Anchor Exchange
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[[Category:Nuclear bunkers]]
'''Anchor Exchange''' was an underground [[telephone exchange]] built in [[Birmingham]], [[England]] in the [[1950]]s. It was built together with the [[Guardian Exchange]] in [[Manchester]] and the [[Kingsway Exchange]] in [[London]] to provide hardened communications in the event of [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]]. In common with most [[civil defence]] structures of the time it was designed to withstand [[atomic bomb]]s, although would not have survived a direct hit.
It takes its name from Birmingham's [[hallmark]], which depicts an [[anchor]].
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