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COMM 6.001.tif
DUPLICATE OF COMM 6.005

View from Porthcurno of Marconi Signal Station at Poldhu Transmitter on the Lizard Peninsula, from where Eastern Telegraph Co conducted industrial espionage.

General view of Poldhu Wireless Station. These 300-foot timber…

COMM 4.002.tif
Richard Angove at Supervisor's table at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.

COMM 8.002.tif
This photograph shows a man loading cable in one of the three tanks on C.S. Mercury.

Cable & Wireless Copyright

COMM 8.003.tif
The Cable & Wireless sea plow at work cutting a trench for the cable on the seabed.

Cable & Wireless Copyright

COMM 8.004.tif
An operator servicing the equipment at Cable & Wireless.

COMM 4.003.tif
Richard Angove sitting at Supervisor's Desk at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno, surrounded by equipment.

COMM 6.003.tif
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.

COMM 6.004.tif
Cable & Wireless telegraph form

COMM 8.005.tif
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.

COMM 4.004.tif
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.

COMM 4.005.tif
Staff (Richard Angove with Mr Elms and Mr Gibbens) in Cable & Wireless Control Room, Porthcurno

COMM 4.006.tif
The shore-end of a cable being landed at Porthcurno (Cable & Wireless), shown with line of men digging trench on shore.

COMM 6.005.tif
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…

COMM 6.006.tif
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…

COMM 6.007.tif
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…

COMM 6.008.tif
A blurry photo of a piece of equipment used at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.

COMM 8.009.tif
Cable & Wireless telegraph form.

COMM 8.010.tif
Spectators on the cliffs watching Cable & Wireless preparations for the cable landing on Porthcurno Beach. Bulldozers are pictured on the beach.

COMM 8.011.tif
Britains Ocean Telegraph Cables fan out into the Atlantic from the sandy beach of Porthcurno, a Cornish cove near Land's End. These cables, which are linked with the 155,000-mile network owned by Cable & Wireless Ltd., are operated from the company's…
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