Ringing The Changes

HULL has never been part of the national telephone grid.

Originally local councils across the country installed and maintained communication cables.

These were mostly taken over by the General Post Office, which later became the Post Office, with telephone responsibilities transferred to British Telecommunications - better known as BT - in 1980.

But Hull remained independent, and made sure people knew about it by painting phone boxes off-white.

Two Hull phone boxes outside an impressive-looking Wetherspoon