Talking Telephone Numbers (not like that)

There’s a group of like minded types to which I belong, where we have a tendency to talk about our interests and some of the more unusual trivia that interests us. Amongst that group is the excellent Snathe (https://bsky.app/profile/snathe.bsky.social), who it’s fair to say has quite the expertise around the world of the telephone network history in the UK, as chronicled via his phonecode lookup tool at https://snathe.net/phonecodes. The Question This lunchtime, in a group conversation where thoughts turned to famous songs revolving around such phone numbers, City Boy’s 5.7.0.5: At the beginning is what sounds suspiciously like the tones used in a touchtone phone. So, it was asked, what would you reach at the time if you held your phone up to the speaker and let it dial? And so it began… The Process At this point, I’m going to summarise this as I saw it play out, as in the main it passed from pillar to post. Also in that group was The Blender…