British phone books have been published since 1880, the year after the public telephone service was introduced to the UK.
The books contain alphabetical lists of those with a telephone and will provide the surname, address and telephone number.
The phone book can help us pin point addresses for individuals who move around particularly in between the 10 years of the census. The censuses were conducted once every ten years, but phone books were published around every one to two years.
The British Telecom's archives contain many hundreds of telephone directories and these are now available - Search Ancestry UK Telephone Books They consist of 1780 phone books covering most of England and parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
The books contain alphabetical lists of those with a telephone and will provide the surname, address and telephone number.
The phone book can help us pin point addresses for individuals who move around particularly in between the 10 years of the census. The censuses were conducted once every ten years, but phone books were published around every one to two years.
The British Telecom's archives contain many hundreds of telephone directories and these are now available - Search Ancestry UK Telephone Books They consist of 1780 phone books covering most of England and parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.