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- "The earliest mention I can find of other telephone subscribers in Reeth was in the 1921 directory, which lists only Barclays Bank (Reeth 2) and the police station (Reeth 3). By then there would have been a small telephone ex-change (a switchboard) almost certainly in the post office. Margaret Ward, sub-postmistress, was listed in the directory as Reeth 1. The 1922 directory lists Reeth exchange as offering a telephone service only between 8am and 8pm Monday to Saturday and between 8.30am and 10 am on Sundays. And then only when Margaret wasn't busy serving in the shop, presumably!" Quoting John Cranston from an article in the Friends of Swaledale Newsletter #14 Autumn 2012.
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