INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPHS
This web site is to remember Post Office and BT services and people who provided these services from the 1950's to the 1980's

 

LINKS AND CONTACTS

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

 

Webmaster To comment on this web site and provide additional material use this email address: webmaster@spencerweb.net

[Home] [A Tribute to Jeff] [Memory Lane] [Electra House Old & New] [Control Room] [MRC] [St Botolphs] [Brent ITLMS] [Fleet Building] [International Data Centre] [TRC] [COI] [Manchester Office] [News and Views] [EH Retired Colleagues Assoc.] [Links & Contacts] [Impressum]