A brief history of Semaphore Tower, Chatley Heath

A webinar on Landmark's latest restoration, a Napoleonic Semaphore Tower in Surrey. Landmark's Historian Caroline Stanford talks about its history and provides an update on latest progress.

[@vpougy]

what a great lecture; informative and to the point. excellent work. thank you

[@martinshipman3260]

As a descendant of Home Riggs I’d like to thank you for looking after his invention. Any more info would be gratefully received.

[@zenaidaspeyers7186]

Visited yesterday..lovely walk, surprisingly sandy ground almost like close to the sea.

[@ValChronification]

I was there yesterday too! Also had a peek at the abandoned airfield i the area. :)

[@rosiemsmith46]

Thank you so much for taking the time to organise this presentation. This video is extremely informative. I am completing a Major Research Project on the semaphore line from the Admiralty House to Portsmouth Harbour. If you have any more nuggets of wisdom I would love to know more (Chatley Heath related ephemera etc).

[@TaLeng2023]

I wish restoration is a thing in my country.

[@doolittlegeorge]

These were originally developed in France for military communications so the messages had to be short and to the point and immediately understood as no one transmitting the message had any idea what was being said and along the way could become "garbled" therefore and for any number of reasons (bad weather for example or of course "normative rain.") This was all quickly replaced by the Telegraph but this was as a commercial form of communication in order to run the entire US Railroad System. This system had interesting implications for European Railroad systems tho which is still true today.