Barclay's Data Centre (Revisit 4 Years On) Wythenshawe - With Urbex Bon (Explore #11)

Barclay's Data Centre (Revisit 4 Years On) Wythenshawe - With Urbex Bon
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Barclays opened a state-of-the-art computer centre in Manchester in 1971. The 110,000 sq. ft. building cost £2.75 million and was the largest commercial computer Centre in Britain. It served 900 branches across the north of England, managing more than 2.25 million customer accounts.

Well before the merger with Barclays, the British Government makes it clear that the clearing banks should be computerized in time for decimalization on “D-Day” 15 February 1971. Martins is already researching long distance data transmission in the mid 1960s, and experiments successfully with the processing of the work of several Liverpool Branches at the LONDON Computer Centre, using the transmission of data down GPO telephone lines. With a large concentration of branches in the North of England, Martins chooses to develop a site at Wythenshawe, Manchester to provide a computer Centre that can handle the traffic of data being transmitted to and from these branches. Martins chooses Wythenshawe as it meets the requirements of the availability of GPO telephone lines, adequate labour resources and good road communications. The plans have to be put on hold pending the merger, but Barclays, faced with having to revise its own computerization methods once it takes over so many Northern branches, revisits Martins’ original plans and revises them to develop a much larger Centre on the same site. The Centre will be the receiving point for all input to the Branch Accounting Program by branches all over England, Wales the Channel islands and Isle of man. Thus Wythenshawe opens in November 1971, and goes on to serve the needs of Barclays’ computer operations for several decades; Barclays’ Gloucester Computer Centre handles a proportion of the work, and both centres are capable of taking over from each other in the case of major faults. Sadly as computer Centre technology becomes less labour intensive, Wythenshawe is eventually closed in the 1990s.

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1:00 - Ground Floor

8:08 - 1st Floor

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