Post Office Telephones - York area local telephone directory 1939 : ROT - RUT

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Post Office Telephones - York area local telephone directory 1939 : ROT - RUT
Post Office Telephones - York area local telephone directory 1939 : ROT - RUT

The Rowntree family was closely associated with York and especially with Rowntree's the chocolate company that had been founded in 1862 by Henry Rowntree. However the real foundations of this Quaker company were laid during the management of the concern by his brother Joseph and Rowntree's grew to be one of the world's largest confectionery companies. In 1969 they would merge with the fellow Yorkshire based Mackintosh of Halifax and subsequently they fell into the maw of Nestlé. But at this date, 1939, they were at the Cocoa Works here in York. Another Rowntree entry is of equal interest - the offices of the Rowntree Village Trust at New Earswick. This model "garden city" community is physical evidence of both the Rowntree's charitable trusts set up in 1904 and the later work of Seebohm Rowntree, Joseph's son, who was a noted social reformer. So much history in two lines of a telephone directory!

Other entries worth mentioning; The Royal Air Force base at Linton on Ouse would have been a tense place in 1939, the Phoney War. And, although fewer private motorists would be on the roads due to petrol rationing, the phones and sentry boxes of the RAC are listed at Askham Bryan, Grimston Bar, Hazelbush Cross and Tollerton. These provided Royal Automobile Club members with places to seek assistance in the days before mobile phones!

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