The Life of the Company

The unique history of Cable & Wireless is a story of people as well as of technology and enterprise. This section describes the lives and experiences of people who are part of Cable & Wireless past and present.

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Cable & Wireless and the British Empire

Coventry Training College

Sir John Denison-Pender

Electra House, Embankment: ‘The Fortress’

Electra House, Moorgate

Emergency Communications

Facts & Figures: Staff Data

First World War

Mercury House, London

Nationalisation

Sir John Pender – Founder of Cable & Wireless

Porthcurno at War

Privatisation of Cable & Wireless

Second World War

Staff: ‘Where You May Serve’

Staff: Life as an ‘Exile’

Sir Edward Wilshaw