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Summary of comparisonsMany hundreds of telephone exchange buildings were constructed from the 1910s onwards in Victoria. They have been built in a wide range of twentieth century architectural styles. The 1922 building at the Collingwood Telephone Exchange is among the first of the purpose-built automatic telephone exchanges to be constructed in Victoria after World War I. However, when considered together with the large number of buildings to which its function and style characteristics – and its importance to the course of Victoria’s history – can be compared, the Collingwood Telephone Exchange is not a notable example of its class. There are some Brutalist-style elements at this place. But when compared with examples of Brutalism in the VHR, the Collingwood Telephone Exchange does not display characteristics of state level significance which would make it a notable example of Brutalist-style architecture. KEY REFERENCES USED TO PREPARE ASSESSMENTCommonwealth Government Department of Works & Railways, February 1923, Schedule of Works, via National Archive of Australia: A106/1, G24/2898. Department of Construction, Victoria & Tasmania Region: Project No. V 76/45, ‘Collingwood 3066 Telephone Exchange Alterations & Additions’ – set of 21 construction drawings, dated 15 April 1977. Freeman, A.H., History of Telephone Switching Technology in Australia: 1880 to 1980, Australian Telecommunications Monograph No.5. Moyal, Ann, 1984, Clear across Australia: A history of telecommunications, Thomas Nelson: Melbourne. Moynihan, J.F., Early Automatic Telephony in Australia, Second National Conference of Engineering Heritage, Melbourne, 20-22 May 1985. National Archive of Australia: Series No. B6295 photographs of Collingwood Telephone Exchange, taken Feb 1972 to July 1973
Parliament of Australia: House of Representatives Committees, List of Committee Reports by Subject ‘Telephone Exchange’, via http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_representatives_Committees?url=report_register/bykeylist.asp?id=1254 Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, 25 October 1915, Report together with Minutes of Evidence relating to the questions of: Provision of Automatic Telephone Exchange, Sydney; Provision of Automatic Telephone Exchange, Malvern; Provision of Automatic Telephone Exchange, Collingwood. Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, 10 May 1968, Report relating to the proposal to extend the Hawthorn Telephone Exchange Melbourne, Victoria. Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, 30 May 1973, Report relating to the proposed construction of Extensions to Windsor Telephone Exchange Melbourne, Victoria. The Post Office at Cheltenham, on ‘City of Kingston historical website’, via http://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/htm/article/56.htm Ryan, F.J., City West Telephone Exchange, Melbourne, Postal Electrical Society of Victoria, Paper No.23, 10 February 1936. ‘The Switching Place: The Story of Telephone Exchanges – Telecom Information Kit No.3’,
‘The Switching Place: The Story of Telephone Exchanges – Telecom Information Kit No.3’, Section 5: The Telephone Exchange: Wiring and Other Elements, July 1993, Telecom Australia Education Development Unit. Telecom Museum, on ‘only Melbourne’ website, via http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/telecom-museum#.WQtpmsYlGUk Telephone Exchanges 100 Years 1883-1983: Telecommunications Museum Report 1983, Telecom Australia (Adelaide, South Australia). The Telstra Museum: A Telecommunications Treasure Trove, on ‘Shack West’ website, via http://shackwest.com.au/2013/01/24/the-telstra-museum/ Telstra Museum Melbourne, on ‘Victoria’s Accredited Museums’ website, via https://www.victorianmuseums.com.au/telstra-museum-melbourne#1 Telstra Museum virtual tour, on ‘Telstra Exchange’ website, via https://exchange.telstra.com.au/telstra-museum-virtual-tour/ Victorian State Telephone Directories 1913, ‘List of Exchanges, Situation, and Particulars of Service, 15th March, 1913’. Victorian State Telephone Directories 1923, ‘Postmaster General’s Department (Victoria)’. Victorian Telecommunications Museum Visit, on ‘Museums Victoria’ website, via https://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-blog/dec-2010/victorian-telecommunications-museum-visit/ ‘Visit’, in Victorian Institute of Engineers – 1912, May 11th, [photos and account of a visit by Institute members to the new ‘Central’ exchange in Lonsdale Street] via https://digitised-collections.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/24538/307077_UDS2013255-12-0006.pdf?sequence=1 Ward, A., 2017, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, Citation No.2312 [for Telephone Exchange at 255 Bank Street, South Melbourne].
via http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16494&start=250 Newspaper reportsThe Age, 6 Nov 1915, p.12, [plans for Malvern and Collingwood automatic telephone exchanges] The Age, 29 July 1919: p.5, [opening of Malvern automatic telephone exchange] The Age, Fri 13 October 1922, p.10, ‘THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM. COLLINGWOOD AUTOMATIC EXCHANGE. TO BE OPENED TO-MORROW’. The Argus, Wed 26 April 1922, p.15, ‘TELEPHONE CONGESTION. RELIEVING CENTRAL EXCHANGE. New Building at Collingwood.’ The Argus, Thu 17 August 1922, p.6, ‘NEW TELEPHONE EXCHANGE. RELIEVING CONGESTION IN CITY. Waiting list Reduced.’ The Argus, Mon 2 October 1922, p.6, ‘AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES. New Exchange at Collingwood.’ The Argus, Sat 14 October 1922, p.26, ‘COLLINGWOOD TELEPHONES.’ The Argus, Wed 25 October 1922, p.19, ‘WAITING FOR TELEPHONES: LONG DELAYED RELIEF. Position at Central Exchange.’ The Argus, 27 May 1929: p.12, [opening of Elsternwick automatic telephone exchange] ADDITIONAL IMAGES
View from north-west, at corner of Wellington and Glasgow Streets (March 2017) 
View from south-west, at corner of Wellington and Northumberland Streets (March 2017) 
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