Kingsway telephone exchange (Q6413739)

matcher place: London Congestion Charge (way 227880171), City of London (relation 51800), Greater London (relation 175342)
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English Wikipedia categories: British Telecom buildings and structures, Fortifications of London, History of the London Borough of Camden, Infrastructure in London, Nuclear bunkers in the United Kingdom, Subterranean London, Telephone exchange buildings

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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

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.

Wikidata location: 51.5180, -0.1105 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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telephone exchange (Q256132)	telecom=exchange
subterranea (Q863404)	location=underground