Hmm, could we, please, have the full postal addresses and postcodes for the two sites about which you are enquiring, and perhaps the old 01X numbers or any others that you may know about.
Every little helps.

192.com seems to have nothing on either of these two sites. However, thephonebook.com returns the following number for WH Smith News in Croydon - 020 8680 9249. It doesn't return anything for the Crawley address unfortunately.

Can you try the Croydon number and see if that gets you through OK?

jgxenite

Thanks for your reply - will try both numbers tomorrow, yet they might not pick up...being it a Bank

Holiday

Will try on Tuesday and will post back to let you know.

Thanks again - keep up the good work

Regards

happy37

Hi jgxenite

I am reporting back to let you know of my results with both telephone numbers:-

For the Croydon number, 020 8680 9249 - this number does not belong to Whsmiths.

For the Crawley number, 01293 562502 - this number comes up as unrecognised when I try to dial it.

Thanks again for looking - please advise of any other alternative numbers that I can try.

Regards

happy37

lompos

Thanks for your reply - might have to consider that option in due course, yet is there anyone else out there who has managed to find any other numbers for these 2 sites?

Please let me know.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

happy37

A lookup of telco allocations reveals:

0845 121 and 0845 123 are allocated to Affiniti Integrated Solutions, a part of Kingston Communications. The change date is 11/1995 for both. 0800 915 is also Affiniti, date 10/1997

Within the London code (020) there are quite few Affiniti prefixes:

020 1173 02/2005
020 1174 03/2002
020 1222 02/2005
020 1227 05/2007
020 1228 05/2007
020 3130 06/2005
020 3131 06/2005
020 7160 07/2003
020 7788 05/1999
020 8181 06/2001
020 8185 02/2005
020 8712 02/2005

As you can see, there's loads. The first five are "national dialling only", meaning that you have to dial 020 code even when calling from a landline with an 020 number. It is also not possible to call some/many of these numbers from BT landlines. They are usually used where the number isn't publicised such as routing 08xx/09xx numbers to. That in no way means that the alternative to the 0845s we are seeking are contained within these prefixes. Indeed, I found the number for Pets at Home helpline to be 020 81819000. This is the same as the 0800 for them.

In short, consider the length of time that these numbers have been in service and the fact the old ones have now been reused. In which case, I think 020 8181 is worth a try. Remember, it's all ifs and buts though.

A check of Crawley (01293) reveals only one Affiniti prefix: 01293 83, change date 03/2004

I believe that it's a needle in a haystack you're looking for. 

jgxenite wrote on Aug 30^th, 2007 at 4:29pm:
But do, please, prefix your call with 141 to withhold your number.