Use the links on this page to get to related web sites and the email addresses to contact us.
Light Straw was the colour of the racks used in PO & BT equipment practice, lots of stuff on this site including Mondial House www.lightstraw.co.uk/ate/main/mondial/ For the telegraph specific sections: www.lightstraw.co.uk/ate/tass/
Telecomms Heritage Group. Some excellent information and photographs about Electra House including the OTRU, MSU and in particular the Picture Room on the 5th Floor. http://www.thg.org.uk/
Submarine Telegraphy, Porthcurno Cornwall. Britain's empire spanning Victorian cable network had a social, political and commercial significance equal to that of the railways (and today's internet) yet nothing remains except miles of rotting cables at the bottom of the worlds oceans. Atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/Porthcurno/
Transatlantic Telegraph Cable. A really interesting site about the undersea cables and their history, this is a link recommended by Eric Pruitt who lives in Columbus Ohio. www.hmy.com/under-the-atlantic-ocean-history-of-the-transatlantic-telegraph-cable/
EH Retired Colleagues Association. Contact using email address webmaster@ehrca.co.uk Their web site is: www.ehrca.co.uk
Le Bureau Central Radiotélégraphique. This is a site for International Telegraphs in France and of course in the French language. Even if you don’t speak French there are lots of interesting photo’s on the site. http://pagesperso-orange.fr/anciensdubcrpttparis/index
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