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Kev D
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Govenment buildings in Anguish street « Posted: 09 July 2011 at 08:49 PM »
Looking at old maps of the beach village, there is a small triangular shaped building shown as 'Govenment Buildings' This is I believe is the cable station for the Lowestoft - Zandvoort Telegraph cable. The building was built about 1862, but I've been unable to locate any pictures of it. The records office, BT and Porthcorno telegraph museum have drawn a blank, anyone have a picture of it?
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Re: Govenment buildings in Anguish street « Reply #1 Posted: 09 July 2011 at 09:12 PM »
LT-Zandvoort was further south I believe. Records show cables going out from locations south of Lowestoft, as they still do today. LT-ZD was laid 1858 and recovered 1878. It may have been a repeater station but not known as a cable landing site on my record. I'll be interested to know what the triangular building was too. Most repeaters were rectangular, and these days generally are a mile or so inshore... with a few exceptions.
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Kev D
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Re: Govenment buildings in Anguish street « Reply #2 Posted: 09 July 2011 at 11:20 PM »
Interesting.... According to the information I have, the 1858 cable was the Dunwich to ZV cable.  The Lowestoft one was laid in 1862 There was also the 1882 Benacre - ZD cable, thats another one I can't trace the location for at all!

The reason I think this was the cable hut is that it was originally built for the Electric telegraph Co. so almost certainly not conforming to the standard Govenment pattern. The 1906 OS map shows it as Govenment Cable buildings.  By this time it would have contained the LT - Borkom cable. There are two other reasons for thinking this is the cable hut, firstly the cables went out from Ness point and secondly, When the building was replaced in 1923, the new building was close by at battery green. If the cables were south of Lowestoft then the cables would have had to double back over the river then back south to the CTO in London
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Re: Govenment buildings in Anguish street « Reply #3 Posted: 10 July 2011 at 10:55 AM »
Hello,was walking on pakefield beach not long ago,i noticed cables exposed near the shoreline, i think it was ulysses 2 cable.i believe most of these cables go from south of the town now. here is a map, you can zoom in to see. http://www.cablemap.info/
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