Telegraph Collection (page 12)

Kenya, Africa - General Post Office Nairobi Date: circa 1910s

Eastern Extension Telegraph Company - Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China - The Building of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company Date: circa 1910

Djibouti, East Africa - Avenue de la Republique. It is nice to compare the difference between the colonial French mode of transportation

Costa Rica - Port Limon (The Business Section) Date: circa 1910s

Jack Binns, wireless-telegraph operator
Jack Binns, the wireless-telegraph operator on the RMS Republic that sank after colliding with the SS Florida on 23rd January 1909, near Nantucket, Massachusetts

C. Q. D. signals that meant safety on the Republic
C.Q.D. signals that meant safety to two thousand souls: the means by which the sinking liner Republic sent three hundred miles for immediate help

Chile - Santiago - The Metropolitan Cathedral
Chile - Santiago. The Metropolitan Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana). Date: circa 1910s

Chile - Concepcion - The National Savings Bank
Chile - Concepcion - Caja Nacional de Ahorras (The National Savings Bank). Date: circa 1920

Laying transatlantic cable
Laying the Atlantic Cable : paying out the land end of the cable from the stern of the Niagara. Date: 1857

The Telegraph and Post Office - Bucharest, Romania. The card also features a profile portrait of King Carol I (1839-1914) with his (printed) signature beneath. Date: 1904

Indonesia - Jakarta - The Telephone Exchange. Jakarta was formerly known as Sunda Kelapa (3971527), Jayakarta (15271619), Batavia (16191942), and Djakarta (19421972)

Star Ferry Wharf, Hong Kong Date: circa 1910s

SIEMENS FACTORY / 1930 S
Siemens town factory unit in Berlin, founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens, inventor of the pointer telegraph, who opened the factory to produce it Date: mid 1930 s

Overland - Telegraph
The old pre-electric telegraph signals the abstract of the Indian Mail from Marseille to Paris, or vice versa. Date: 1844

USA / New Orleans / Street
Mule-drawn carts loaded high with cotton cross a street in New Orleans, wide enough to accommodate three horse-drawn tram tracks. Date: 1895

Telegraph Wires
The advance of civilisation - a bear investigates a telegraph pole amid the mountains of Sweden. Date: 1907

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: on board the Great Eastern, the crew prepares for the final attempt to grapple the lost telegraph cable which had snapped at the beginning of August

Schoolgirls parading, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A long line of local schoolgirls parade along Beaufort Street in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. The street is decorated with flags and bunting, perhaps to celebrate Empire Day (24 May)

Horse and trap, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A horse drawn trap with two passengers outside Crickhowell Castle wall, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales

Porth Mawr Gate, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
View of the town walls and gatehouse, the latter known as Porth Mawr (Porthmawr) Gate, on a snowy day in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales

Treffgarne, Nany Y Coy, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
View of the village of Treffgarne at Nant Y Coy, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, before the Great Western Railway line was built

Shimla, India - The Telegraph Office
The Telegraph Office at Shimla, originally called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India

Calcutta, India - Telegraph Office

Cherat - North West Frontier Province
Post and Telegraph Office at Cherat - a hill station in Nowshera District in the North West Frontier Province (now Pakistan)

Georgia - Tbilisi - Street Scene
Street scene in Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia

Georgia - Tbilisi - Hotel London
Hotel London, Tbilisi - the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia

Georgia - Batumi - The Telegraph Office
The Post Telegraph Office at Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum) a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 12 miles from the border with Turkey

Wireless telegraph transmitter with balloon-mounted aerial
A balloon carrying a telegraph antenna for a very early wirelss ( sans fils ) transmitter, France

German communications post WWI
German communications post on the Western Front during World War I

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, Cornwall. It marks the location of Marconis telegraph station during the pioneering days of

Postal Service Jubilee card - Prague, Czechoslovakia
A card celebrating the 40th anniversary (1887 - 1927) of the start of the Prague postal and telegraph service, by land and now by air too!

Bosnia - Sarajevo - Haggling
A Bosnian man haggling for a vest (waistcoat) in a Sarajevo Market, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Toronto, Canada - Yonge Street looking north. Crowds of onlookers are waiting for something, or lots of people are shopping at once

Workmen put telegraph cables, Syria
Workmen installing telegraph cables in Aleppo, Syria

100 Stone steps - Yokohama, Japan
Steep flight of 100 stone steps - Yokohama, Japan

Street at Jizosaka - Yokohama, Japan

Shimbashi Street, Tokyo, Japan

Chipperfield Common, Hertfordshire. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Wireless Operator School, WWII
Wireless Operator School, during World War II. Practical telegraphy, receiving and sending on long wire circuits. Preparing for the War Emergency Certificate which means completing the course in

Yokohama, Japan - Isesakicho-Dori Street. Note the complete lack of cars, even at this date

Reuter Telegraph Messenger Girl, London
A wonderful card depicting a female employee (Messenger) of the Reuter Telegraph Company

King William Street - Adelaide, Australia
A wonderful photographic postcard of a muffin man. The caption on the reverse reads thus:

Egypt - Suez - General view including Mosque
Egypt - Suez - General view including the Kafr-Zar Mosque Date: 1910

Roadside Picnic with Lanchester
Five chaps have a roadside picnic alongside their parked Lanchester (10 HP) car

Raising telegraph poles
A group of workers erect a telegraph pole with the help of a winch on the back of a truck

Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia - looking East."

Lower Southern Hospital, Gore Farm, Dartford, Kent
The Lower Southern Hospital at Gore Farm, near Dartford, Kent, during its First World War use as a military hospital. The hospital was set up in 1883 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for smallpox

Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
A view of Hall Barn in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, at the time of the photograph the home of Lord Burnham -- Sir Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baronet, owner of the Daily Telegraph

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