Chapel Lane, Saxtead
In Feb 1991, Eastern Electricity Plc applied for planning to start a very early deployment, across the tops of the nearby powerlines. The application was for the ” ERECTION OF REPEATER STATION TO HOUSE EQUIPMENT TO AMPLIFY TELECOMMUNICATION SIGNALS WITHIN NEW FIBRE OPTIC CABLE. ” This unit is a pre-fab, housing optical hardware, a diesel […]
Strachan & Henshaw Building, Foundry Lane, Bristol
On Friday 3rd of May 2019, just after 6.20 pm, an intense fire broke out in a workshop on the ground floor of the Strachan & Henshaw Building, Foundry Lane, Bristol. We have an interest in this building due to the sheer level of mobile and back-haul equipment on the roof. This is a major […]
Inside BT
We’ve all heard of BT, if you haven’t, British Telecommunications (BT for short) is a global communication operator, who inherited a nationwide copper landline network from the General Post Office back in the ’80’s, Providing a perfect network for telephone calls, however, when the first internet products were launched, the dial-up based network soon became congested. […]
Cable & Wireless, Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk
This cable landing station was built by BT in 1964 and used as a cable landing station between Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands. It also played a major role in BT’s radio network linking London to Europe. In the late 1980’s, Racal Telecom marketed a 40 Gbps pan-UK route via MCI Worldcom Cornwall, through Bristol, […]
BT Mevagissey
This location is a BT exchange for 2,200 properties, as well as a switching station for the TAT-14 cable. In 1999, BT submitted (Planning Permission) to make some changes to the layout and security of the building. 4 duct’s run between here and BT King’s Hill CLS in Bude. (Fujitsu Case Study) Chambers outside the Exchange It […]
BT Sennen Cove
This cable landing station is owned by BT and is likely to be the landing station for the Celtic cable and/or ESAT-1 cable. Just behind this station is the Global Crossing’s Whitesands CLS. Just behind this is BT’s Land’s End CLS & Satellite Earth Station and behind this is Reliance’s Skewjack. Owner: BT Built in: Unknown […]
BT Lands End
This cable landing station is owned by BT and is a major hub for communications. It currently also serves as a Satellite earth station and radio link to the Isle of Silly. When the RIOJA-1 cable was decommissioned, it was cut and re-laid in 2014 from Porthcurno to Porthcressa Beach, St Mary’s Isle of Silly to improve the […]
BT Kings Hill, Bude
With internet growth rising in the late 1990’s and a race to build transatlantic cables, a consortium funded project to connect the United States and the European Union (United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark) Like with TAT-3 & TAT-8, BT managed the UK-side operations such as the cable landing station and land-cables. Due […]
BT Widemouth
This is BT’s Widemouth exchange, it serves less than 800 properties so it’s size and unusual features give’s away its history and its role in UK’s telecommunications. Construction was begun with the General post office in 1962 and finished a year later, designed to withstand nuclear fallout. The above ground building serves as a local telephone […]