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Waverley Telephone Exchange, Edinburgh (1)
Located at 12 East London Street, this TE dates from the early 1960s and has the code ESWAV. It provides telephone and broadband services to 14,540 residential and 1,380 non-residential premises in the East Central area of Edinburgh plus Broughton and Canonmills nearby. A green BT cabinet can be seen in front of this TE.
Image: © David Hillas
Taken: 29 Sep 2018
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Waverley Telephone Exchange, Edinburgh (2)
This TE in East London Street, EH7 4BH is a Modernist building and a significant example of 1960's public architecture in Edinburgh. It was given Category B Listed status in November 2007. Above the door to the left can be seen a tiled panel. The TE used to have WAVerley numbers until the late 1960s, but now has 0131-556, 557 and 558 numbers, the (0131) referring to the Edinburgh group of twenty five TEs.
Image: © David Hillas
Taken: 29 Sep 2018
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Dream Doors
East London Street.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 14 Dec 2019
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East London Street
New Town street, about the area where the development ran out of steam. The buildings are newer than the usual New Town properties. The modern building is a telephone exchange (Waverley, now 556, 557 and 558 numbers).
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 3 Feb 2006
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Edinburgh Architecture : East London Street Telephone Exchange
My "Pevsner" says telephone exchange, Ministry of Works (1962) but this sinister building looks more like a Government waterboarding facility.
Image: © Richard West
Taken: 11 Oct 2013
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Annandale Street Garage maintenance bays
Edinburgh has always taken pride in its well-maintained bus fleet and prompt acquisition of state-of-the-art vehicles. The new ecobus on the right was brought into service only a fortnight before this photo was taken.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 25 Sep 2011
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East London Street, Edinburgh
Image: © Chris Whippet
Taken: 27 Mar 2006
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Former London Street School, East London Street
London Street Primary School has become St. Mary's R.C. Primary School.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 25 Aug 2011
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Former Catholic Apostolic Church, Mansfield Place
The walls of the church are covered with murals by the Irish-born painter Phoebe Anna Traquair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Anna_Traquair of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The building is now known as the Mansfield-Traquair Centre, named after the trust established to save it in 1993.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 2 Feb 2012
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Phoebe Anna Traquair angels, former Catholic Apostolic Church
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 2 Feb 2012
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