The complete first Brighton directory

The first Brighton telephone directory was a 16-page supplement to the 1885 London directory. At that time the telephone service had been available for only three years. The country’s first trunk line, linking Brighton and London, opened in 1884.

Interestingly, 81 years later, in 1966, the Post Office’s Brighton area telephone directory was the first to include a classified business section called ‘Yellow Pages’.

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  • That is brilliant to see this first Brighton telephone directory. So they really did start at no.1.

    By Maralyn Eden (10/07/2008)

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