Really needing help from someone familiar with London......

The old-style London (and other UK telephone numbers) such as Mayfair 3290 or Whitehall 1212 ended in the mid-1960s, as before automated telephone exchanges came along in the mid-1960s all telephone calls had to be connected via an operator in the UK. So if the telephone number was originally Whitehall 1212, from about 1966 the number would be changed to 01 230 1212 as it was dialled through an exchange instead of an operator. The dialling code 01 was originally the code for Greater London and it was replaced by 071 and 081 in 1990 - the number 071 being the dialling code for inner London and 081 being the dialling code for outer London. In 1995 due to growing demand, the London dialling codes were changed slightly to 0171 and 0181 although the telephone numbers would remain the same. In 2001 the dialling codes were changed again, this time to 0207 for inner London and 0208 for outer London. So what would have been Whitehall 1212 in 1957 would be 0207 230 1212 in 2007. Hope this can be of help. Mayfair would be in the 0207 area nowadays. Best wishes, Mike

The Centre for Research into Freemasonry, www.freemasonry.dept.shef.ac.uk at the University of Sheffield in England might be interested in the piece about the Lodge. They published a paper about it in 2004, according to their website.