Underneath Manchester lies a secret facility that was built during the Cold War in the event of a nuclear attack. Guardian telephone exchange, also known as ‘Scheme 567’, consists of a hidden web of tunnels and a bunker buried around 35 metres under Manchester’s streets.
It’s said that there were two secret doorway entrances into the site, one in Chinatown and the other behind the Piccadilly Hotel.
Built between 1954 and 1957 when tensions were high, the exchange’s purpose was to provide hardened communications between the UK Government in London and the US Government in Washington in the event of a nuclear war breaking out.
The facility was also a fully operational fault repair centre for Manchester’s domestic and business telephone systems. READ MORE: From Belle Vue to The Water Place: Manchester's lost attractions and what they became Guardian was one of three such facilities, the others being Birmingham’s Anchor exchange and London’s Kingsway exchange.
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