Colinton Telephone Exchange
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Colinton Telephone Exchange by David Hillas as part of the Geograph project.
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Colinton Telephone Exchange
Image: © David Hillas Taken: 16 Jul 2015
Located at 296 Colinton Road in this suburb of Edinburgh, this TE has the code ESCTN and serves 6,225 residential and 84 non-residential premises in Colinton plus Juniper Green nearby. It used to have COLinton numbers until the late 1960s, but now has 0131-441 xxxx numbers. A BT warning notice and a green grit salt bin can be seen to the left of the TE, whilst two BT Openreach vans are parked in front of the building. The postcode for this TE, which would appear to date from the 1960s, is EH13 0LB.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.908621
Longitude
-3.252796