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activities continue concurrently and subsequently to the private telegraph and telephone companies. These are documented in the records of the Post Office telegraph and telephone service 1864-1969 and the Post Office Corporation (Telecommunications division) 1969-1981.
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and is open, by appointment, to public researchers on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am – 4:00pm. There is no access charge. Holborn was the first public automatic exchange in London in 1927, see
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BT Archives also holds records of the private telephone companies and of the Post Office telephone services. The private telephone companies represented are the
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BT Archives cares for more than 500,000 images and 1,000 film titles. Selected images can be found on BT Archives online image gallery.
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The records include minutes, subject files, photographs, film and advertising material that tell the story of
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from the first one issued in 1880. For preservation reasons the phone books are generally accessed on
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network, the heritage initiative founded by BT in 2001 to safeguard telecommunications artefacts.
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Descriptions of the historic collections are available on the BT Archives online catalogue.
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from 1846. Other private telegraph companies whose records are held are the British
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in the UK and from the UK to overseas, from the formation of the private
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BT Archives and Connected Earth together form BT Heritage, part of BT's
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Full access, acquisition and preservation policies can be found on the
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preserving the documentary heritage of the British telecoms company
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predecessors. It is designated an official place of deposit for
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From 1 October 1981, British Telecommunications, trading as
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Lancashire and Cheshire Telephonic Exchange Company Limited
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The British Phone Book collection is a major resource for
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The earliest records held by BT Archives are those of the
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companies in the nineteenth century to the present day.
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BT Archives is based in Holborn Telephone Exchange on
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Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden
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History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
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archive
BT
public sector
Public Records
BT's privatisation
telecommunications
telegraph
telephone
Electric Telegraph Company
Electric Telegraph Company
International Telegraph Company
Submarine Telegraph Company
Electric and International Telegraph Company
British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
London District Telegraph Company
United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company
Universal Private Telegraph Company
Eastern Telegraph Company
British Telegraph Company
Irish Submarine Telegraph Company
English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
Anglo-American Telegraph Company
Post Office
Telephone Company Limited (Bell's Patents)
Edison Telephone Company of London Limited
United Telephone Company
Lancashire and Cheshire Telephonic Exchange Company Limited
Northern District Telephone Company
National Telephone Company

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