Electra House, Grade II listed building in Moorgate, City of London, England.
Electra House is a Grade II listed building located at 84 Moorgate in the City of London. It has a classical stone facade and has been updated over the decades with modern lifts, secondary glazing, and rooftop additions.
The Eastern Telegraph Company built the structure in 1902 to serve as a major communications hub in London. It later became a wartime base for Cable & Wireless Limited and hosted a secret government unit before eventually becoming an educational facility.
The building takes its name from the Electra cable, an undersea telegraph line that once connected Britain to the Netherlands as part of a global network. The name is still visible on the facade today, though most passersby rarely stop to think about what it once meant.
The building sits a short walk from Moorgate station, making it easy to reach on foot from several nearby tube lines. The Fashion Retail Academy now occupies the interior, so public access is limited to certain areas of the ground floor.
Department EH, the secret unit based here during the war, was eventually folded into the Special Operations Executive, the agency Churchill reportedly called his ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. Few visitors today realize that this ordinary-looking office building once played a role in wartime espionage.
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