House or telephone exchange?
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House or telephone exchange?
Image: © Jim Osley Taken: 24 Nov 2011
In the 1930s the Post Office was responsible for the telephone service. Most of its buildings in the inter-war years were in the neo-Georgian tradition, a few from an older domestic tradition. At first view this building resembles a piece of domestic architecture rather than a telephone exchange. It dates from 1939, and I am wondering whether this is the work of architect Frederick Allen Llewellyn who designed similar buildings in Dagenham Image], and West Drayton Image
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