Telegraph Museum Porthcurno

Location: 

Telegraph Museum Porthcurno, Eastern House
Porthcurno
Penzance
TR19 6JX
United Kingdom
Description

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Museum/Gallery

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Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News: In Business - BBC, BAC and Cable and Wireless Archives, dated 8th February 1984; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News: The Birth of Radio and Songs and Music of World War Two', dated 1920, copy of a 78 rpm record, has dialogue about Marconi's first Transatlantic transmission on one side and on the other light dance music, also have an audio cassette which has songs and music from the Second World War, and a transcript of the record; items: 3 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: BBC Radio 4 programme titled 'A Wire Around the World' with presenter Paul Davies and Producer Martin Redfern, originally aired on the 28th November 2005, includes an interview with Mary Godwin (Director of the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum) and Bruce McCray (Director of the Telegraph Museum in Alice Springs), they discuss the history of telegraphy including the first uses of electricity, Morse code, and laying the cable to Australia; items: 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: BBC Radio program titled 'The Curse of the 'Great Eastern', written by Leo Knowles and part of a 'Shipwreck' series, also have a newspaper cutting referring to the radio program, dated 9th March 1978; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: The Education Superhighway produced by BBC Radio 4, undated; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: Talking about Morse Code' produced by BBC Radio 4, dated 1995; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: A tribute to Guglielmo Marconi and his achievements based on recordings from the BBC sound archives including the voice of Marconi himself, produced by Michael Barton, dated 1996; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: Interview with Lord Young on London News Radio, undated; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Documentary & News; Speeches & Events: The sound of living, a record about the Post Office telephone service, commentary spoken by Kenneth Horne, includes a message from the Queen to Her Majesty's Commonwealth Prime Ministers, the voices of the Prime Minister and the President of the USA relayed via satellite 'Early Bird', and an excerpt from the voice of the Marchese Marconi; items:. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with the Chairman of Cable and Wireless Sir Eric, dated 20th August 1984; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: John Carrington International Mobile (Director of Mobile and new Business, Cable and Wireless), dated 21st January 1992; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews with various Cable and Wireless Personnel; items: 21 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with W. H. Davies, dated 23rd November 1989; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Brian Pemberton, dated 12th December 1984; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history interviews by H. Barty-King with ex-Cable and Wireless employees (mostly engineers), includes interviews with R. Hobbah, H. A. Cox, H. Wilson, R. Mann, H. Montplaisir and A. Skeete (Cable and Wireless employees), dated 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews with various people in Hong Kong including Peter Forestal, H. L. Pierce and David Chan, dated 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with staff at Cable and Wireless in Vigo, dated 1978; items: 3 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews with Mr Harrison and Mr Cannon, dated 20th January 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews with John Bird and Dudley Weedon, dated 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Ron Hobbah, dated 18th April 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with John Smale, dated February 1990; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Peter A. McCunn and Douglas C. Buck, dated January 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews with A. Willett, F. Savoury, H. A. Cox, and Bob Thomae, dated 1978; items: 4 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Cable and Wireless Staff in Barbados, dated April 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Cable and Wireless staff in St Vincent, dated 1987; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Cable and Wireless staff in St Lucia, dated April 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Cable and Wireless staff in New York, dated November 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Harold Wilson, dated September 1978; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews given to Hugh Barty-King by various Cable and Wireless employees, dated 1978; items: 12 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews given by A. J. Kendrick, Arthur Grass, Brian Ascough, Captain Muckleston, C. E. Fox, W. Angove, Percy Sweet, V. Pullen, Lubbock, Marsh, D. Moore, C. Martin, Richard Denison-Pender, Harry Maddigan, and Peter Cousins, dated 1977; items: 13 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with Hugh and Ethel Biron, dated September 1990; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: St Levan at War Memories of Yesterday' sound recordings, part of St Levan Oral History Project; items:. Collection name: St Levan Local History Collection; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history recordings from people of the parish of St. Levan recorded in the 2000's; items: 34 MiniDisc, 68 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Interview with A. M. C. Bertuchi about bomb disposal, dated 18 November 2002; items: 1 MiniDisc. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Audio tape cassettes relating to J. W. Mackay, Arthur Tripp, and Captain A. M. Ross, dated 2nd July 1985; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Lord Young's Interview for Face to Face, dated December 1990; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Wendy Barnes interviews Brian Suart (Cable and Wireless General Manager in Hong Kong) for Radio Hong Kong, dated 14th May 1974; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Recorded interview with Roger Gaut, dated 15th March 1991; items: 3 Open Reel Tape. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Oral History: Recorded interview with Hak Ming Fung, dated 14th March 1991; items: 5 Open Reel Tape. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Corporate: Various Cable and Wireless related audio tapes, 'In Partnership' series, includes Cindy Pollard (Corporate Affairs Director), James Ross (Chief Executive), Professor Chris Baines (Environmental Adviser, Writer and Broadcaster), and Robert Swan (Special Envoy to UNESCO and Arctic Explorer), dated 1994 to 1999; items: 7 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Corporate: Cable and Wireless, Barbados, St Lucia, Montserrat, St Kitts, Anguilla, and Dominica; items:. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Corporate: Cable and Wireless Press and Analyst, undated; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Corporate: Cable and Wireless 'In Partnership' series, includes Edward Astle, Ian Strecker, Janies Fawn, and Professor David Ashton, dated 1995; items: 3 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Corporate: Conference call chaired by Graham Smith, dated 6th May 1998; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Corporate: Cable & Wireless' from Roundel, dated 1st August 1986; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Corporate: Multimedia implications and opportunities by Dawson Walker, undated; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Soundtrack: English soundtrack for related 16mm picture reel titled 'Voices in Orbit'; items:. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: : Scatter Sounding, Catalogue No.10, Copy 3; items: 1 Open Reel Tape. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: : Cable and Wireless Hell's Gate Steel Orchestra "Mr Manning", undated; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: : Audio tape titled 'Stephen Petit and Robert Lerwill'; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: : Open reel tape titled 'Trading Post No. 122', dated 1988; items: 1 Open Reel Tape. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Questions and answers at a Press presentation regarding Mercury Communication job losses, dated 5th December 1994; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Questions and answers at a press presentation, dated 19th November 1992; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: James Ross Hotline, dated 24th May 1995; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Questions and answers at a session with Dick Brown and the Analysts, dated 10th September 1996; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Cable and Wireless AGM, dated 1992; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Cable & Wireless Analyst Meeting, dated 21st November 1991; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Opening of Porthcurno Engineering School and Cableship Programme, dated 1935 to 1950; items:. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Cable and Wireless AGM, dated 5th July 1995; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Cable and Wireless AGM, dated 1994; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Questions and answers at the Analysts and Press presentations, dated 25th May 1995; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: Speeches & Events: In Conversation - I. O. M., dated 22nd December 1985; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music: A Festival of Cornish Choirs; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Cable & Wireless Archive; Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music: The Great Eastern Polka (also known as 'The Big Ship') - Played on an organ, have it both on audio cassette and CD, have the sounds of laughing and women talking in the background, includes a part of Royal Britannia at the end, not dated; items: 1 Compact Cassette, 1 Audio CD-R,
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Charlotte Todd

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