Connected Earth: Partner museums
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station - based at the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum - Home Page
Partnerships - National Museums of Scotland
The Marconi Centre at Poldhu Point on the Lizard Peninsula
| Sadly, Marconi's second
(but most famous) Cornish Wireless Station, from which he made the
historic transmission to St. John's in Newfoundland in 1901, no longer
exists, although the bases of the huts, in front of the former Poldhu
Cove Hotel, are preserved as of historic and Archaeological importance.
Gugliegmo Marconi chose this site - for his first transmissions to
Ireland and Newfoundland and for much later work - because of its
westerly location, its freedom from obstruction and for the convenience
of the Poldhu Hotel to house his workforce. The Poldhu Hotel may now be apartments and Marconi's buildings may have gone, except for foundations, but the combined efforts of the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club, the National Trust and the Marconi Company resulted in a permanent Marconi Centre Museum opening at Poldhu Point in 2004. Essentially, the Marconi Centre is home to the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club, an entirely appropriate use for so historic a site. In the field behind the centre you can see the foundations of Marconi's buildings and a levelled circle where aerial arrays stood. Nearby an earlier monument stands on the clifftop, commemorating Marconi's feat and bearing four commemorative plaques. Centre opening times are a bit odd and there is an uphill walk from a car park. |
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| From Mullion village follow Poldhu Cove signs, car park behind beach |
TELEGRAPH, SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT & RADIO MUSEUMS
AWA Selected Web Links - Museums
Subterranea Britannica: Sites: RUGBY RADIO STATION CALLSIGN GBR
Radar emitter database for Electronic Warfare Research
Defence Electronics History Society [DEHS] formerly Friends of CHiDE
ROYAL NAVAL AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
http://www.rneba.org.uk/ - The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association