Guardian telephone exchange

Guardian Exchange was an underground telephone exchange built in from 1954 to 1957. It was built together with the Anchor exchange in and the Kingsway exchange in – all believed to provide hardened communications in the event…
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  • Type: Commerce
  • Description: Underground, hardened telephone exchange in Manchester
  • Also known as: “Guardian Exchange”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Central Library.

Art gallery
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, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on in , England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry. is situated 340 feet north of Guardian telephone exchange.

Library
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is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in , England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. is situated 670 feet west of Guardian telephone exchange.

Railway station
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Manchester Oxford Road is a railway station in , England, at the junction of Whitworth Street West and Oxford Street. It opened in 1849 and was rebuilt in 1960. is situated 1,500 feet south of Guardian telephone exchange.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chinatown and Manchester city centre.

Neighborhood
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in , England, is the second largest in the and the third largest in Europe. Its archway was completed in 1987 on Faulkner Street in , which contains Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thai and Vietnamese restaurants, shops, bakeries and supermarkets.

Suburb
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is the central business district of , England, within the confines of Great Ancoats Street, A6042 Trinity Way, and A57 Mancunian Way, which collectively form the inner ring road.

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the area in that covers Chinatown, the Gay Village, and Piccadilly Gardens. It is bounded by the A57, Oxford Road, and the A62.

Guardian telephone exchange

Latitude
53.47774° or 53° 28′ 40″ north
Longitude
-2.24165° or 2° 14′ 30″ west
Open location code
9C5VFQH5+38
Open­Street­Map ID
way 84759713
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­commercial
Wiki­data ID
Q5614090
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In Other Languages

“Guardian telephone exchange” goes by many names.
  • Hungarian: “Guardian telefonközpont”

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Highlights include Two St Peter’s Square and Soames.

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