Door to the exchange
Introduction
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Door to the exchange
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 17 Sep 2014
Sidmouth has a fairly long history of communications. Originally planned to be part of the Admiralty's semaphore system from London to Plymouth in the 1820s, more modern telecommunications arrived in the town in the late 1890s. There was a mere handful of lines at first but desired contact with the greater world brought the first exchange in 1896, allowing sixteen lines to be made - manually. When the Radway estate was built in 1930, the current exchange was set up and by the late 1960s had the first of its automated systems installed. See Image] for a wider view.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.682992
Longitude
-3.239055