View from Porthcurno of Marconi Signal Station at Poldhu Transmitter on the Lizard Peninsula, from where Eastern Telegraph Co conducted industrial espionage.
General view of Poldhu Wireless Station. These 300-foot timber…
A general view of the main cable relay equipment room at Porthcurno Cable Station, looking west and showing the control consul, monitoring teleprinters, etc. in the foreground.
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.
Shore-end of a cable being floated in on drums at Cable & Wireless in Porthcurno. Ship in the distance and three men on the shore, two of whom are digging.
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…
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…
This photograph shows the complex nature of the aerial at Goonhilly Earth Station. In the centre of the picture can been seen one of the two large concrete counterbalancing weights. Each aerial can be moved in any direction on the horizontal plane…
Britains Ocean Telegraph Cables fan out into the Atlantic from the sandy beach of Porthcurno, a Cornish cove near Land's End. These cables, which are linked with the 155,000-mile network owned by Cable & Wireless Ltd., are operated from the company's…