There is a very valid reason as to why part two has not been made. You will soon understand. The role of mass surveillance is critically vital to an ongoing situation and I would not want to jeopardise anything, so I will wait until I am sure my video would cause no harm.
Personally I couldn't care a less about what TV networks choose to show me, when there's good stuff like this on the internet. Time to stop thinking in TV centric terms :)
As everyone else has said this documentary is an example of how a meaningful documentary should be made. Firstly, many thanks for all the effort and time you spent making this, it is very much appreciated. It is professional, informative and well presented. I very much look forward to a part 2 and any other documentaries you produce.
Absolutely superb documentary, I live in Cornwall and found this fascinating, I have passed these buildings day after day without realising what they were!
There's no such thing as a perfect TH-cam vi... Seriously, as a very proud Kernow native and ultra-nerd, this is absolutely one of the greatest things I have ever watched! So glad I stumbled upon your channel! Keep up the ace work 🤘
Interesting video and a great amount of effort shows. A couple of details to fill a gap or two, the unmanned building across from Skewjack with the cable line towards it is a Chain Home radar transmitter bunker and was decommissioned in the late 1950s and has been used for agricultural purposes and is being converted into a dwelling. The bunker that you describe as a nuclear bunker next to the satellite BT station next to Skewjack is one of the original substation bunkers for the chain home site (there is another at Trebehor) and was last used for the supply to Lands End radio, it was decommissioned after that and the BT site is fed from a transformer on a pole near the CH substation. There are pictures about of the CH site taken during WW2, the receiver bunkers being either side of the BT site and transmitters south of them, the second transmitter bunker is used as an artists studio. Hope that plugs some gaps.
Absolutely fascinating video - well researched, well presented and very interesting! I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. I appreciated the attention to detail and was impressed with your editing. Far better than some of the rubbish on TV in my opinion. Thank you to you and the team for all your efforts. I’d love to see the next part, but understand why it may not happen.
Fantastic film Mark. I worked on the AC2 landing station in Bude when it was being built and was involved in the commissioning of the fibres and DWDM's but didn't have a clue what it was going to be used for back then apart from a link to the US.... Very well researched documentary and really loved it. Cheers
An extremely thorough and comprehensive piece of work. Well done Mark, I appreciate the time, effort, energy and stress which this film must have taken to prepare. You've presented all the facts in a very attractive way, woven as part of a methodical geographic narrative. I take my hat off to you!
Actually I was looking for any good documentary on Cornwall as my next holiday destination. Ended up watching this interesting, intriguing and so well made coverage. Thanks!
PENZANCE CORNWALL IS THE MOST HAUNTED PLACE AROUND, I LUCKY TO LIVE THERE. LOTS OF HISTORY AND ST MARYS CHURCH GRAVE YARD, CHAPEL STREET IN PENZANCE IS VERY MUCH HAUNTED. STAY LONG ENOUTH FOR SURE U WILL SEE SOMETHING... I PROMISE U THAT! SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR U GUYS TO THINK ABOUT. YOU TUBE IT. GOD BLESS U
The landing stations are much like the format & presentation of your documentary, a small unassuming structure which carries a huge amount of data away from prying eyes. Four years to make - well done.
My late father was involved in the "Goonhilly Project" in about 1960, later on I went to the college at C&W Telecommunications College. This is a superb video, absolutely fascinating.
Probably one of the greatest videos on TH-cam, ever. I know not many are into this sort of thing, but why doesn't this sort of content get spots on things like Netflix? This is just so masterfully done
Really enjoyed this , was at Goonhilly back in 2000 , when it was fully operational . It wont get decommed. There are way too many entries into the UK via Goonhilly . look forward to your part two. Keep the good work up . And the video was well presented.
