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... will take note of an alteration of telephone numbers which has just occurred, which is the replacing of Victoria 7000 by Whitehall 1212. This is the new number of Scotland Yard, which is rung up so frequently on the stage. I wondered at first why the Post ...

Published: Thursday 14 April 1932
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2532 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EVENING DESPATCH TUESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 1933 AN ARMY OUSTS ITS OFFICERS 37 FARMERS FOR TRIAL NEW TURN IN CUBAN AFFAIRS

... have found j 2010000 compared with the previous the please communicate ) year this 14167000 was American Scotland Yard Whitehall 1212” cotton 4788000 East Indian 936000 ?' Egyptian and 5029000 sundry NEW ULSTER CAR RACE It is now almost certain that RAC ...

Published: Tuesday 05 September 1933
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3368 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

A CALL TO TN. VAN.,

... hierittreelact.!he misuser. He wa• quashing from Londam Why dad her Ono. again he turned to the telephone. One me Whitehall 1212. miss. ha demanded. And Doke it snappy—it's important. That's what deemenes en the films always did *ay. and at that ...

4 EVENING DESPATCH WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER 1934 REMARKABLE NEW GAS FIRE Less gas usedr-more warmth given THE new ..

... contains generally piteous appeals 5 Cornwall The old rhyme runs: By the Tre the Pol and Pen Ye shall know the Cornlshmen” 6 Whitehall 1212 7 Because LUNDY means Island ol Puffins 8 The Roman Wall runs from Carlisle to Newcastle 9 Knock Out 10 Viscount EAST ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1934
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4624 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TWO PNOTOORAONS

... study. In both he is shown wearing glasses. Information should be given to the nearest police-stallon. New Scotland Yard (Whitehall 1212.. and the Albany -street police slalioli, N.W.I ( , Museuiii it is added. ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1935
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 60 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CHAPTER VII.—THE CHASE BEGINS

... throng in the conference room as the Ambassador slowly walked to the telephone that rested the corner of the room. Give me Whitehall 1212 ! he commanded. A moment later. Is that Scotland Yard? This is the Ambassador of the Koravian Embassy in Park Lane speaking ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1935
Newspaper: Tamworth Herald
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1860 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

London Gossip & News

... having a thoroughly good time. more perfect reception salten the eervice does start. Telephoning the King Everybody knows Whitehall 1212—the telephone number of Scotland Yard. An official at Buckingham Palace was telling me on Saturday that it seems as though ...

Published: Monday 06 April 1936
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1470 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DESPATCH MONDAY AUGUST &— afitA MAJOR FOUND SHOT DEAD IN HOLIDAY CAMP YEARS IN PRISON GUN BY HIS SIDE IN

... tablet taken by a or young person prove fatal Anyone finding this packet should communi- att immediately Scotland telephone Whitehall 1212” DAME A LIVINGSTONE ILL Dame Adelaide Livingstone who has been director of special activities of League of Nations Union ...

Published: Monday 03 August 1936
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3907 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EVENING DESPATCH WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 1937 WHISTLE CONQUERS SMOKE NUISANCE smoke nuisance which costs Britain ..

... than an hour calls to offices on Whitehall exchange were connected only after some delay or could not be connected at all Whitehall 1212— Scotland Yard— a number known to every radio listener was obtained only after three attempts but calls to several numbers ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1937
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3956 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUNDAY MERCURY - July 1937 BOOKS QUEER THINGS HUNTERS By George Dilnot (Hale 12s 6d) or ° deluge crime books

... jacket with dead financier a suspected philanthropist avenging nephew interest skeleton band red-pencilling Whitehall all O Whitehall 1212 and all very too Death of a Golfer by Anthony Wynne (Hutchinson 7s Gd)— What a refreshing title— to the average nongolfer ...

Published: Sunday 04 July 1937
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3136 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

EVENING DESPATCH SATURDAY 21 AUGUST 1937 7 Mr Keeley BIRMINGHAM HUSBAND MISSING FOR A MONTH MONTH Mr Leonard ..

... drivers or any other persons are requested should see man to inform nearest police station or telephone Scotland Yard Whitehall 1212” At Marylebone Police Court on Wednesday William Hogan aged 20 was remanded until August charged the murder John O’Neil ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1937
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3453 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

11 m- ULSTER TT JUST MISSES WORLD SPEED TITLE German Mechanics Cheer inner After 246 Miles in the Rain SUNDAY

... other persons are requested should they see this man to inform the nearest police station or telephone New Scotland Yard Whitehall 1212 FIRE DRAMA Birmingham Mother Saves Her Rushing Into bedroom enrly yesterday In response to cries for help the mother of ...

Published: Sunday 22 August 1937
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2798 | Page: 11 | Tags: none