Summertown Telephone Exchange, Oxon (2)
Introduction
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Summertown Telephone Exchange, Oxon (2)
Image: © David Hillas Taken: 15 Aug 2017
Taken in Stratfield Road, this photo shows the side view of this TE which would appear to date from the 1930s. The ornate windows stand out on this red-brick building which the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner would have approved of. A BT Openreach vehicle can be seen parked to the right of the photo. The numbering ranges of this TE are (01865) 31xxxx, 55xxxx, the (01865) referring to the twenty TEs in the Oxford group, and its postcode is OX2 7BE.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.776391
Longitude
-1.266552