I have never really thought about whats under a man hole cover ,except telephone wires and sewers ,but after watching this awesome film i was fascinated,i had no idea at all all that was under our feet ,and i love the clear way you explained it all with drone footage and high lighted cables your awesome what a fantastic brain you must have to edit all this data and know all this information so well you can explain it to somebody like me , thank so much .i feel like ive really learnt something ,i will look at man holes in a totally different way from now on
Ah, submarine cables.... fond memories for me, I was involved in the laying and engineering of ANZCAN submarine cable (analog) from Australia to Norfolk Island to Fiji to Hawaii and ending in Vancouver Canada I was also involved with the early digital cables from Exeter to Cornwall, I was working for Standard Telephones an Cables STC back in the 80's on both the above jobs
My dad worked for cable and wireless Chelmsford as a submarine and cable engineer I remember going too visit him on the ship in Vancouver Canada probably mid to late 90s
@@fatsam2564 I too worked for C+W, Chelmsford was involved I recall, but for C+W I was mainly in Nigeria on the Shell contract... I'm trying to remember the dates I was on that Pacific contract, it was definitely mid 80's, it was called ANZCAN
Amazing research and camera work. What dedication. Only slight negative is that sometimes the background sound track was a bit intrusive. Overall a fantastic, enlightening piece of work. Thank you. I really look forward to Part 2
Just extraordinary research and top notch production. Really 4 years in the making?! Well it shows. I don't have a Netflix account, Sky subscription for a reason. TH-cam is still the go to place for the best docs. I hope it remains ad free for the foreseeable. This is the 3rd time I've watched this and I've learned even more as there's so much info. Great work.
Great info! I used to live in the house attached to the Skewjack station, before it was there & the remains of the Skewjack surfers holiday park chalets were still there. We used to wonder what went on in the Fujitsu building (now BT Lands end) just up the road
This is a great video, working for openreach and living local I have spent a lot of time in the widemouth bay telephone exchange and it has encouraged me to find out more, there are various collections of documents that remain in widemouth regarding the old transatlantic cables quite fascinating.
@@colinstewart1432 the site is now only a local TE the remaining items aren’t sensitive and much of the interesting stuff has been taken away now, just a shame that some of the items can’t be brought out and put into museums for everyone to see…..
Thanks for the film Mark, I really enjoyed this. I've been a bit of a spotter of these places for some years but I've never seen such a careful explanation as yours.
Thanks Mark and co. Absolutely wonderful documentary! Don't think that I have ever watched a TH-cam video twice back to back before. Excellent research. Strangely, I am less concerned about GCHQ snooping than by being taken down by a world markets crash caused by the insanely linked computer trading centres. My life hardly interests me so GCHQ are welcome to pour over it all they like!
Robin , when you find out shortly what GCHQ did your faith in them will shattered, they colluded with the Obama administration and provided surveillance on the Trump campaign in the 2016 election race in an attempt to throw the result in favour of Hilary Clinton. No matter what swing you place on this fact, these systems have been abused and the spirit of the law has been circumvented for political gain. We are so lucky the good guys have forced this issue into the public spotlight and GCHQ needs to apologise to all American voters and the UK public it serves for its criminal and Orwellian behaviour.
I don't doubt it for a moment Mark! I watched aghast as my wife was subtly manipulated on Facebook for the last election in the uk and even the last American election. We are seeing the end game of Western Democracy I fear as it becomes increasingly unfit for purpose.
I bet your children love their holidays with you! I lived, as did my father, in Cornwall for many years and was almost totally unaware of the level of communication networks in the county . I lived in St Mawgan, just below the airport which, for many years, was the home of RAF St Mawgan . The activity of Nimrod aircraft was constant, and provided great amusement for anyone with an interest in military aircraft movements.
Lets not mention the cables that come down the road to Watergate Bay and Mawgan Porth that may or may not be the landing point for the Sonar systems in the Atlantic!
Greetings from Nevada, U.S.A. - Thank You Mark, it was very interesting and informative. Also, Thanks for the wonderful tour through the Cornwall countryside, - someplace I'll never get to see in person.
Mark, your documentatory is highly impressive and immaculately researched, you really did your homework, well done. Would love to see you turn your skills to finding nuclear bunkers!
Eerie................................Great presentation, did not know that Cornwall had so many Secret Squirrel's.........................Everytime I buy Rodda's Clotted Cream I will be reminded of this!
Brilliantly done investigation and editing. This should be how the big networks do information programmes and not the mind numbing garbage they dish out now. As a side not I used to live just out side Bude in a little village called Bush to wit there was a earth bank abuting our cottage which, so I was informed by an old BT employee, had the transatlantic cable buried in it. Hence why we could run our garage strip light, though flickeringly, off its radiated power bleed.
Excellent piece of journalism!! Produced by three people, wow, bbc would need a shed load to make this. Well done the team, just be careful, your card must be marked for sure.....
