what does the average telephone exchange building look like ?

Afternnon punters. I've recently delevoped an unhealthy interest in
broadband technology and the village where I live is soon to have it's
exchange upgraded. I was wondering what the exchange builiding/housing would
look like as the village is very small and (of all the buildings i'm aware
of) none would seem (to me at least) to be the said exchange.

TIA

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:54:49 GMT, "banzai" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Afternnon punters. I've recently delevoped an unhealthy interest in
>broadband technology and the village where I live is soon to have it's
>exchange upgraded. I was wondering what the exchange builiding/housing would
>look like as the village is very small and (of all the buildings i'm aware
>of) none would seem (to me at least) to be the said exchange.
>
Bricks, a door, and possibly a window or two?
Probably a big sign outside saying something like BT Exchange.
...

SJW
A.C.S. Ltd.

banzai wrote:
> Afternnon punters. I've recently delevoped an unhealthy interest in
> broadband technology and the village where I live is soon to have
> it's exchange upgraded. I was wondering what the exchange
> builiding/housing would look like as the village is very small and
> (of all the buildings i'm aware of) none would seem (to me at
> least) to be the said exchange.
>
> TIA

May not even be in your village, but in one of the neighbouring ones. But
they range from little 'chicken shed' affairs to rather larger brick built
buildings. Keep your eyes open & just look & see where the BT vans are
parking on a regular basis...

"Kráftéé" <kraftee@spam_off_&_die_ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:TdqYb.223$(E-Mail Removed)...
> banzai wrote:
> > Afternnon punters. I've recently delevoped an unhealthy interest
in
> > broadband technology and the village where I live is soon to have
> > it's exchange upgraded. I was wondering what the exchange
> > builiding/housing would look like as the village is very small and
> > (of all the buildings i'm aware of) none would seem (to me at
> > least) to be the said exchange.
> >
> > TIA
>
> May not even be in your village, but in one of the neighbouring
ones. But
> they range from little 'chicken shed' affairs to rather larger brick
built
> buildings. Keep your eyes open & just look & see where the BT vans
are
> parking on a regular basis...
>

That's it, I have found it now, it's called the Red Lion

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:54:49 GMT, "banzai" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Afternnon punters. I've recently delevoped an unhealthy interest in
> >broadband technology and the village where I live is soon to have it's
> >exchange upgraded. I was wondering what the exchange builiding/housing would
> >look like as the village is very small and (of all the buildings i'm aware
> >of) none would seem (to me at least) to be the said exchange.
> >
> Bricks, a door, and possibly a window or two?
> Probably a big sign outside saying something like BT Exchange.

There used to be a website which listed the exact locations of all the UK's
telephone exchanges, which could pinpoint them to about a hundred yards or
so.

Whatever happened to that?

Pete.

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In message <ZWpYb.478$(E-Mail Removed)>, banzai <(E-Mail Removed)>
writes
>Afternnon punters. I've recently delevoped an unhealthy interest in
>broadband technology and the village where I live is soon to have it's
>exchange upgraded. I was wondering what the exchange builiding/housing would
>look like as the village is very small and (of all the buildings i'm aware
>of) none would seem (to me at least) to be the said exchange.

The exchange in this village looked like a small, brick-built domestic
garage, big enough for one car. Pitched roof. Window high-up.

Mike
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:55:43 -0000, Pete Smith
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
>says...
>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:54:49 GMT, "banzai" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >Afternnon punters. I've recently delevoped an unhealthy interest in
>> >broadband technology and the village where I live is soon to have it's
>> >exchange upgraded. I was wondering what the exchange builiding/housing would
>> >look like as the village is very small and (of all the buildings i'm aware
>> >of) none would seem (to me at least) to be the said exchange.
>> >
>> Bricks, a door, and possibly a window or two?
>> Probably a big sign outside saying something like BT Exchange.
>
>There used to be a website which listed the exact locations of all the UK's
>telephone exchanges, which could pinpoint them to about a hundred yards or
>so.
>
>Whatever happened to that?
>
From the uk.telecom archives
"It's a shame then that BT exchanges all (well, lots) have postal
addresses and postcodes listed in the Postal Address Book (under
Organisations, British Telecom).

Most are listed as "Telephone Exchange", some just as "Exchange" and
some as "Automatic Telephone Exchange". Some places are just listed as

addresses."

I also found a couple of references to url's for bt exchange
locations, they all seem to have expired.
...

SJW
A.C.S. Ltd.

Pete Smith wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
> says...
>
>>On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:54:49 GMT, "banzai" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Afternnon punters. I've recently delevoped an unhealthy interest in
>>>broadband technology and the village where I live is soon to have it's
>>>exchange upgraded. I was wondering what the exchange builiding/housing would
>>>look like as the village is very small and (of all the buildings i'm aware
>>>of) none would seem (to me at least) to be the said exchange.
>>>
>>
>>Bricks, a door, and possibly a window or two?
>>Probably a big sign outside saying something like BT Exchange.
>
>
> There used to be a website which listed the exact locations of all the UK's
> telephone exchanges, which could pinpoint them to about a hundred yards or
> so.
>
> Whatever happened to that?
>
> Pete.
>

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../5/bt-loc.html

well, I don't know about "pinpointing" - it certainly gives the full
addresses...

> > There used to be a website which listed the exact locations of all the
UK's
> > telephone exchanges, which could pinpoint them to about a hundred yards
or
> > so.
> >
> > Whatever happened to that?
> >
> > Pete.
> >
>
> http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../5/bt-loc.html
>
> well, I don't know about "pinpointing" - it certainly gives the full
> addresses...


Don't know about England but it only lists 7 for the whole of Scotland. No
wonder we have a problem getting broadband ;o)

Steven.

Steven Campbell wrote:

"Don't know about England but it only lists 7 for the whole of Scotland."

Comedy answers dept....

1) there used to be 66 but they nicked them
2) most of them are in rehab
3) Have they added one?
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