IF YOU THOUGHT the world wide web was a 20th-21st century phenomenon, think again.
Better still, come to the Woodmead Hall in Lyme Regis next Thursday, 11 November at 2.30pm, and hear all about the Porthcurno Museum in deepest Cornwall, home of the Victorian Internet.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum
Did you know, for instance, that Porthcurno Valley down near Lands End was the hub of international cable communications for a hundred years, starting in 1870?
Or that it housed a training college for the communications industry until 1993?
You didn’t?
Well come along to the Woodmead Hall and hear all about it from its first professional curator, Mary Godwin, who, despite her various degrees in fine arts became a “reluctant scientist” in order to tell the story to a wider audience, and turn Porthcurno Telegraph Museum into one of the biggest visitor attractions in the south-west.
Mary is now the Curator of Lyme Regis Museum where, in the space of just over two years, she has turned a small museum much loved by the local community into a mecca for geologists, fossil collectors and archaeologists from all over the world.
The Porthcurno talk is being organised by The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum, and if you’d like to learn more about it please contact me, Margaret Rose, on 01297-445503.
As Chairman of The Friends and a Trustee of the Museum I’m a big fan of everything that Mary and her team are doing to promote this architectural gem, smack in the middle of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.
Tickets cost £2 for members of the Friends of Lyme Regis Museum, £3 for visitors. The price includes refreshments.
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