telephone exchange

Background History Built by the Glasgow Office of Public Works in 1935 on the corner of Centre Street and Cook Street, this telephone exchange is typical of its time, functional yet featuring some stylish architectural features. It is built predominantly from red brick but also includes some...

History: The Kingsway Telephone Exchange, originally built as a deep-level air-raid shelter in 1942 but never saw use as such, was handed over to the Post Office in 1949 and became a crucial Cold War communications hub even seeing use from the MI6. It also housed the UK termination point for the...

This site has not been posted for a long time. But today I had a conversation with the people renovating it on the street funnily enough. They are going ahead with it and I took a scout out seems hard but if anyone is interested they do investors tours. Not sure why I’m saying this cya

History RAF Sculthorpe was built between the villages of Sculthorpe (to its east) and Syderstone (to its west-north-west) as the second satellite airfield of RAF West Raynham (itself a few miles to the south), the first satellite airfield being RAF Great Massingham. Work began on Sculthorpe in...

Walked around a place that I've never seen a part of my local area and found a giant office complex with structures rotting with some windows having metal gratings under it and the front door looked decayed, with a warning of cameras and alarms. Could be potential but don't see any information...

Having been stuck in a bit of a rut doing derp houses, I felt the urge to get underground again. It's safe to say this scratched the itch. History So Kingsway has been covered many times over the years. Access comes and goes, but it seems not much has changed inside. "The Kingsway telephone...

Kingsway telephone exchange was a Cold War-era hardened telephone exchange underneath High Holborn in London. Initially built as a deep-level air-raid shelter in the early 1940s for over 8000 people, this is one of 8 shelters not too far front eachpther. it was instead used as a government...

Well, here goes my first report on this website! I hope you enjoy! Speed did a report on this place back in 2011 so I decided the forum needed a little update since it's... lets just say "considerably" more rundown now than it looked back then. Despite it being fairly barren it is undoubtedly a...

Visited with @Minor @starlight @UrbanDuck @Boomstick84 @GreyAliyah and 2 non members History (yoinked from wiki) The Kingsway telephone exchange was built as a deep-level shelter underneath Chancery Lane tube station in the early 1940s, compromising two east-west aligned tunnels, one each side...

This place propped up on my radar a few weeks ago now, so with plans made I made the 30 minute drive down the M56 to have a look around. It seems like it has been closed for a while, the office block a lot more recently, around 1998 and the other buildings at the back around the late 80's from...

I missed the boat with this place a few years back so I was thrilled to finally see inside. Much bigger than I had anticipated and much more epic than I could ever imagine. So much going on in here it's unbelievable, without question one of the most fascinating places I've ever seen. It's a bit...

I don't know if it's called that, I just can't find enough information on the building! Here is a little blog I found on it. http://www.abandoned-derelict.co.uk/disused-telephone-exchange-centre/ so if anyone knows where it is, or could give me information on find it it, that would be very...

Thought it was about time these photos saw the light of day, it was 2 years ago now, FFS where does the time go. A Brief history of the Kingsway exchange. Kingsway started out life as the Chancery Lane deep shelter. This was constructed as part of the war effort to provide shelter to...

There are many sites around the world that you hear of, and never imagine you'll ever see. I imagine it's a similar feeling to those who pine after meeting their favourite pop star, or celebrity. A sense of frustration when you know others have managed to, yet you're so far from accomplishing...

After hearing this site had been hit quite a bit at the Wiltshire meet a plan was set in motion for the following weekend involving Maniac and Raptor Jesus. We headed down to Holborn once it seemed late enough, although we then waited an age for Elliott whilst he got a McDonalds :rolleyes...