Miners with Acetylene Lamps in Hats Wheal Veor
Surface
MWork
Miners at Wheal Veor (Wheal Vor) Mine, wearing gear and helmets with acetylene lamps.
Angove
Morrab Library
1945
Morrab Library
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MIN 6.006
Wheal Veor
Engineers landing Cable at Porthcurno CS Monarch
Cable
Landsea Buoy
MWork
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.
Angove
Morrab Library
1979-10-02
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COMM 8.005
Porthcurno
C & W Cable in Trench on Porthcurno Beach
Cable
Bulldozer
MWork
C.S Retriver (4,000 tons) laid the shoe-end section of the Auckland/Sydney and Auckland/Suva sections of the Commonwealth Pacific Cable, which stretches from Vancouver in Canada to Sydney in Australia via Suva and Auckland in NZ.
This picture shows the workmen, who have just laid the cable a prepared ditch in the sand which leads to the cable room on the beach, and from there to the terminal building at Paddington.
Angove
Morrab Library
1962-04
Cable & Wireless
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COMM 8.025
Porthcurno
Loading China Clay from Horse & Cart onto Ship
Manufacture
MWork PlayC
Loading china clay from a horse and cart onto a ship in Penzance.
Angove
Morrab Library
1920
Morrab Library
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IND 8.004
Penzance