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Porthcurno Cove showing the old cable hut

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…

Copy of a Post card looking across Porthcurno Bay towards Porthcurno inlet showing "the black house," Initial connecting point for the cable . also the Grooves in the cliff which were used for the Cables by Cable and Wireless.

Porthcurno showing the old Cable hut

View from the seaward side showing the Cable and Wireless Telegraph Station building to the right, which is now houses the Telegraph Museum.
With a hand written message in ink to the reverse of the postcard to a recipient in Helston

Porthcurno Beach

Porthchapel Beach, near St. Levan

Overview, the correct name is Porth Nanven

Overview

Porth Hellick Down Entrace Grave.

View across the beach area to the rock formation named Castle Treen Dinas.
Of interest to the reverse of the card is a hand ink stamped logo for Lands End

Same shoot as 163,164

Water Pumps used in Cornwall until 1950 when Electric Pumps intro- duced

Prospecting Plant of Carnon Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd at Sampson Shaft of Gwennap United Mines a subsidiary of RTZ. Carnon are Local Operators of Wheal Jane & Mount Wellington Mines

Prospecting Plant of Carnon Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd at Sampson Shaft of Gwennap United Mines a subsidiary of RTZ. Carnon are Local Operators of Wheal Jane & Mount Wellington Mines

Sampsons Shaft Gwennap United subsidiary of RTZ. Carnon operated Wheal Jane and Mount Wellington