BT Roundabout OL6 6QQ
In 1913 Ashton is already a crowded town, a cotton town.
The first telephone exchange arrives and sweeps away property at the junction of Scotland and Bedford Streets.
The second arrives along with the bypass and establishes a roundabout, an island of telecommunication.
There they sit betwixt St Michael’s Parish Church and Albion Congregational.
A marriage of inter-war brick Revivalism and post-war concrete Brutalism.
Ninety nine point nine percent of the passing parade pass by onto the bypass by car, I took time to circumnavigate the site on foot.
This is what I saw.
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HI is it out of use ?
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It’s still in use however the original (red brick) section is no longer operational and inaccessible due to asbestos and lack of maintenance.
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Can you please tell me where you got the information regarding lack of maintenance and presence of asbestos from
Thank you
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It’s ALSO a case of the entire telephone exchange for our district requiring only a small fraction of the floor-space, compared with what was required a generation ago – all due to the astounding advances in IT software and hardware, miniaturisation, etc.
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Quite so, along with every other BT building, speaking with engineers they were unaware of any plans to repurpose the empty space, it may well be a security issue.
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