Question arising from tidying up

[ewx]

What on earth is the point of the Thomson Local directory? I don't think I've used it once in my life (even before discovering the Internet) but it's been coming through the door for as long as I can remember (which in this case means at least back to the 1980s).

Have you ever used it?

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

It was great when moving every couple of years, a handy section in the front telling you about councils and libraries and local maps and emergency chemists and stuff. Haven't used it since I got broadband internet.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Yeh, that bit in the front.
I have used it in the past, before every small business had details online, as we get a phone directory that's useless since we live in WYorks but have a Rochdale area code and an Oldham postcode.