Lead or Rumour info - Plymouth Telephone Exchange

[The Unveiled Brothers]

Walked around a place that I've never seen a part of my local area and found a giant office complex with structures rotting with some windows having metal gratings under it and the front door looked decayed, with a warning of cameras and alarms. Could be potential but don't see any information of it being open or shut or any info of it in general

 

[Exploring with Andy]

It's tricky with telephone exchanges as they are often neglected on the exterior. With the progression of automation and miniaturisation of technology much less of the old buildings are now required, however you'll often find that despite looking abandoned and having many disused areas, some areas of the building are still in use as part of the telephone and broadband infrastructure. They are always kept pretty secure while still in use. Don't let the look of the place fool you, if you believe it to be a telephone exchange be sure it's abandoned before trying to access it.

 

[mookster]

Standard for most large 1950s era telephone exchange buildings nowadays, they all kind of look like that despite many still being in use in a small part.

 

[Landie_Man]

The Aylesbury one has looked derp for as long as I can remember. But its defo still in use

 

[princethorpe]

BT/Openreach Have operated a bare minimum maintenance policy for quite a few years now. Hence they look abandoned. With new technology only small areas in many buildings are in use. Greater reliability many are often unvisited for long periods. I'm sure as further centralisation occurs many will get sold. Always used to be looks for the big ugly building when trying to locate one now the big ugly eyesore.