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The Cable Building Story
Hot Spot: Bay Roberts Harbour

 
Cable Ship Colonia in Bay Roberts Harbour in 1913 to lay the No.1 Penzance (1PZ) cable.
1 of 14 		Manager Dunham, Western Union Telegraph Company.
2 of 14 		Cable Company superintendent's house under construction.
3 of 14 		Site of new Cable Station.
4 of 14 		Rear view of new Cable Station.
5 of 14 		Rear view of Staff House.
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Cable Avenue with newly planted chestnut trees.
7 of 14 		Cable Avenue with sidewalks.
8 of 14 		Western Union officials surveying possible site of cable landing in Beachy Cove.
9 of 14 		Cable ships Telconia and Colonia.
10 of 14 		CS Colonia lays new 'Permalloy' cable from Sennen Cove, Cornwall to Bay Roberts and on to New York.
11 of 14 		Harbour scene before 1925 addition to Station.
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Pulling transatlantic cable across Water Street to Cable Station.
13 of 14 		Cable Ship Cyrus Field with cable buoys to shore.
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