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Old 24th Sep 2021, 9:15 am   #10
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Default Re: Saxmundham former BT exchange to go on view after 50 years

Saxmundham was a Strowger GSC (Group Switching Centre) with a manual board (switchboard) attached. The ground floor was the equipment room and Post Office counter along with the mail sorting office. Upstairs was managers offices,rest room and manual board and stores. This floor was sold taken over by an insurance company years ago.
When I had the need to visit/work there back in the 60/70s I was led to believe that in the basement were kept a set of preformed concrete blocks to cover the equipment room street level windows in the event of the "cold war" getting hot. How these were expected to be moved I never found out!
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