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Spectators on the cliffs watching Cable & Wireless preparations for the cable landing on Porthcurno Beach. Bulldozers are pictured on the beach.

Cable & Wireless telegraph form.

PRINT OF PART OF SCAPE 8.062

CABLE AND WIRELESS BUILDINGS

Four Cable & Wireless men working on the beach.

Cable & Wireless granite pyramid marking the 1880 cable landing.

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.

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)

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

Staff at Porthcurno Cable Station.

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)

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