Really enjoyed this video, for both historical and career information. I’m a retired electrical engineer that worked for the Air Force Satellite Control Network which had documentation illustrating locations of transAtlantic UK landing points. I would like to visit a museum of this sort to see construction of these cables and their capacities.
There must be quite a bit of additional layers of security here, that we do not see. I may work later this year, near Goonhilly. I am not privy to any classified information but this very well done documentary, with images, maps, routes, photos, etc of all the various cable landings and routes, makes me uneasy that it is public, and not restricted distribution. Wow...just... Wow.
Fairly staggering documentary. I’m viewing it from New Zealand but my grandmother was Cornish and I’ve been to Cornwall many times, and walked along some of those narrow lanes myself, which have half the worlds data underneath them! Well done, very thorough research. No wonder the police wanted to talk to you!
underground stuff really interests me. tunnels bunkers, old mine shafts, cold war relics, and now cable ducts and routes! brilliant video, been wanting to visit cornwall/devon for a while, will probably go in the summer
Fascinating to learn how much is going on in these remoter parts of Kernow. I knew it was important but this is remarkable. Skewjack was a wartime RAF camp but I don't know whether it was telecomms. Then the huts became a tourist site, latterly Skewjack Surf Village. Think how much longer the film would have been if the pc brigade had forced you to talk about "personnel access facilities"!! Roll on Part 2 - hope you're not in gaol!
Very well done very interesting & very informative Love the milk man 30 people use to leave in a bus then 30 people use to arrive by bus at a bungalow wow just wow 🧐😀
Awesome film!! Thank you for taking the time and effort in the making of it. I trail run and explore, particularly down on the Lizard, I'm intrigued by the story of the coach arriving in Ponsongath! I'm defo having a detailed mooch around down there next week.
As a local this has been a brilliantly informative video, thankyou. I remember working at st morgan when they put the cables in at Watergate bay. spooky stuff.
Throughout the 1860s and 1870s, British cable expanded eastward, into the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. An 1863 cable to Bombay (now Mumbai), India, provided a crucial link to Saudi Arabia. In 1870, Bombay was linked to London via submarine cable in a combined operation by four cable companies, at the behest of the British Government. In 1872, these four companies were combined to form the mammoth globe-spanning Eastern Telegraph Company, owned by John Pender. A spin-off from Eastern Telegraph Company was a second sister company, the Eastern Extension, China and Australasia Telegraph Company, commonly known simply as "the Extension". In 1872, Australia was linked by cable to Bombay via Singapore and China and in 1876, the cable linked the British Empire from London to New Zealand.
Brilliant production. I presume that every Internet user pays through their monthly bill the installation and maintenance costs of these monitoring systems. This isn't the first time the consumer has been ripped off without knowing. During the 1950's the Rotor air defence radar system was cable hard wired between the dozens of radar stations and central control centres by Post Office telephones, the Government agency which became BT. Private telephones were very expensive back then and there were long waiting lists. It was estimated that up to 50% of consumer telephone bills went to defence costs. Nothing changes except I suspect the ability to monitor millions of transmissions at once in the present digital world.
Kudos to you, sir! A fascinating discourse and clear demonstration of your balls in poking your nose around in a way that would attract unwanted attention.
Brilliant Mark, I knew Skewjack was something "special" with all the cctv on it. I know and recognise many of the locations "down west" so it seems you've answered a few questions out of curiosity! Interesting on the "security" at a few locations. Once again, brilliant video, you really done your research 👍
I've accidentally stumbled across this MASTERPIECE!!!!..When I've been down that way on me jollies, I've often wondered what these buildings are used for...Thanks so much for this brilliant video...I've learnt a ton of stuff today...Any idea of when Part 2 is out?
Cracking video Mark, same as a previous comment, I am unsure on how it found its way onto my computer but I am glad it did. Have now subscribed. Thank you.
There is a very valid reason as to why part two has not been made. You will soon understand. The role of mass surveillance is critically vital to an ongoing situation and I would not want to jeopardise anything, so I will wait until I am sure my video would cause no harm.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Looking forward to it.
This video's is several years old though...
LOOKING FORWARD TO PART TWO
Waiting patiently for part 2 🙏🏾
Why don't they make documentaries like this for television any more? This is the most intelligent and original work I have seen in a very long time.
Don't get around much anymore?
tv is for entertainment not education?
