A series of videos of historical interest.
A Short Walk around Temple
Some footage taken in Summer 2022, showing some sights that may bring back some memories of places around and about Electra House.
Sending a telegram, 1932
How the Teleprinter was used to send a telegram to Edinburgh in 1932.
Mountbatten's visit to Electra House, 1946
Cinema newsreel from 1946, showing the visit by Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife Edwina to Electra House to open the new London to Malta wirephoto service.
He also was to meet and personally thank operators and engineers who had served under him in the Far East during the war, one of whom was Jack ‘Ginger’ Pennington who featured in our August newsletter.
Lord Louis was met at the main entrance to EH by Sir Edward Wilshaw, the Chairman of Cable and Wireless, and escorted into the building. He sent a photograph by facsimile and also exchanged greetings via the Malta circuit with the governor of the island, before heading for the refectory to address the assembled staff and meet his war-time colleagues, members of Telcom units who had served especially in Burma.
The Cable & Wireless Great Circle Map
A short film describing the Cable & Wireless Great Circle Map, produced in 1945 by MacDonald Gill, brother of Eric Gill.
1920 Eastern Telco Suez Football team
1866 Great Eastern cable laying 1866 NF
1876 book cover
1902 Marcon Stn Glace Bay NF
1920s Telegraph Eng in Egypt
