Top ten telephone numbers - latest! (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

Top ten telephone numbers - latest!

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WE are very grateful to the number of readers who have helped in identifying the first ten numbers of the telephones in Cirencester.

As suspected, No 1 was the post office itself, the kiosk which used to be inside the main entrance from Castle Street.

We also now have No 10 which was a second line for the Standard, obviously a centre for communication even then.

We have also received information from Mary Jones of Charlton, whose father and grandfather were carriers to Cirencester from Hankerton.

She has a Sam Clappen, county outfitters, calendar for 1910 with the telephone number Cirencester 5x.

All these numbers are from the days of the manual exchange above the post office itself.

Grace Scarlet and her uncle worked at the Cirencester exchange and she remembers a Polish gentleman going into the kiosk that used to be in the West Market Place.

He could not understand the system of pressing button 'A', so after trying unsuccessfully to explain, her uncle left the exchange, walked up Black Jack Street and pressed it for him.

This would be difficult today... it's a long walk from a call centre in Bangladesh to Cirencester Market Place.

All we need now is No 6.