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01632 Area Code

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Postby monabri » January 13th, 2022, 3:39 pm

Whilst (trying) to watch "Stay Close" on the BBC iPlayer, I noticed a FOR SALE notice on a house. The area code was 01632.

It seems that this area code is deliberately set aside for fictional use in films, TV programmes and books.

http://www.area-codes.org.uk/01632.php

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Re: 01632 Area Code

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Postby monabri » January 13th, 2022, 4:11 pm

p.s. I think I was more interested in the house as "Stay Close" seems to be stretching credulity. Girl tries to leave her shady past life behind by moving to a new part of the country...a few miles away where no one will know her! I've read through the plot line on Wiki and I'm even more puzzled as to the motives of her best friend from the old days ("Lorraine").

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Re: 01632 Area Code

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Postby Maylix » January 14th, 2022, 1:31 am

monabri wrote:Whilst (trying) to watch "Stay Close" on the BBC iPlayer, I noticed a FOR SALE notice on a house. The area code was 01632.

It seems that this area code is deliberately set aside for fictional use in films, TV programmes and books.

http://www.area-codes.org.uk/01632.php


Yes, I looked it up, but only because I wanted to know where the series was set, so that didn't work ;) At least it's better than the Americans, who use 555 in the number!

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Re: 01632 Area Code

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Postby ten0rman » January 20th, 2022, 9:21 am

As a matter of interest, 01632 was the original code for Newcastle-upon-Tyne before Newcastle was changed to the present 0191 code.

Actually when STD was originally setup, all exchange codes were alpha-numeric with 0 being the standard prefix for STD calls. Newcastle was originally 0NE2 (0 the STD access code, NE being the first two letters of Newcastle, and 2 just being a number). When the country went all-figures, 0NE2 became 0632, 63 being the numeric equivalent to NE. The digit 1 was later added after the initial 0 to allow for number expansion, hence 01632, and then finally, Newcastle was changed to 0191.

Of course, this was all a long time ago, perhaps as many as 30 to 60 years, or more!

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