These four new south wales telephone directories from the 1930s all include the city and surrounding suburb exchanges of sydney including. Adelaide south australia, brisbane queensland, canberra, darwin northern territory, gold coast, melbourne victoria, perth western australia, sydney new south wales. This online exhibition, sydneys home furnishing stores, 18901960, has been inspired by the trade literature from sydneys furniture and furnishing retailers. Labor government established a royal commission under judge kinsella in 1962. Find and contact people in our sydney, ns white pages on 411. In response to the mounting policial controversy, the n. A search function is also available on the acma website. Sydney telephone directory national library of australia. We have selected 25 vintage childrens books, including titles from patricia wrightson, nan chauncy, colin thiele, ivan southall and many other stalwarts of australian literature.
Known collectively as the eora people which means here or from this place, there are 29 clan groups in the sydney metropolitan area. I will keep it but happy to check an entry for you. Im a picture framer in sydney and the business has been going since 1946, when the phone number was ja 8790. Sydney telephone books 19801995 australia page 1 rootschat.
New south wales telephone directories electronic resource. About once a month i get a call asking about peoples old pictures, but unfortunately our records dont go. Nov 17, 2010 hi, i was wondering that are there any libraries in metropolitan sydney that have archived collections of old phone books both yellow pages and white pages. The phone company in most cities publishes a directory of everyone in that area. Jun 04, 2014 gday do you have any idea where i could find sydney phone book five dock area 1981 82 thanks for any help alona tester on 24 march 2016 at 12. Old telephone books possibly the worlds largest online collection of phone books. Sydney white pages telephone directory telephone directory phonebook. Wikipedia citation please see wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. Telephone directory and phone book listings for australia. From 1873 a street by street listing was compiled for the city, listing both. Aboriginal people have lived in the sydney area for at least 50,000 years.
Vaile said it was relatively simple to scan every page of the phone book and, using optical character recognition, pull out all of the key data. The book is generous in tone and the characters arent particularly typed by gender, girl sydney rules at the video game galaxy conquest, but there isnt anything preachy or heavyhanded going on. Situated on cape breton islands east coast, it belongs administratively to the cape breton regional municipality. The australian telephone numbering plan describes the allocation of phone numbers in australia.
Hi, i was wondering that are there any libraries in metropolitan sydney that have archived collections of old phone books both yellow pages and white pages. Sydney is australias oldest european settlement, and has a rich and fascinating history. Dec 23, 2010 probe into net phone directory for stalkers. Telephone directories contain addresses and phone numbers and can be quite. You can use the british columbia a to z name directory to find a resident of british columbia by last name. Note that this search example will bring up all entries for william, including. New south wales telephone directory 191953 findmypast. The firm of john sands ltd printers and stationers published their directory. Woolloomooloo, ashfield, castle hill, hornsby, avalon beach, manly, parramatta, liverpool, sutherland and many more. The sydney morning herald from sydney, new south wales.
About british phone books, 18801984 this collection contains british phone books published between 1880, the year after the public telephone service was introduced to the uk, and 1984, from the historic phone book collection held by bt archives. For those interested in the rest of the leaflet, here it is. By 1969 borals business had grown and diversified to such an extent that management felt that the staff needed to be better educated about the groups activities. British columbia residential phone book, white pages canda. Until the early 1960s, the first one or two digits of telephone numbers in metropolitan areas were alphabetic, with each letter representing a distinct number on the telephone. New south wales telephone directory sydney electronic resource. Third grade mixup is a quick, easy read that most kids would enjoy, but probably not fall in love with. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the british, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on 1 august 1995, when it was amalgamated into the. Telephone directories contain addresses and phone numbers and can be quite helpful in locating living relatives or possible relatives with the same surname or a similar surname. In its early days our old home had the number f103, i. The phone company in most cities publishes a directory of everyone in that area who has a listed phone number. About once a month i get a call asking about peoples old pictures, but unfortunately our records dont go back beyond 2005. It then went to 41 8790, 419 8790, and finally 9419 8790. Journey back to the books that helped shape your childhood.
