Kingsway telephone exchange
Kingsway telephone exchange was a Cold War-era hardened telephone exchange underneath High Holborn in London. Initially built as a deep-level air-raid shelter in the early 1940s, it was instead used as a government communications centre. In 1949 the General Post Office (GPO) took over the building, and in 1956 it became the UK termination point for TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable. Closure of the facility began in the 1980s. It was built together with underground exchanges in Birmingham and Manchester, and was originally covered by a D notice
Entrance to Kingsway Telephone Exchange at 39 Furnival Street
The tunnel in 2014
London deep-level shelters
The London deep-level shelters are eight deep-level air-raid shelters that were built under London Underground stations during World War II.
An upper level of one of the Belsize Park tunnels.
One of the entrances to the Stockwell shelter now decorated as a war memorial
One of the entrances to Clapham South in 2009. It has since been incorporated into a new residential development.