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Photo of engraving titled 'Landing the cable at Porthcurnew [sic] Bay'.

From Illustrated London News 25/6/1870

Engineers from the Plymouth area T.H.Q. Marine Branch landing a new shore end of a telephone cable at Porthcurno.

Photo of engraving titled 'Laying the Submarine Telegraph between Malta and Gibraltar, off the Isle of Pantellaria'.

From Illustrated London News 11/8/1870

Four Cable & Wireless men working on the beach.

Typical Morse sounder and single-current key as used by the GPO, railway companies, ship-shore and coastguard stations from the 1880s to 1930s. Note, the metal (usually sheet brass) "reflector" to localise the signal.

Spectators on the cliffs watching Cable & Wireless preparations for the cable landing on Porthcurno Beach. Bulldozers are pictured on the beach.

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…

A Cable & Wireless repeater stack on board ship.

Survey operations in the Mediterranean for Mat 1 telephone cable project. The ship was on charter to Italcable for the work.
The picture shows TV screen showing the sled full of weed on ocean bed.

PREVREF 1733 duplicate photo

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…

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.

Cable & Wireless telegraph form.

Photo of engraving of The Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Mediterranean Telegraph titled 'The Cliffs at Porthcurnew Bay, Cornwall'.

From Illustrated London News 25/6/1870. See PREVREF 1786 & 1743

General view of one of the many engineering training departments showing telegraph relay equipment for student training at the Cable & Wireless Engineering College in Porthcurno.

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)

C D of Penzance Conservation Area October 2005 located in the M neg box. 2005..

C Ds from Robin Lenman of Serena Wadham Archive Catalogue/Chronological lists/photos stored in the Archives Room. Morrab Library CopyNO NEGATIVE OR PHOTOGRAPH PRESENT