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Drawing of PO Telegraph Office Late 19th Cent
Telegraph Office, Telegraph Street, London, EC1. The Metropolitan Gallery, 1871.
Typical Post Office telegraph office of the late 19th century. This is the Metropolitan Gallery at Telegraph Street, London EC1. Some of the positions have Morse…
Typical Post Office telegraph office of the late 19th century. This is the Metropolitan Gallery at Telegraph Street, London EC1. Some of the positions have Morse…
Cable & Wireless Cable on Sea Bed off Bermuda
This photograph shows submarine telephone cable (shore end) on the seabed off Bermuda, part of the Canberra Project.
Morse Key & Operator. Galvanometer
Ladies operating a single-current Morse key. Note the 'sounder' backed by a reflecting device to localise the sound. In front of the key can be seen instruments for adjusting the signals and a galvanometer which indicates the presence or otherwise of…
C & W Staff in Tunnel on Closure 31.12.70
PREVREF 1733 duplicate photo
Equipment at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno
Equipment at Porthcurno
Equipment at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno with Richard Angove
Richard Angove at Supervisor's table at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.
Loading Cable on CS Mercury
This photograph shows a man loading cable in one of the three tanks on C.S. Mercury.
Cable & Wireless Copyright
Cable & Wireless Copyright
Sea Plow Cutting Trench for Cable
The Cable & Wireless sea plow at work cutting a trench for the cable on the seabed.
Cable & Wireless Copyright
Cable & Wireless Copyright
Operator Servicing Equipment
An operator servicing the equipment at Cable & Wireless.
Richard Angove at Cable & Wireless Supervisor's Desk
Richard Angove sitting at Supervisor's Desk at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno, surrounded by equipment.
Control Console & Teleprinters Relay Room at Porthcurno Cable Station
A general view of the main cable relay equipment room at Porthcurno Cable Station, looking west and showing the control consul, monitoring teleprinters, etc. in the foreground.
Cable & Wireless Telegram Form
Cable & Wireless telegraph form
Engineers landing Cable at Porthcurno CS Monarch
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.
Sea Plow being lifted aboard the John Cabot
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 Cable being floated in on Drums at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.
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.
G W Railway Buses & Passengers at Poldhu Hotel, 1900
Delegates leaving Radio Conference for Helston. Bus AF 65 first in Feb 1904. PREVREF 1824 duplicate photo
Staff in Cable & Wireless Control Room, Porthcurno
Staff (Richard Angove with Mr Elms and Mr Gibbens) in Cable & Wireless Control Room, Porthcurno
Group of 4 men probably C & W Staff
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.
Photo taken by Mrs Phipps during a visit. Bob Ellick on right, Barry Willow next to him. They are from St Helena.
C & Wireless Ship Recorder 3300 Tons Built 1954
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)
(duplicate of SHIP 4.034)
