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    Porthcurno (Cornish: Porthkornow, Porthcornow, meaning "pinnacle cove", see below) is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast...
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    PK Porthcurno is a museum located in the small coastal village of Porthcurno Cornwall, UK. Porthcurno was the point at which many submarine telegraph...
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    with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea. The theatre is at Porthcurno, 4 miles (6.4 km) from Land's End in Cornwall, England. The Minack's performing...
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    Rowena Cade (1893–1983) was the creator of the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK. Cade was born in Spondon near Derby on 2 August 1893. She was...
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    Cornwall is known for its beaches (Porthcurno Beach illustrated) and rugged coastline...
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    Francis Danby, a forgotten Victorian landscape artist. 10 "Plymouth to Porthcurno" 15 January 2016 (2016-01-15) In Plymouth, Portillo finds out about the...
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    journalist Griffin Barry while still married to Russell. She died at Porthcurno, Cornwall, on 31 May 1986, aged 92. Her ashes were scattered in the garden...
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    single telephone channel since the 1920s. The Porthcurno Cable Hut where cables were landed is now the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum and the historic archive...
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    In the Heights in 2017. This was followed in 2018 by roles in 13 at Porthcurno's Minack Theatre, the Theatre Royal Stratford East's Terror at The Sweetshop...
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    William Thomson's telegraphic syphon recorder, on display at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, in January 2019...
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    Buryan and Treen, to see the Logan Rock. There was a short stop to look at Porthcurno and the Eastern Telegraph Company followed by refreshments at the First...
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  • atlantic-cable.com. Retrieved 26 March 2015. Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. "Porthcurno Telegraph Museum". porthcurno.org.uk. Archived from the original on 20...
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    Russells divided their time between London and Cornwall, spending summers in Porthcurno. In the 1922 and 1923 general elections Russell stood as a Labour Party...
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    11-A/2013, page 552 34" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 20 July 2014. "Porthcurno Telegraph Station". PastScape. Historic England. Archived from the original...
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    Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. Telegraph at the Encyclopædia Britannica The Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine)—The...
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  • meant that place names were adopted into English with spellings such as 'Porthcurno' and 'Penzance'; they are written Porth Kernow and Pen Sans in the Standard...
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  • Long Island (at Shirley, New York), USA; Green Hill, Rhode Island, USA; Porthcurno, UK; Bude, UK; and Penmarch, France. The cable was constructed for US$740...
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    Cube Cinema, May 1, 1999 (Archipeligo-Disc/Little Waves/Movietone 2004) "Porthcurno live at the Knitting Factory, New York, 2000", Ltd Edition 7 inch Flexi...
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  • Edinburgh, Scotland, focuses especially on earth science Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno, Cornwall REME Museum of Technology, Arborfield Royal Institution:...
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    One of the editions of six of her 1964 bronze sculpture, Rock Form (Porthcurno), was removed from the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton in the spring of...
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  • Eastern Telegraph Company lapel badge 1914–1918. Displayed at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum....
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    of the building; a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, known as "Rock form, Porthcurno", was unveiled in the courtyard garden when the building opened. Following...
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    telecommunications. Eventually, no fewer than eleven cables radiated from Porthcurno Cable Station near Land's End and formed with their Commonwealth links...
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  • cliffs in the Padstow area, Porthcothan near Newquay, Holywell Bay, Porthcurno, Kynance Cove, Predannack Wollas on The Lizard and Park Head near Porthcothan...
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  • Isaac, Porteath, Porth, Porth Kea, Porth Navas, Porthallow, Porthcothan, Porthcurno, Porthgwarra, Porthgwidden, Porthhallow, Porthilly, Porthleven, Porthloo...
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    Receiver, Mark III, known as a 'Cat's Whisker receiver', and used on the ground to receive signals from aeroplanes. Displayed at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum....
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  • north: Charlestown, US-RI; Oxwich Bay, GB-WLS; south: Manasquan, US-NJ; Porthcurno, GB-ENG Vodafone (originally Cable & Wireless) AC-1 May 1998 14,301 km...
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    cable. Although intended to land at Falmouth, the final landing point was Porthcurno near Land's End. In 1900 Guglielmo Marconi stayed the Housel Bay Hotel...
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  • Callington Penhallow, Truro Tresco, The Scilly Isles Fistral Beach, Newquay Porthcurno Water Works Alverton Manor Hotel, Truro Go To Jail Arwenack Street, Falmouth...
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  • Penzance, Lamorna and Prussia Cove. National Trust beaches Holywell and Porthcurno provided "a dramatic setting" for a horse-race sequence and a beach party...
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