The Old Exchange
The HoEAS meeting rooms are situated in the Old Telephone Exchange, Furnace End, North Warwickshire (three miles East of Shustoke) on the B4098 ~ 20-m from the crossroads (N 52d 31' 10".01 W 01d 38' 08".57). The building is a converted 'old' telephone exchange, which members transformed over a period of a year with working parties every Sunday. There is plenty of private parking in the grounds of the telephone exchange.
The HoEAS meeting rooms are situated in the Old Telephone Exchange, Furnace End, North Warwickshire (three miles East of Shustoke) on the B4098 ~ 20-m from the crossroads (N 52d 31' 10".01 W 01d 38' 08".57). The building is a converted 'old' telephone exchange, which members transformed over a period of a year with working parties every Sunday. There is plenty of private parking in the grounds of the telephone exchange.
Google map can be found here
Google map can be found here
The Old Exchange meeting room at Furnace End.
The Old Exchange meeting room at Furnace End.
The rooms consist of a comfortably sized lecture room capable of seating around 25 people, and a kitchen area.
The rooms consist of a comfortably sized lecture room capable of seating around 25 people, and a kitchen area.
The grounds to the Old Exchange offers quite dark skies considering we are just 20 miles east of the centre of Birmingham.
The grounds to the Old Exchange offers quite dark skies considering we are just 20 miles east of the centre of Birmingham.
This is the view looking South West. In clear transparent skies, the ZLM (Zenith Limiting Magnitude) is +6.0.
This is the view looking South West. In clear transparent skies, the ZLM (Zenith Limiting Magnitude) is +6.0.
The larger BT exchange also in the grounds, houses one of the largest Pipistrelle Bat maternal roosts in the Midlands.
The larger BT exchange also in the grounds, houses one of the largest Pipistrelle Bat maternal roosts in the Midlands.