Paul Mulvihill because TV isn't there to educate you it's there to endoctronate you
james hatton couldn't have put it better!
Personally I couldn't care a less about what TV networks choose to show me, when there's good stuff like this on the internet. Time to stop thinking in TV centric terms :)
I don’t often comment on videos, but bloody hell was this fascinating! Thank you for making it.
@@TONE11111 Thanks for sharing!! I'll watch that one later
Brilliant, top-notch documentary. If there's any such thing as an award for independent documentary makers, you should most definitely get one!!
7 years ago and i still watch this video all the time
I'm always recommending it to IT network technicians who want to know more about how the internet works...
As everyone else has said this documentary is an example of how a meaningful documentary should be made. Firstly, many thanks for all the effort and time you spent making this, it is very much appreciated. It is professional, informative and well presented. I very much look forward to a part 2 and any other documentaries you produce.
I've probably watched this 5 times or more, it is one of my favourite videos on TH-cam thank you
Im glad you like it! You wont believe what is going on behind the scenes! When the world changes remember this video!
Absolutely superb documentary, I live in Cornwall and found this fascinating, I have passed these buildings day after day without realising what they were!
There's no such thing as a perfect TH-cam vi...
Seriously, as a very proud Kernow native and ultra-nerd, this is absolutely one of the greatest things I have ever watched! So glad I stumbled upon your channel! Keep up the ace work 🤘
Interesting video and a great amount of effort shows. A couple of details to fill a gap or two, the unmanned building across from Skewjack with the cable line towards it is a Chain Home radar transmitter bunker and was decommissioned in the late 1950s and has been used for agricultural purposes and is being converted into a dwelling. The bunker that you describe as a nuclear bunker next to the satellite BT station next to Skewjack is one of the original substation bunkers for the chain home site (there is another at Trebehor) and was last used for the supply to Lands End radio, it was decommissioned after that and the BT site is fed from a transformer on a pole near the CH substation. There are pictures about of the CH site taken during WW2, the receiver bunkers being either side of the BT site and transmitters south of them, the second transmitter bunker is used as an artists studio. Hope that plugs some gaps.
Absolutely fascinating video - well researched, well presented and very interesting! I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. I appreciated the attention to detail and was impressed with your editing. Far better than some of the rubbish on TV in my opinion. Thank you to you and the team for all your efforts. I’d love to see the next part, but understand why it may not happen.
Fantastic film Mark. I worked on the AC2 landing station in Bude when it was being built and was involved in the commissioning of the fibres and DWDM's but didn't have a clue what it was going to be used for back then apart from a link to the US.... Very well researched documentary and really loved it. Cheers
Excellent work Mark. Secret infrastructure is mostly hidden in plain sight.
this is the first yt I have ever seen without a single advertisement
An extremely thorough and comprehensive piece of work. Well done Mark, I appreciate the time, effort, energy and stress which this film must have taken to prepare. You've presented all the facts in a very attractive way, woven as part of a methodical geographic narrative. I take my hat off to you!
why don't you take off your trousers instead?
An amazing video. I honeymooned in Cornwall 40 years ago. I never knew about this stuff.
Fantastic bit of work here, lots of effort and homework done.
I'll be out scoping the roads of Western Australia. Cheers mates
Do hope you do more of these. Find it completely interesting. 🙌 love your work.
Absolutely first class documentary on the cables in cornwall.
Awesome! As a tels engineer working in the electrical industry it still fascinates me just how much we can squeeze down a thin glass fibre.
Actually I was looking for any good documentary on Cornwall as my next holiday destination. Ended up watching this interesting, intriguing and so well made coverage. Thanks!
PENZANCE CORNWALL IS THE MOST HAUNTED PLACE AROUND, I LUCKY TO LIVE THERE. LOTS OF HISTORY AND ST MARYS CHURCH GRAVE YARD, CHAPEL STREET IN PENZANCE IS VERY MUCH HAUNTED. STAY LONG ENOUTH FOR SURE U WILL SEE SOMETHING... I PROMISE U THAT! SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR U GUYS TO THINK ABOUT. YOU TUBE IT. GOD BLESS U
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The landing stations are much like the format & presentation of your documentary, a small unassuming structure which carries a huge amount of data away from prying eyes. Four years to make - well done.
My late father was involved in the "Goonhilly Project" in about 1960, later on I went to the college at C&W Telecommunications College. This is a superb video, absolutely fascinating.
