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Openreach currently has 5600 telephone exchanges, they aim to close 4600 of them, initially 108 exchanges will be closed by 2030 then the rest after that, no Wirral exchanges are to close before 2030.
The exchanges to remain open are called enduring exchanges, here is a list of those Wirral ones which will be kept.
Arrowebrook
Bromborough
Claughton
Ellesmere Port
Rock Ferry
Wallasey
Those to close are:-
Birkenhead
Caldy
Eastham
Heswall
Hooton
Hoylake
Irby
Mountwood
Neston
I was surprised to see Liverpool Central, the massive Lancaster House building on Old Hall Street is to close as an exchange.
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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Thought I'd add a bit of detail include the old exchange dialling code and numbers
Arrowebrook
Church Road, Upton
ARR 051 277
Birkenhead
Built 1914
Marlon Street, Birkenhead
BIR 051 247
Bromborough
Built 1948
Croft Avenue East, Bromborough
BRO 051 270
Burton
The Rake, Burton
Closed 1968
Caldy
Built 1964
Yew Tree Lane, West Kirby
CLA 051 225
Claughton
Roland House, Palm Grove, Prenton
CLA 051 252
Eastham
Bridle Road, Eastham
EAS 051 327
Ellesmere Port
Oxford Street, Ellesmere Port
ELL 051 355
Heswall
The Mount, Heswall
HES(?) 051 342
Closed
Heswall
Pensby Road, Heswall
0151 342
Hooton
Built 1968
Chester Road, Little Sutton
HOO 051 400
Hoylake
The Quadrant, Hoylake
Closed 1966
Hoylake
Built 1966
Birkenhead Road, Hoylake
Irby
Built 1946
IRB 051 472
Liscard
Built 1914
Zig Zag Road, Wallasey
Closed 1917
Mountwood
Built 1948
Prenton Road West, Prenton
MOU 051 608
Neston
Leighton Road, Neston
New Brighton
Built 1954
Became Wallasey 1964
Kenwyn Road, Wallasey
NEW 051 639
WAL 051 638
Rock Ferry
Rock Lane West, Rock Ferry
ROC 051 702
Thornton Hough
Built 1930s
Neston Road, Thornton Hough
Closed 1968
Wallasey (also see New Brighton)
Built 1921
Liscard Village, Liscard
WAL 051 925
Closed 1964
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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I imagine almost all phone traffic now goes via the internet i which case you don't need exchanges at all. Its all done by small routers. I image exchanges now d little more than translate your phone number to an email address, digitise the speech and break it into packets.sith the email address of who you are calling.
There will be no switching going on at all there.
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I imagine almost all phone traffic now goes via the internet i which case you don't need exchanges at all. Its all done by small routers. I image exchanges now d little more than translate your phone number to an email address, digitise the speech and break it into packets.sith the email address of who you are calling.
There will be no switching going on at all there. You still need computer centres to act as the equivalent of concentrators, switches and routers, that is mostly why they are keeping 1000 exchanges open.
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I had a friend who worked in the Post Office Research centre in Dollis Hill in london. He was in one of the big London exchanges one evening doing some experimental work there.
At the time the equipment was all Strowger - relays and selectors all of which are in frequent motion and made exchanges - especially big ones very noisy places. You have to shout to make yourself heard in some parts.
Suddenly, he said the more or less constant noise increased, rose to crescendo, and then went completely silent. Every line was in use and there was no switching going on. There was panic with people running about trying to work out what had happened, but then the news trickled through that President Kenedy had been shot.
It seemed that everyone's first reaction to the news was to pick up a telephone and ask a friend if they'd heard the news overloading the exchange. He reported that it took about an hour for the traffic to revert to its normal level of noise.
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