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The earliest record of Ding Dong is given by John Norden at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1714 three separate mines were operating: Good Fortune, Wheal Malkin and Hard Shafts Bounds.

The earliest record of Ding Dong is given by John Norden at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1714 three separate mines were operating: Good Fortune, Wheal Malkin and Hard Shafts Bounds.

This dish is 90-feet across and is 'locked' onto a satellite 23,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. The surface of the dish is polished aluminium. The faint signals are reflected onto the centre of the tripod can be seen built onto the dish.

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One of seven dishes at Goodhilly. It is tuned to a satellite 23,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. Its surface is of polished aluminium. Signals are reflected onto the centre of the tripled which can be seen built onto and…

This photograph shows the complex nature of the aerial at Goonhilly Earth Station. In the centre of the picture can been seen one of the two large concrete counterbalancing weights. Each aerial can be moved in any direction on the horizontal plane…

Underwater photograph of deep-sea divers adjusting tow line on sea low. The low, designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories to bury undersea telephone cable below the ocean floor, was used by American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Long Lines…

PHOTO OF AN ENGRAVING DATED 1831
One of Cornwall's oldest, biggest and richest mines. Mineral recovery started on the site started in the C16 and continued until the 1920 earning many fortunes for its shareholders. Over £6 million of Copper & Tin…

Dolcoath Mine surface complex

The Battery on Battery Rocks visible. St Marys Church has half a Spire

Dorothy Rowena Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre.

PREVREF 1499 duplicate photo

Believed to be Crownhill or Roborough

Eddystone Lighthouse. Photo taken in 1882 showing ladders, etc. still in position on the newly-completed Douglass Tower on the Eddystone reef. Semitone's tower, soon to be partly dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe, is seen on the adjoining rocks.…