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Staff & Probationers await C & W Cable Ship

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Title Staff & Probationers await C & W Cable Ship
Description Staff and probationers waiting on the cliffside for the arrival of a cable ship to lay a shore-end into the beach in 1876. Note: the new staff quarters in the background. The small wooden hut was then the cable terminal to be expanded to a bigger building in 1912.
Item URL https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/items/show/8396
Date 1876
Reference PEOP 6.008
Collection Angove Collection
Community archive Morrab Photo Archive
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Creator 1876

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