood exchange was demolished and they incorporated it into 3 other exchanges .....

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 02 Jul, 2009 9:49 pm

billy the buffalo wrote: drighlington exchange has got a key stone with the date 1968 ( i think) i will look next time i am there ...but there was another exchange which was on spring gardens which is just off King Street ..There are also some other old exchange buildings that are still about but with different uses.. Roundhay..Chapletown...are both still there and are now offices ...... thorner exchange is still there in the grounds of the newer one ......... Oakwood exchange was demolished and they incorporated it into 3 other exchanges ..... I know this makes me seem like a bit of a nerd, but I can't help it I have a good memory for useless information, in the days when Drigh had its own exchange, I worked at a Morley company called B.D.C. (Morley) Ltd among other things they were electricians and had a shop in Drigh. The number which I remember to this day was Drighlington 453, the code for Drigh once we got STD was 9830. The code for Leeds was 9. The code for the Ossett exchange was 9960. Most codes began with "9" presumably because you had to access the Leeds exchange first. Although I think originally Morley's STD code was 09736 whereas Leeds was 0532.