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TELEPHONE SERVICE  |  GENERAL POST OFFICE TELEPHONES DEPARTMENT

PLYMSTOCK TELEPHONE EXCHANGE

Updated:  01 October 2011 

There were no telephones in Plymstock in January 1912, when the General Post Office took over the National Telephone Company.  By July of that year an exchange was listed as being at the Post Office, which was naturally Plymstock Number 1. 

The exchange in Church Road was transferred from manual to automatic operation at 2pm on Saturday July 6th 1935.  At that time Plymstock had about 250 subscribers, with equipment to extend to 400 and room for a maximum of 800.

In 1961 a new automatic exchange was opened in Stentaway Road.  Subscribers were allotted numbers within Plymouth's 40000 series and the Plymstock exchange name ceased to be used.

 

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