Find a person in british columbia by name, address, postal code or by reverse phone number lookup. They include the city and surrounding suburb exchanges of sydney, such as. These books touch on almost every aspect of life down under, from the flora and fauna to the outback and farming. However with mobile phones and the internet noone had a need to. The records have been scanned from microfiche into a complete digital edition. Remember, you must be the registered service owner ie. Perhaps i was too anxious to reach my terminus, 1967. The international white pages is the easy way to find people, phone numbers, and information in new zealand. However mobile number portability means an individual number might have been ported. There are also many mvnos which use numbers from their wholesaler or might have their own ranges. If you have found any, please give me a full list including address.
I tend to measure these books against the angelina ballerina series, mainly because they are my eight year olds favorites. You can also find a business or professional service provider in british columbia. Sidney or sydney was originally an english surname. As with many english surnames, from the name of a place where an ancestor came from. Abandoning its longtime opposition to any radical change in the betting laws, the ajc had earlier advocated legalization of offtrack betting to tax the illegal sp business whose turnover it. A database nebraska phonebooks has been developed to give an accurate account of our holdings and to help. Whitepages provides the top free people search and tenant screening tool online with contact information for over 250 million people including cell phone numbers and complete background check data compiled from public records, white pages and other directories in all 50 states. As armed police surround a house in the east end of london, a young lady under medical supervision nearby thinks back to the events that lead her and a group of russian refugee political anarchists to this situation. With donald sinden, nicole berger, kieron moore, peter wyngarde. Sydneys home furnishing stores, 18901960 sydney living. Vintage australian childrens literature on abebooks. Search directories online 19001973 almanacs and directories. Gday do you have any idea where i could find sydney phone book five dock area 1981 82 thanks for any help alona tester on 24 march 2016 at 12.
And while im on the topic of old telephone books, if anyone has any vintage pre1960 australian. British columbia residential phone book, white pages canada. For historians with an interest in new south wales and its residents, telephone directories are a wonderful genealogy tool, as they provide the name and address of people at a particular date. Vintage australian telephone books gould genealogy. A telephone directory also called a telephone book and phone book is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Sydney is a former city and current community located in the cape breton regional municipality of cape breton island, nova scotia, canada. The nshs library is the only library in the state that collects old phonebooks from towns, cities, or regions in nebraska. Sands sydney, suburban and country commercial directory. I saw old phone books at hawthorn library in melbourne last month. To facilitate this an independent company was contracted to produce a staff magazine, the boral book. Winston churchill, 1960, in british phone books, 18801984, rudolf sieber. The change from using the alpha prefixs to numeric occurred here in wa in around 1960. Search the catalogue for collection items held by the national library of australia new search eresources user lists feedback help collection delivery times visitor update. Entering the search william in the search box will return each instance of that name being listed in the directory, giving its page number.
Jan 01, 2007 i myself possibly underestimated the distinctive features of 1960 67 in my 2002 book on radical students and the old left at sydney university. Nongeographic numbers mobile phone numbers 04, 05 each mobile phone company is allocated numbers in blocks, which are listed below. Archive digital books australasia this new south wales telephone directory includes the city of sydney and metropolitan exchanges including. Up to this time, the maximum size of an australian telephone number was six digits. Archive digital books australasia telephone directories are a wonderful source of information for historians, as they provide the name and address of people at a particular date. The following reexamination considers varying interpretations of the student movement at sydney from about 1960 to about 1967 advanced by. When searching for the name of a person or business, the most efficient method is to enter that name in the search box. We provide answers to over 2 million searches every day, helping 35.
I love the inclusion of full color illustrations throughout the book. I myself possibly underestimated the distinctive features of 196067 in my 2002 book on radical students and the old left at sydney university. It has changed many times, the most recent major reorganisation by the australian communications and media authority taking place between 1994 and 1998. Jan 28, 2012 everyone, does anyone know of a reputable site, or a hobbyist that collects telephone books, that is able to provide lookups of phone numbers and postal addresses, sydney telephone books 19801995 australia page 1 rootschat. This changed to f1103 in the mid 50s with more changes occurring in later yearsand before you comment, yes that was long before my time. The firm of john sands ltd printers and stationers published their directory each year from 185859 to. New south wales telephone directory 1940s electronic resource.
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