My trip to the Lizard peninsular July 2018

On 18 July 2018 I drove to Porthleven from Bodmin to explore the Lizard countryside

A nice place, pasties and art shops with a small beach. Then to Penrose a NT estate

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Porthleven, Porthleven, Penrose

19 July

To Mullion Cove and a walk to the Marconi centre, perhaps.
I had hoped for a nice cliff top walk but no, the path is very steep down to and up from each bay. I chickened out at Polurrian Bay. The Marconi monument was in sight but would I be able to get back.
The walk back along the road was easy and I felt good.

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Mullion Cove, Mullion Cove, Mullion Cove, Polurrian-bay

I drove to Poldhu bay and walked to the Marconi centre only to find it closed. It would open in an hours time. I now know that one can park there so I got the car and drove back up. An interesting place.

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Marconi monument


Here are the inscriptions on each of the four sides of the monument.

ONE HUNDRED YARDS NORTH EAST OF THIS COLUMN STOOD FROM 1900 TO 1953 THE FAMOUS POLDHU WIRELESS STATION DESIGNED BY JOHN AMBROSE FLEMING AND ERECTED BY THE MARCONI COMPANY OF LONDON FROM WHICH WERE TRANSMITTED THE FIRST SIGNALS WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. THE SIGNALS CONSISTED OF A REPETITION OF THE MORSE LETTER S AND WERE RECEIVED AT ST JOHN'S NEWFOUNDLAND. BY GUGLIELMO MARCONI AND HIS BRITISH ASSOCIATES ON 12. 12. 1901

FROM THE MARCON COMPANY’S POLDHU STATION IN 1923 AND 1994. CHARLES SAMUEL FRANKLIN INVENTOR OF THE FRANKLIN BEAM AERIAL DIRECTED HIS SHORT WAVE WIRELESS BEAM TRANSMISSION TO GUGLIELMO MARCONI ON FIS YACHT ELETTRA CRUISING IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC. THE EPOCH MAKING RESULTS OF THESE EXPERIMENTS LAID THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN HIGH SPEED RADIOTELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION TO AND FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE

TO COMMEMORATE THE PIONEER WORK DONE BY GUGLIELMO MARCONI AND HIS RESEARCH EXPERTS AND RADIO ENGINEERS AT THE POLDHU WIRELESS STATION BETWEEN 1900 AND 1933. THE MARCONI COMPANY PRESENTED THIS HISTORIC LAND TO THE NATIONAL TRUST. SOME SIX ACRES OF CLIFF LAND WERE GIVEN IN 1937 AND FORTY FOUR ACRES BEHIND THE CLIFFS. ON WHICH STOOD THE STATION AND MASTS, WERE GIVEN IN 1960.

THE POLDHU WIRELESS STATION WAS USED BY THE MARCONI COMPANY FOR THE FIRST TRANSOCEANIC SERVICE OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY WHICH WAS OPENED WITH A SECOND MARCONI STATION AT GLACE BAY IN CANADÀ IN 1902. WHEN THE POLDHU STATION WAS ERECTED IN 1900 WIRELESS WAS IN ITS INFANCY. WHEN IT WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1935 WIRELESS WAS ESTABLISHED FOR COMMUNICATION ON LAND, AT SEA, AND IN THE AIR FOR DIRECTION FINDING, BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION.

Then on to the Lizard point, the most southerly point in mainland Britain.

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Here is a link to the NT site
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Lizard point, Lizard point

I use an app on my phone named "3WordPhoto" you take a picture with the app and your "3 Word " location is superimposed. the app is here

To see where I have been on my travels, click on each picture to see the location. This takes you to the "What Three Words" maps.
Click the coloured circle (top left to see the satellite view) and zoom out to see the full view.

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Penrose, Marconi monument, Lizard point, Lizard point
All in all a good three days but after the six hours driving on Friday I was very tired and pleased to be home.

This page was updated on
24 July 2018