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New Fri 22 Jun 18 11:54 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - Robin O'Reliant
According to a distributor I was talking to this morning, Yellow Pages is no more after this year. Once a much thumbed tome in every household I'm surprised it has lasted so long, It has shrunk to little more than magazine size now.

The only time mine is touched these days is when I pick it up to bin it when the new one arrives. Will anyone miss it?
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New Fri 22 Jun 18 12:02 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - sooty123
I'd forgotten all about them, I thought it stopped years ago. Can't remember the last time we had one delivered.

I remember my parents using them a great deal when I was growing up.
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New Fri 22 Jun 18 12:40 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - Manatee
>> The only time mine is touched these days is when I pick it up to
>> bin it when the new one arrives. Will anyone miss it?

I've been binning them when they arrived for some time, if I didn't manage to catch the distributors to stop them leaving it. Totally redundant, along with phone books generally.
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New Fri 22 Jun 18 15:42 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - No FM2R
The problem with the [various] electronic equivalents comes when one wants a *local* supplier.

You end up trawling through endless 'services' who have put every town name on their website but they are simply some kind of nationwide agency. It is simply too cheap to have a webpage found by every single search engine. If there was a cost then I'm sure they'd find a way to target the areas they actually can serve well.

I mourn the loss of the yellow pages book. It was the way to find local suppliers.
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New Fri 22 Jun 18 15:55 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - CGNorwich
Thomson Local are still going

www.thomsonlocal.com


On line and paper copy stuffed through the door every quarter I think



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New Fri 22 Jun 18 16:02 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - No FM2R
When I just asked for a plumber for my town it gave 6 answers. 5 were national services. All the entries after 6 were from sort-of close towns.

Still, even one local supplier complete with his address is worth finding, so thanks for that.
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New Fri 22 Jun 18 16:15 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - CGNorwich

You seem to be singularly plumber deficient

If I put in the same for Norwich I get 227 answers, most of which are local firms as far as I can tell .
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New Fri 22 Jun 18 16:31 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - No FM2R
The clue when I looked was that the ones that said "Servicing [your town]" are the national agencies. Only the ones that gave a specific address were local to that town.

Or maybe Norwich is particularly plumber replete.
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New Fri 22 Jun 18 17:02 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - CGNorwich
There's only three in that category - they appear at the top of the list. We dont like furreners in these parts.

The rest all have local addresses although the search for Norwich does throw up all of Norfolk.


I guess Norfolk is a good place to have burst pipe.

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New Fri 22 Jun 18 17:22 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - Duncan
>> There's only three in that category - they appear at the top of the list.
>> We dont like furreners in these parts.

Huh!

You don't like anybody that's only got five digits on each hand.
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New Fri 22 Jun 18 21:07 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - rtj70
If you need a plumber then simply call 118 118. Yes the call is likely to cost at least £11.23 but compared to the cost of plumber that's irrelevant.

Seriously, there are now websites to lookup trades people surely - we have a friendly multi-skilled pair we usually use for most things apart from actual gas/boiler related because they are not Corgi registered. But turn their hand well to almost anything.
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New Sat 23 Jun 18 07:25 
 Good Old Yellow Pages - Goodbye - Bromptonaut
There are a couple of useful local trader type booklets that drop through letterbox every few months. The Civil Paris magazine Link also carries ads. Folks on village Facebook page are good for recommendations too.
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