Probably one of the greatest videos on TH-cam, ever. I know not many are into this sort of thing, but why doesn't this sort of content get spots on things like Netflix? This is just so masterfully done
Really enjoyed this , was at Goonhilly back in 2000 , when it was fully operational . It wont get decommed. There are way too many entries into the UK via Goonhilly . look forward to your part two. Keep the good work up . And the video was well presented.
I have never really thought about whats under a man hole cover ,except telephone wires and sewers ,but after watching this awesome film i was fascinated,i had no idea at all all that was under our feet ,and i love the clear way you explained it all with drone footage and high lighted cables your awesome what a fantastic brain you must have to edit all this data and know all this information so well you can explain it to somebody like me , thank so much .i feel like ive really learnt something ,i will look at man holes in a totally different way from now on
Ah, submarine cables.... fond memories for me, I was involved in the laying and engineering of ANZCAN submarine cable (analog) from Australia to Norfolk Island to Fiji to Hawaii and ending in Vancouver Canada
I was also involved with the early digital cables from Exeter to Cornwall, I was working for Standard Telephones an Cables STC back in the 80's on both the above jobs
My dad worked for cable and wireless Chelmsford as a submarine and cable engineer I remember going too visit him on the ship in Vancouver Canada probably mid to late 90s
@@fatsam2564 I too worked for C+W, Chelmsford was involved I recall, but for C+W I was mainly in Nigeria on the Shell contract...
I'm trying to remember the dates I was on that Pacific contract, it was definitely mid 80's, it was called ANZCAN
This is one of the best OSINT work that i've ever came across. Thanks a lot mate!
Fascinating, thank you :) I don't watch much TV anymore, with content like this, there's no need to ! :)
just what I just replied above;since I got you tube ,I didn't bother with the tv programmes any more.
PLEASE do lots more of this stuff. What a fantastic watch.
This is a fantastic documentary. Not overly dramatic but thorough and interesting!
What an excellent documentary! Please please give us an idea when part 2 will be uploaded :)
Brilliant. Excellent job Mark - cant wait for more.
Blimey, is there any video on TH-cam that took so much effort to research? This is phenomenal Mark!
Brilliant video. Watched a few times now. Fasinating. Can't wait for Part 2
What an amazingly well-researched and informative video. Thanks for it!
Amazing research and camera work. What dedication. Only slight negative is that sometimes the background sound track was a bit intrusive. Overall a fantastic, enlightening piece of work. Thank you. I really look forward to Part 2
Just extraordinary research and top notch production. Really 4 years in the making?! Well it shows. I don't have a Netflix account, Sky subscription for a reason. TH-cam is still the go to place for the best docs. I hope it remains ad free for the foreseeable. This is the 3rd time I've watched this and I've learned even more as there's so much info. Great work.
Loving your work! Cant wait for part 2.
Is there a part two?
Great info!
I used to live in the house attached to the Skewjack station, before it was there & the remains of the Skewjack surfers holiday park chalets were still there.
We used to wonder what went on in the Fujitsu building (now BT Lands end) just up the road
Interesting and very well put together. Looking forward to Part 2 now!
This is a great video, working for openreach and living local I have spent a lot of time in the widemouth bay telephone exchange and it has encouraged me to find out more, there are various collections of documents that remain in widemouth regarding the old transatlantic cables quite fascinating.
Because of your job, it's likely you'll be monitored in some way.
@@colinstewart1432 the site is now only a local TE the remaining items aren’t sensitive and much of the interesting stuff has been taken away now, just a shame that some of the items can’t be brought out and put into museums for everyone to see…..
@@nathanmears7953 thanks for that 👍
Absolutely excellent, +Mark Thomas Better than most content on TV better than most documentaries made by large pro teams. Full credit
Brilliant Mark so pleased I came across your. Channel.
Wow im blown away by the work you have done here. Hats off!
Wow this is amazing thanks for your hard work folk :)
Thanks for the film Mark, I really enjoyed this. I've been a bit of a spotter of these places for some years but I've never seen such a careful explanation as yours.
Thanks Mark and co. Absolutely wonderful documentary! Don't think that I have ever watched a TH-cam video twice back to back before. Excellent research.
