Fire Brigades 1890

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  Whitstable Times 14/10/1893, p5, bottom of col.4.

[AlanBoyd]

Thanks!

[hanes teulu]

I was wondering what neck of the woods.
A great post - note "terms/conditions" set by the companies re. their subscribers

Sheffield Telegraph, 28 Aug 1890

[AlanBoyd]

Kelly's Directory 1899 states for Chillenden that the nearest telegraph office [is] at Nonington, 3 miles distant.

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  That is an over-estimate, 1.5 miles I think! Could you check whether Goodnestone had a telegraph office? Both places had Post Offices. You may have gathered that this is very familiar territory!

[AlanBoyd]

Goodnestone also refers to Nonnington, but 2 miles distant.

Looking at newspapers I see someone in Chillenden in 1955 giving their number as Nonington 250.

[AlanBoyd]

The Post Office Telephone Directory of 1899 has an index of ~75 exchanges. I can only see Gravesend for Kent.

There seem to be a lot of exchanges in the NE of England for some reason – I’ve just counted 19!

Aberdeen is there, but no sign of e.g. Bristol or Exeter either.

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  A local small business was Nonington 228, originally just 28, number acquired sometime in the 1920s I think. I wonder who 250 was?

[AlanBoyd]

Wonder no more!

28 January 1955: Kentish Express

WANTED Hens and Cockerels; collect and Pay Cash.—Reeve, 1, The Row, Chillenden. Tel. Nonington 250