Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Telephone Exchange
Anno WorkW
Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.
Angove
Morrab Library
c. 1900
General Post Office
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COMM 8.037
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Telephone Exchange
Anno WorkW
Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.
Angove
Morrab Library
c. 1900
Post Office
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COMM 8.036
Holborn Manual Exchange 1904
Telephone Exchange
Anno MWorkW
Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)
Angove
Morrab Library
1904
BRITISH TELECOM
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COMM 8.035
Holborn
London Trunk Exchange 1916
Telephone Exchange
Anno WorkW
Women workers in telephone exchange during WWI (London Trunk Exchange)
Angove
Morrab Library
1916
BRITISH TELECOM
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COMM 8.034
London
Dish Aerial at Goonhilly
Earth Station
Aerial
Anno
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.
Photo courtesy of British Telecom.
Angove
Morrab Library
1970
Morrab Library
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COMM 6.011
Goonhilly
Cable & Wireless Cable Chain Relay Comm. & Test Equipment
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 equipment ceased commercial use in 1970.
Angove
Morrab Library
1960
Morrab Library
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COMM 6.010
Porthcurno
Richard Angove at Cable & Wireless Cable Chain Countrol Console
Equipment
Anno MWork
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 remotely situated on either side of the instrument room.
Photo by courtesy of Cable & Wireless
Angove
Morrab Library
1960
Morrab Library
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COMM 6.009
Porthcurno
Porthcurno Cable Station
Equipment
MWork
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 operated when special attention is required.
Names on photo: L-R Richard Angove, Charles Harper, William Harvey and Fred Berryman
Angove
Morrab Library
1950
Morrab Library
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COMM 8.032
Porthcurno
Goonhilly Earth Station
Aerial
General view of Goonhilly Earth Station taken from the road.
Angove
Morrab Library
1975-01
Morrab Library
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COMM 8.031
Goonhilly
Shore-end of C & W Cable at Jesselton Borneo
Cable
MWork
During the second week in May, CS Recorder (3,349 tons) laid shore-ends at Jesselton of the Jesselton - Singapore section of the South East Asia Commonwealth telephone cable (SEACOM).
This picture shows: passing the Jesselton-Singapore shore end through the trench.
Angove
Morrab Library
1964-05
CABLE & WIRELESS LTD
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COMM 8.027
Borneo
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
C & W Detailed Diagram of Sea Plow
Sea Plow
A detailed diagram of the sea plow on 'Operation Sea Plow'.
Angove
Morrab Library
1968-04
Cable & Wireless
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COMM 8.021
C & W Exploded view of Lightweight Coaxial Cable
Cable
Anno
This diagram shows a sectioned specimen of deep-sea, light-weight coaxial cable of the kind likely to be used by Cable & Wireless Ltd. and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation in the Anglo-Canadian Telephone Cable in 1961.
The same type of cable is likely to be used in the extension of the Anglo-Canadian cable to form the round-the-world Anglo-Canadian Commonwealth Telephone Cable.
Angove
Morrab Library
1958-11
Cable & Wireless
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COMM 8.020
C&W Repeater entering the Water from C S Mercury
Cable
The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless Ltd, repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965. This photograph shows a repeater entering the water.
Angove
Morrab Library
1965
September or October
Morrab Library
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COMM 8.019
Final Splice of Hong Kong-Gwam C&W cable Mercury
Cable
Anno MWork
The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless, Ltd., repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965.
This photograph shows the final splice on board Mercury of the Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM. Pictured left to right are submarine cable technicians S. Matthews and A.E. Weekes.
Angove
Morrab Library
1965
(September or October)
Morrab Library
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COMM 8.018
C & W Stanley Angwin Surveying Cable Route
Equipment
Anno MWork
During April 1965, C.S. Stanley Angwin (2,500-ton gross) surveyed the route for the Tortola-Bermuda telephone cable which will provide the northern outlet for the 21-million W.I. dollar project in the Eastern Caribbean to improve inter-island and international telecommunications.
This photograph shows the camera station with Chief Engineer R. Wanless helping Assistant Deck Engine Driver C. St. Omer with the controls, while Cable Technician P.H. Pearce relays orders from the precision depth recorder.
Angove
Morrab Library
1965-04
Cable & Wireless
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COMM 8.017
C & W Survey Sled On Board C S Recorder
Equipment
This photograph shows survey operations on board the C.S. Recorder in the Mediterranean for the Mat I telephone cable project. The ship was on charter to Italcable for the work. On the foredeck, you can see the survey sled.
Angove
Morrab Library
1968
Morrab Library
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COMM 8.016
C & W R G Bell at 110v Generator
Equipment
Mr R.G. Bell at the 110v motor generator change-over panel. Pictured behind him is 110v mgs, with 10v mgs nearest the camera. On his left is a 110v distribution board. On his right are the main supply switches and battery switchgear. On the extreme right are 10v batteries and switching (illegible).
Angove
Morrab Library
1950
Morrab Library
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COMM 8.014
Porthcurno
K E Finney adjusting C & W Equipment
Equipment
Engineer Mr K.E. Finney adjusting the balance on Porgibthree (the No. 3 cable between Porthcurno and Gibraltar). The light reflected from the mirror on the fork coil records the duplex balance disturbance on the scale above.
Angove
Morrab Library
1950
Morrab Library
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COMM 8.013
Porthcurno
R Angove at C & W Test Bench on Maintenance
Equipment
MWork
Richard Angove at the test bench at Cable & Wireless doing regular maintenance work (routining) on the synchroniser. Drive relays are shown behind two clock controls at the top left of the photograph. The bottom of the clock can be seen between them.
Angove
Morrab Library
1950
Morrab Library
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COMM 8.012
Porthcurno