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Lillie Road, LONDON, SW6 1TL

Situated in Telephone Place SW6 1TJ, this TE dates from 1950 as indicated on the cipher above the entrance to the right of the photo. It has the code WRFULM and provides telephone and broadband services to the Fulham area plus Earl's Court and West Kensington nearby. Ventilation louvres can be seen on some of the windows, presumably to keep the TE air-cooled.

Taken from North End Road, this photo shows the back of the TE with a jib on the roof above the two entrance doors where the equipment is delivered from outside. This TE used to have FULham telephone numbers until the late 1960s, but now has numbers beginning with 0207, the 0207 referring to the Inner London group of TEs. More recently, lines connected to the former TEs at Earl's Court (TQ2678) and West Kensington (TQ2479) have been transferred to the Fulham TE.

Lillie Road looking towards North End Road.

Looking across the junction with North End Road SW6

Once one of the longest routes in London stretching from Golders Green to Kingston Vale the route was split in the late 1980's to improve reliability. After a number of subsequent changes the route currently runs between Kensal Rise and Wandsworth. The route has a special timetable on days when Chelsea FC are playing at home. Here is one of Tower Transit's Volvo B7TL vehicles on North End Road - a bottleneck of congestion along the route.

Names over the entrances identify 'Block A' and 'Block B' - rather heartlessly, it seems to me - as if this were a penal colony. Looking at the style of the block, my guess was that these are (or were) Peabody buildings - and other contributions confirm that this is the case. They must date from about 1900. On a Friday evening in August the street was rather busier than the image suggests - I waited for a gap in pedestrian traffic.