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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.
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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.

Workmen and solid-tyred Thornycroft lorry in coal yard.

Dorothy Rowena Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre.

PREVREF 1499 duplicate photo

Rowena Cade working at the Minack Theatre at age 80.

Rowena Cade, pictured at age 80 at the Minack Theatre. This photograph is one of a collection which was used in a London-published magazine feature in 1975, written and illustrated by Richard Angove.

A general view of the interior of Swindon Works.

Men painting the side of an unknown ship.

A horse-powered winding "whim". A whim, also called a whim gin or a horse capstan, is a device similar to a windlass used in mining for hauling materials to the surface. It comprises a capstan or a wide drum with a vertical axle. A rope is wound…

Miners at Wheal Veor (Wheal Vor) Mine, wearing gear and helmets with acetylene lamps.

Hawkes Farm on Alverton Road in Penzance prepared for thatching.

Wheelwright working. c 1930..

Wheelwright working . c 1930..