Kingsway telephone exchange, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 40 relations: Air raid shelter, Anchor telephone exchange, Artesian well, BBC News, Birmingham, BT Group, Camden London Borough Council, Casino Royale (novel), Central line (London Underground), Chancery Lane tube station, City of London Corporation, Cold War, D-Notice, Elevator, General Post Office, Guardian telephone exchange, High Holborn, HM Land Registry, Ian Fleming, James Bond, James Herbert, London, London deep-level shelters, M (James Bond), Main distribution frame, Manchester, MI6, Military citadels under London, Pager, Public Record Office, Q (James Bond), Riebeckite, Special Operations Executive, TAT-1, Telephone exchange, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times, The Rats (novel), Transatlantic communications cable, WilkinsonEyre.

2. Fortifications of London
3. History of the London Borough of Camden
4. Nuclear bunkers in the United Kingdom
5. Subterranean London
6. Telephone exchange buildings

Air raid shelter

Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of non-combatants as well as combatants against enemy attacks from the air.

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Anchor telephone exchange

Anchor Exchange was an underground, hardened telephone exchange built in Birmingham, England. Kingsway telephone exchange and Anchor telephone exchange are British Telecom buildings and structures, Nuclear bunkers in the United Kingdom and telephone exchange buildings.

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Artesian well

An artesian well is a well that brings groundwater to the surface without pumping because it is under pressure within a body of rock and/or sediment known as an aquifer.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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BT Group

BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England.

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Camden London Borough Council

Camden London Borough Council, also known as Camden Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London, England.

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Casino Royale (novel)

Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming.

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Central line (London Underground)

The Central line is a London Underground line that runs through central London, from, Essex, in the north-east to and in west London.

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Chancery Lane tube station

Chancery Lane is a London Underground station on the Central line between Holborn and The City in Central London, England.

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City of London Corporation

The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the local authority of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the United Kingdom's financial sector.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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D-Notice

In the United Kingdom, D-Notices, officially known since 2015 as DSMA-Notices (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notices), are official requests to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.

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Elevator

An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969.

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Guardian telephone exchange

Guardian Exchange was an underground telephone exchange built in Manchester from 1954 to 1957. Kingsway telephone exchange and Guardian telephone exchange are British Telecom buildings and structures, Nuclear bunkers in the United Kingdom and telephone exchange buildings.

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High Holborn

High Holborn is a street in Holborn and Farringdon Without, Central London, which forms a part of the A40 route from London to Fishguard.

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HM Land Registry

His Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales.

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Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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James Herbert

James John Herbert, OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) was an English horror writer.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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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. Kingsway telephone exchange and London deep-level shelters are Infrastructure in London and Subterranean London.

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M (James Bond)

M is a codename held by a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond book and film series; the character is the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service for the agency known as MI6.

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Main distribution frame

In telephony, a main distribution frame (MDF or main frame) is a signal distribution frame for connecting equipment (inside plant) to cables and subscriber carrier equipment (outside plant).

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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MI6

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.

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Military citadels under London

A number of military citadels are known to have been constructed underground in central London, dating mostly from the Second World War and the Cold War. Kingsway telephone exchange and military citadels under London are Fortifications of London, Infrastructure in London and Subterranean London.

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A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages.

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Public Record Office

The Public Record Office (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as the PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form The National Archives, based in Kew.

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Q (James Bond)

Q is a character in the James Bond films and novelisations.

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Riebeckite

Riebeckite is a sodium-rich member of the amphibole group of silicate minerals, chemical formula Na2(Fe2+3Fe3+2)Si8O22(OH)2.

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Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II.

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TAT-1

TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. Kingsway telephone exchange and TAT-1 are British Telecom buildings and structures.

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Telephone exchange

A telephone exchange, also known as a telephone switch or central office, is a crucial component in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or large enterprise telecommunications systems.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Rats (novel)

The Rats (1974) is a horror novel by British writer James Herbert.

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Transatlantic communications cable

A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other.

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WilkinsonEyre

WilkinsonEyre is an international architecture practice based in London, England.

