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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

C.S. Cable Enterprise (4,200 tons gross) built for Cable & Wireless by Cammell Laird & Co Ltd in 1964, seen here on her sea trials off the Scottish coast.

DUPLICATE OF COMM 6.001

General view of Poldhu Wireless Station. These 300-foot timber masts dominated the Lizard Peninsula for half a century and could be seen from Land's End to the Camborne-Redruth area. They were dismantled in the late 1930s…

TWO COPIES OF PHOTO

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…

Names on the back:
Summerull, Firmin, Watkins, Maner, ?, Bartlett,
Cleavor, Barlow, Bentley
Talbot, Mockett, Purvis, Hanson, Stevenson

A blurry photo of a piece of equipment used at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.

Potential Cable & Wireless radio operators training at the Marconi Radio School, Marconi House, Strand, London in 1912. Students sitting at desks, writing and wearing headphones.

(2 copies of photo)

Typical Morse sounder and single-current key as used by the GPO, railway companies, ship-shore and coastguard stations from the 1880s to 1930s. Note, the metal (usually sheet brass) "reflector" to localise the signal.