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British telecoms history -- e.g. how area codes relate to placenames, and the early history of automatic exchanges.
to history phone retrotech telecom telephone uk ... on 01 December 2013
Wiki for A&A customers using Asterisk, but there's a lot of useful information about the UK phone system and numbering plan buried in here.
eFestivals.co.uk - festivals news, info, tickets, reviews and photos
Searching by area is useful.
Used to be less fancy. Now is considerably more fancy, with lots of detail on the "advanced" tab for individual trains.
Details of UK airports -- all available online for free.
Spectrum use | Ofcom Spectrum Information System
The remarkably-well-hidden Ofcom database search form; this lets you figure out who's licensed to use a frequency, or what frequencies are in use in a given area.
Handy reference to repeaters in the UK.
A guide to how British pubs work. Now a bit out of date (the "last orders" ritual described happens about 1:30 AM these days), but still a good read.
to amusements pub sociology uk ... on 13 August 2006
A splendidly detailed site about the British road system.
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