Strangely, I am less concerned about GCHQ snooping than by being taken down by a world markets crash caused by the insanely linked computer trading centres. My life hardly interests me so GCHQ are welcome to pour over it all they like!
Robin , when you find out shortly what GCHQ did your faith in them will shattered, they colluded with the Obama administration and provided surveillance on the Trump campaign in the 2016 election race in an attempt to throw the result in favour of Hilary Clinton.
No matter what swing you place on this fact, these systems have been abused and the spirit of the law has been circumvented for political gain. We are so lucky the good guys have forced this issue into the public spotlight and GCHQ needs to apologise to all American voters and the UK public it serves for its criminal and Orwellian behaviour.
I don't doubt it for a moment Mark! I watched aghast as my wife was subtly manipulated on Facebook for the last election in the uk and even the last American election. We are seeing the end game of Western Democracy I fear as it becomes increasingly unfit for purpose.
I bet your children love their holidays with you! I lived, as did my father, in Cornwall for many years and was almost totally unaware of the level of communication networks in the county .
I lived in St Mawgan, just below the airport which, for many years, was the home of RAF St Mawgan . The activity of Nimrod aircraft was constant, and provided great amusement for anyone with an interest in military aircraft movements.
Lets not mention the cables that come down the road to Watergate Bay and Mawgan Porth that may or may not be the landing point for the Sonar systems in the Atlantic!
Really nicely edited video. So was it you.who left or friend with this Intel?
Greetings from Nevada, U.S.A. - Thank You Mark, it was very interesting and informative. Also, Thanks for the wonderful tour through the Cornwall countryside, - someplace I'll never get to see in person.
I have lived in Cornwall for over 40yrs and spent many a beautiful day on Porthcurno. My brother works at Goonhilly. Enjoyed the video.
Mark, your documentatory is highly impressive and immaculately researched, you really did your homework, well done. Would love to see you turn your skills to finding nuclear bunkers!
Eerie................................Great presentation, did not know that Cornwall had so many Secret Squirrel's.........................Everytime I buy Rodda's Clotted Cream I will be reminded of this!
Wow, what a fascinating film. Thanks so much for uploading and all the work you must have put in. So many questions!
Brilliantly done investigation and editing. This should be how the big networks do information programmes and not the mind numbing garbage they dish out now. As a side not I used to live just out side Bude in a little village called Bush to wit there was a earth bank abuting our cottage which, so I was informed by an old BT employee, had the transatlantic cable buried in it. Hence why we could run our garage strip light, though flickeringly, off its radiated power bleed.
Excellent piece of journalism!! Produced by three people, wow, bbc would need a shed load to make this. Well done the team, just be careful, your card must be marked for sure.....
Really enjoyed this video, for both historical and career information. I’m a retired electrical engineer that worked for the Air Force Satellite Control Network which had documentation illustrating locations of transAtlantic UK landing points. I would like to visit a museum of this sort to see construction of these cables and their capacities.
Very interesting! There are a lot of dark fibre landing points I would like to know the locations of!
Wish you would make part two…. This was so interesting.
There must be quite a bit of additional layers of security here, that we do not see. I may work later this year, near Goonhilly. I am not privy to any classified information but this very well done documentary, with images, maps, routes, photos, etc of all the various cable landings and routes, makes me uneasy that it is public, and not restricted distribution. Wow...just... Wow.
Patrick Barthelow
hegemony ring a bell
Why do you call yourself, patrick?
disclosure laws, right
Mate this is some fantastic investigation. How have I not come across this video before? Curse the YT algorithm!
Fairly staggering documentary. I’m viewing it from New Zealand but my grandmother was Cornish and I’ve been to Cornwall many times, and walked along some of those narrow lanes myself, which have half the worlds data underneath them! Well done, very thorough research. No wonder the police wanted to talk to you!
Awesome video. The footage/locations filmed in the Spring/Summer really give it an ASMR quality for me.
absolutely fascinating watch, well done Mark
that ""Bude Furniture"" container looks legit, just like the 'Flowers By Irene' van in The Simpsons.
Or Duke City Flowers...
Ace Tomato Co. 🍅
underground stuff really interests me. tunnels bunkers, old mine shafts, cold war relics, and now cable ducts and routes! brilliant video, been wanting to visit cornwall/devon for a while, will probably go in the summer
Wait until you discover lost and culverted rivers...you will lose your shit!
