Kingsway telephone exchange
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kingsway-telephone-exchange-172-14741605
title:
Kingsway telephone exchange
text:
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, it was instead used as a government communications centre. In 1949 the General Post Office (GPO) took over the building, and in 1956 it became the UK termination point for TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable. Closure of the facility began in the 1980s. It was built together with underground exchanges in Birmi
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description:
Cold War telephone exchange under London
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsway_telephone_exchange
date created:
2004-02-24T18:38:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T03:12:46Z
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