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Engineers from the Plymouth Area and Post Office's THQ Marine Branch landing the shore-end from HMTS Monarch (CS, if preferred) on Porthcurno Beach on 2 October 1979.

A sea plow designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories to bury the underwater telephone cable below the ocean floor is lifted from the sea by a crane aboard the John Cabot, a Canadian cable repair ship and icebreaker. The plow was used by the American…

Shore-end of a cable being floated in on drums at Cable & Wireless in Porthcurno. Ship in the distance and three men on the shore, two of whom are digging.

Delegates leaving Radio Conference for Helston. Bus AF 65 first in Feb 1904. PREVREF 1824 duplicate photo

Staff (Richard Angove with Mr Elms and Mr Gibbens) in Cable & Wireless Control Room, Porthcurno

Group of four men wearing suits, probably staff from Cable & Wireless.

Photo taken by Mrs Phipps during a visit. Bob Ellick on right, Barry Willow next to him. They are from St Helena.

C.S. Recorder, weighing 3,300 tons gross, built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1954, seen here in the Tyne as she went on her sea trials.

(duplicate of SHIP 4.034)

The shore-end of a cable being landed at Porthcurno (Cable & Wireless), shown with line of men digging trench on shore.

C.S. Retriever, weighing 4,000 tons gross, built for Cable & Wireless by Cammell, Laird & Co, Ltd (shipbuilders and engineers) in 1960, seen here in 1961 on her sea trials off the Scottish coast.

Buckingham body. First luxury ride after short wheelbased solid-tyred buses used on Cornish Services since 1900. All buses transferred in 1929 to form Western National.

C.S. Stanley Angwin (2,500 tons gross), built for Cable & Wireless by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd in 1952. Seen here on her sea trials in the North Sea.

A stone bridge spanning a river with a large tree on the nearer side of the river. A woman is standing under the tree.

C.S. Recorder (3,300 tons gross) built for Cable & Wireless by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson in 1954, seen here in the Tyne as she went on her sea trials.

(duplicate of SHIP 4.031)

Staff at Porthcurno Cable Station.

C.S. Edward Wilshaw (2,247 tons gross) built for Cable & Wireless by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1949, seen here leaving the Tyne for her sea trials.

PREVREF 1727 duplicate photo