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Mayor and Mayoress of Penzance Cable & Wireless
Mayor & Mayoress of Penzance Town Clerk vicar of Gulval and his wife
Loading China Clay from Horse & Cart onto Ship
Loading china clay from a horse and cart onto a ship in Penzance.
Telephone Operators at Manual Switchboard
Telephone Operators at Manual Switchboard. Date may be later than 1920 - may be late '20s.
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Ladies of the Post Office seen here operating at an early telephone exchange when all calls were connected by hand at every intermediate exchange.
Women sorting Telegrams for Transmission
Ladies of the Post Office seen here sorting telegrams which had been handed in at various counters, and sending them to the appropriate transmission points.
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.
Holborn Manual Exchange 1904
Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)
London Trunk Exchange 1916
Women workers in telephone exchange during WWI (London Trunk Exchange)
Dish Aerial at Goonhilly
This dish is 90-feet across and is 'locked' onto a satellite 23,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. The surface of the dish is polished aluminium. The faint signals are reflected onto the centre of the tripod can be seen built onto the dish.
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Cable & Wireless Cable Chain Relay Comm. & Test Equipment
Porthcurno cable station (Cable & Wireless). View of cable chain relay equipment with commutation panels and test equipment. In the foreground, one 'wing' of the control console can be seen (bottom right) with FMVM panels in the centre rear. This…
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…
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…
Goonhilly Earth Station
General view of Goonhilly Earth Station taken from the road.