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Poldhu Wireless Station 300ft Masts & Huts
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…
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…
Porthcurno Cable Station
Operating C & W Relay Equipment. General view of cable relay equipment when moved into new tunnels early in WW2. This view shows half the room, a similar length lies behind the camera. The lamps on the wall (red homewards and green outwards) are…
R Angove at C & W Test Bench on Maintenance
Richard Angove at the test bench at Cable & Wireless doing regular maintenance work (routining) on the synchroniser. Drive relays are shown behind two clock controls at the top left of the photograph. The bottom of the clock can be seen between them.
Richard Angove at Cable & Wireless Cable Chain Countrol Console
Richard Angove pictured at Porthcurno cable station (Cable & Wireless). This is a view of the cable chain control console. Teleprinters (Creed 75s), tape-readers and Creed Autos for monitoring purposes are centrally situated. Cable relay equipment is…
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.