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See also

Fortifications of London

• Churchill War Rooms
• Fort Halstead
• Fortifications of London
• GHQ Line
• Kingsway telephone exchange
• Lines of Communication (London)
• London Defence Positions
• London Wall
• Military citadels under London
• Outer London Defence Ring
• Paddock (war rooms)
• Tower Dock
• Tower of London

History of the London Borough of Camden

• Basil Jellicoe
• Bedford Estate
• Bloomsbury Gang
• Bloomsbury Group
• Camden Town Group
• Central Electricity Generating Board
• City and South London Railway
• Co-operative Permanent Building Society
• Cyberia, London
• Decca Studios
• Dillons the Bookstore
• Diorama Arts Cooperative
• English Folk Dance and Song Society
• Euston Road School
• Field of the Forty Footsteps
• Highgate Vampire
• History of University College London
• Holborn District (Metropolis)
• Kentish Town rail accident
• Kilburn Priory
• Kingsway telephone exchange
• Kingsway tramway subway
• List of accidents and incidents at London King's Cross railway station
• London Beer Flood
• London Fever Hospital
• Lyndhurst Hall, Kentish Town
• Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
• Music Hall Strike of 1907
• Portpool
• St Pancras West (UK Parliament constituency)
• Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
• The Diorama, Regent's Park
• The Grove, Highgate

Nuclear bunkers in the United Kingdom

• Anchor telephone exchange
• Brandsby Royal Observer Corps monitoring post
• Central Government War Headquarters
• Corsham Computer Centre
• Drakelow Tunnels
• Guardian telephone exchange
• Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
• Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
• Kingsway telephone exchange
• RAF Shipton
• RNAD Coulport
• Region 6 War Room
• Wood Norton Hall
• York Cold War Bunker

Subterranean London

• Beneath the City Streets
• Camden Catacombs
• Catacombs of London
• Chislehurst Caves
• Churchill War Rooms
• Civil defence centres in London
• Criterion Theatre
• Denehole
• Hatton Garden
• Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary
• Kingsway telephone exchange
• List of former and unopened London Underground stations
• London Pneumatic Despatch Company
• London Post Office Railway
• London Silver Vaults
• London Underground
• London Underground stations
• London deep-level shelters
• London sewer system
• Military citadels under London
• Night Tube
• Northern Outfall Sewer
• Oxgate Admiralty Citadel
• Paddock (war rooms)
• Selfridges, Oxford Street
• Southern Outfall Sewer
• St Leonard's Court
• Stamford Brook
• Subterranean London
• Subterranean rivers of London

Telephone exchange buildings

• 33 Thomas Street
• 375 Pearl Street
• 60 Hudson Street
• 81 Willoughby Street
• 811 Tenth Avenue
• AT&T Huron Road Building
• AT&T Switching Center
• American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Building (Davenport, Iowa)
• American Telephone and Telegraph Company Building (Denmark, South Carolina)
• Anchor telephone exchange
• Barclay–Vesey Building
• Baynard House, London
• Bell Telephone Building (St. Louis, Missouri)
• BellTel Lofts
• Caroone House
• Central New York Telephone and Telegraph Building
• Chicago Telephone Company Kedzie Exchange
• Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building
• Faraday Building
• Grace Building, Sydney
• Guardian telephone exchange
• Highgate Wood telephone exchange
• Kingsway telephone exchange
• List of telephone company buildings
• List of telephone exchanges in London
• Lumen Technologies Building
• Mallord Street
• Mondial House
• Mountain States Telephone Building
• New England Telephone Building
• Old Telephone Exchange, Belgrade
• One Wilshire
• Providence Telephone Building
• Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company Building (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
• Snow Camp Mutual Telephone Exchange Building
• Southern Bell Telephone Company Building
• Southern New England Telephone Company Building
• Stag Lane Aerodrome
• Telephone Co. Building (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
• Telephone Exchange Building (Norwich, Connecticut)
• Union Electric Telephone & Telegraph
• Webster Telephone Exchange Building

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsway_telephone_exchange

Also known as BT Tunnels, Kingsway Exchange, Kingsway Trunk Switching Centre, Kingsway Tunnels.