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Delegates leaving Radio Conference for Helston. Bus AF 65 first in Feb 1904. PREVREF 1824 duplicate photo

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

Group of four men wearing suits, probably staff from Cable & Wireless.

Photo taken by Mrs Phipps during a visit. Bob Ellick on right, Barry Willow next to him. They are from St Helena.

C.S. Recorder, weighing 3,300 tons gross, built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1954, seen here in the Tyne as she went on her sea trials.

(duplicate of SHIP 4.034)

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

C.S. Retriever, weighing 4,000 tons gross, built for Cable & Wireless by Cammell, Laird & Co, Ltd (shipbuilders and engineers) in 1960, seen here in 1961 on her sea trials off the Scottish coast.

Buckingham body. First luxury ride after short wheelbased solid-tyred buses used on Cornish Services since 1900. All buses transferred in 1929 to form Western National.

C.S. Stanley Angwin (2,500 tons gross), built for Cable & Wireless by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd in 1952. Seen here on her sea trials in the North Sea.

A stone bridge spanning a river with a large tree on the nearer side of the river. A woman is standing under the tree.

C.S. Recorder (3,300 tons gross) built for Cable & Wireless by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson in 1954, seen here in the Tyne as she went on her sea trials.

(duplicate of SHIP 4.031)

Staff at Porthcurno Cable Station.

C.S. Edward Wilshaw (2,247 tons gross) built for Cable & Wireless by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1949, seen here leaving the Tyne for her sea trials.

PREVREF 1727 duplicate photo

C.S. Cable Enterprise (4,200 tons gross) built for Cable & Wireless by Cammell Laird & Co Ltd in 1964, seen here on her sea trials off the Scottish coast.

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…

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…