Title
Staff & Probationers await C & W Cable Ship
Subject
General Group
Building Cliff
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Description
Staff and probationers waiting on the cliffside for the arrival of a cable ship to lay a shore-end into the beach in 1876. Note: the new staff quarters in the background. The small wooden hut was then the cable terminal to be expanded to a bigger building in 1912.
Date
1876
Identifier
PEOP 6.008
Coverage
Porthcurno
Period Costume
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