Have u looked into DUMBS?? 😅
Fascinating to learn how much is going on in these remoter parts of Kernow. I knew it was important but this is remarkable. Skewjack was a wartime RAF camp but I don't know whether it was telecomms. Then the huts became a tourist site, latterly Skewjack Surf Village. Think how much longer the film would have been if the pc brigade had forced you to talk about "personnel access facilities"!! Roll on Part 2 - hope you're not in gaol!
Very interesting,, a fasinating video. I was a jointer for Standard Telephones Ltd, on TAT 2 and 3, and many others berfore fibre cables.
Very well done very interesting & very informative
Love the milk man 30 people use to leave in a bus then 30 people use to arrive by bus at a bungalow wow just wow 🧐😀
Awesome film!! Thank you for taking the time and effort in the making of it. I trail run and explore, particularly down on the Lizard, I'm intrigued by the story of the coach arriving in Ponsongath! I'm defo having a detailed mooch around down there next week.
wow! such a detailed amount of information and research.
As a local this has been a brilliantly informative video, thankyou. I remember working at st morgan when they put the cables in at Watergate bay. spooky stuff.
Glad I found this - answered a lot of questions!
Great Video - Can't wait for part 2.
Many thanks from Cornwall resident, fascinating.
Incredible video. It's a shame that there won't be any more of these from this publisher. Does anyone know what the background music is?
Very well made this deserves more publicity!
Awesome video, very informative. What’s the name of the music played throughout please?
Most excellent...absolutely loaded with interesting and relevent information....much appreciate your research and attention to detail.
Excellent job! I’m having a nerdgasm!
Throughout the 1860s and 1870s, British cable expanded eastward, into the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. An 1863 cable to Bombay (now Mumbai), India, provided a crucial link to Saudi Arabia. In 1870, Bombay was linked to London via submarine cable in a combined operation by four cable companies, at the behest of the British Government. In 1872, these four companies were combined to form the mammoth globe-spanning Eastern Telegraph Company, owned by John Pender. A spin-off from Eastern Telegraph Company was a second sister company, the Eastern Extension, China and Australasia Telegraph Company, commonly known simply as "the Extension". In 1872, Australia was linked by cable to Bombay via Singapore and China and in 1876, the cable linked the British Empire from London to New Zealand.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Part 2 ???
Excellent piece of work. Really well put together. Thank you.
Looking forward to "Part Two"(?!)
Fascinating ! I can't wait for part 2 !
Brilliant production. I presume that every Internet user pays through their monthly bill the installation and maintenance costs of these monitoring systems. This isn't the first time the consumer has been ripped off without knowing. During the 1950's the Rotor air defence radar system was cable hard wired between the dozens of radar stations and central control centres by Post Office telephones, the Government agency which became BT. Private telephones were very expensive back then and there were long waiting lists. It was estimated that up to 50% of consumer telephone bills went to defence costs. Nothing changes except I suspect the ability to monitor millions of transmissions at once in the present digital world.
excellent research.
Wow. That was really interesting. I did enjoy watching that. Thankyou
WOW, Thanks Mark for all the hard work making this.
Kudos to you, sir! A fascinating discourse and clear demonstration of your balls in poking your nose around in a way that would attract unwanted attention.
Brilliant Mark, I knew Skewjack was something "special" with all the cctv on it. I know and recognise many of the locations "down west" so it seems you've answered a few questions out of curiosity! Interesting on the "security" at a few locations. Once again, brilliant video, you really done your research 👍
I've accidentally stumbled across this MASTERPIECE!!!!..When I've been down that way on me jollies, I've often wondered what these buildings are used for...Thanks so much for this brilliant video...I've learnt a ton of stuff today...Any idea of when Part 2 is out?
I found this strangely fascinating, definitely an eye opener as I've seen some of these buildings before
@mark thomas How you getting on with part 2?
This video gives me information, that makes me understand this part of my daily day life better. Thank's Mark.
This is superb - great research and really well compiled.
Fantastic piece of work Mark, thouroughly enjoyed this informative documentary. Very well researched. Where is part 2 please?...
This doco was very interesting and very well presented.
Amazing work, well done!
Cracking video Mark, same as a previous comment, I am unsure on how it found its way onto my computer but I am glad it did. Have now subscribed. Thank you.
Fascinating documentary, would love to see part 2
Well, that was a lot more interesting than it probably should have been.