Porthcurno

Porthcurno is a small settlement in the 9.7 km ² large municipality of St Levan on the southwest coast of England in the former Penwith District of Cornwall.

For the most part originated the settlement in the late 19th century, after the advent of electric overseas communication. After 1866, the first permanent Telegrafiekabel between Ireland and America went into operation, was looking for a place to land in England for more submarine cables. These seemed to prevail there gently sloping valley with a small sandy beach in the otherwise steep cliffs ideal. The bay is undisturbed by currents and ships. In 1870 the first two cable according to Carcavelos in Portugal and 40 miles off Land's End lying Brisk were laid, a former slave ship, which for two months served as a signal station for passing ships to the cable break. The operation of the Telegrafiestation was in 1872 by the newly established Eastern Telegraph Company Limited. (ETC) assumed that in 1928 the Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited. to Imperial and International Communications Ltd. merged, which was renamed in 1934 in Cable & Wireless. Nearby Poldhu in the first wireless Telegrafieverbindung was implemented across the Atlantic by Marconi.

A total of 14 submarine cables were between the two world wars of the 20th century in Porthcurno operated the England joined to India, and was the largest Seekabelstation the world. During the Second World War was begun in 1941 in the cliffs at Porthcurno an extensive underground bunker system, which should protect the installations against German air attacks. In Cable Office many apprentices were trained in telegraphy and related occupations over the years. Founded in 1950, Cable & Wireless, a College of Communications, which was operated until 1993. The last telegraph cables were taken out of service in 1970, exactly 100 years after the first cable, landed.

Today, the beach is used by several Seekabelbetreibern as landfall for fiber optic cable. Shortly after the closure of the College Porthcurno Telegraph Museum was set up in the tunnels. Just outside is the recorded since 1932 open-air Minack Theatre.

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