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DIRECTORATE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
LOCATIONS Table of Major Sites
page 1 of 4
Over time, the Directorate expanded its operation within England and Wales to meet growing demands to provide communication services. This sub-section outlines where establishments were created, their purpose and where applicable, when they were closed, or transferred to ntl following the 1994 trade sale.
Major Establishments
As listed in the table opposite.
Other Establishments
During the late 1960's and early 70's, the Directorate set up some sixty outstations. Their purpose was to provide a localised first-line service to customers in a given county, with back-up and specialist support provided by the parent depot. The areas covered are shown in the map given in Locations 2.
Locations Index
Page 1 - Table of Major Site Locations
Page 2 - UK Map of Directorate Depots and Areas
Page 3 - Move of HQ to Ruddington in 1992
Page 4 - UK DTELS Service Centre Map
Source: Steven R. Cole
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Establishment
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Location
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Purpose
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Comments
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Headquarters
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Horseferry House
London (< Sept 1992)
then
Ruddington (1992-94)
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Determine policy, centralised engineering, administration, finance, personnel services, sales & marketing
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Management board and top-level operatives
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Centralised Support
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Harrow, Middlesex
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Central Stores and specialist support services
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Stanmore, Middlesex
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Training & specialist support services
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Staff training
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Weedon Northamptonshire
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Weyhill, Hampshire
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Maintenance Planning Group
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Determining maintenance policy, assessing reliability
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Maintenance Unit
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Bishops Cleeve
Kippax
Weyhill
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Centralised repair of high volume equipment and specialised systems
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Managed by a Chief Wireless Technican reporting to a HQ based Senior Wireless Engineer
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Wireless Depot
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Billinge, Merseyside
Bridgend, Glamorgan
Cheveley, Suffolk
Cranbrook, Kent
Hannington, Hampshire
Kippax, West Yorkshire
Marley Hill, Northumbria
Romsley, West Midlands
Shapwick, Somerset
Stanton, Leicestershire
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Regional field operations front-line support to major customers such as Police, Fire & Prison services covering a number of English or Welsh counties
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Regional Wireless Engineers managed each depot, along with a number of outstations; which usually provided county specific first-line support
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Wireless
Sub-Depot
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Colwyn Bay, Clwyd
Tavistock, Devon
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Similar role to its parent Wireless Depot, but covering large or difficult geographical areas
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Chief Wireless Technicians managing sub-depots, reporting to RWE Bridgend and Shapwick respectively
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