Bowes Park Telephone Exchange (1)
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Bowes Park Telephone Exchange (1)
Image: © David Hillas Taken: 8 Jun 2013
Located at 661 Lordship Lane N22 5LA, this TE would appear to date from the 1930s, a building that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner would have approved of. It has the code LNBPK and provides telephone and broadband services to 23,227 residential and 1,012 non-residential premises in Bowes Park and Wood Green. Until the late 1960s, it used to have BOWes Park and MULberry numbers. The ornate entrance would appear to be no longer used, the present entrance being to the left of it having originally had window panes like the other three front ones.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.598037
Longitude
-0.104997