We have had problems with two of the delivery partners for this event and for the moment at least it is not going ahead.
If you are interested in a trip down to Cornwall then the best thing is to give me a call and I can chat through possible options.. 07710 020 040
2025 is the 100th anniversary of the completion of the A30 from Hounslow to Land's End and London West are heading west, a long way west, to explore the Communications Coast in Cornwall together with our friends from the Harrow Car Club and Midget and Sprite Club and the Three Pot Special Interest Group. We are also hoping to meet up with local Caterham owners and the Cornish Classic Car Club (with special thanks to the local AR team John and Lyn Roskruge for their help with this). There will also be two or three people joining us with a particular interest in the telecoms heritage of the Communications Coast. This is an independent event to which Caterham and Lotus 7 Club members are invited rather than specifically a Club event but should be good fun. The Communications Coast starts at Pendeen (Geevor) and ends at the Lizard and overlaps with the Tin Coast which the National Trust designates as starting at Cape Cornwall to St Just. The coast road and the roads inland are superbly scenic (and packed with mining and telecoms technology and engineering history).
We are using the Land End Hotel as the host hotel but there are plenty of other options available. Phone. email or message me if you want to chat about this.
Most of us will be heading down on Monday 22nd. The provisional schedule is a tour of the Geevor Tin Mine on Tuesday, the Cable and Wireless Museum in Porthcurno on Wednesday, the Marconi Centre in Poldhu on Thursday morning and Goonhilly on Thursday afternoon. I will book the group tours (typically about £20 for each tour). Hotel booking is up to each individual. The Lands End Hotel has secure parking and is twenty minutes drive from Porthcurno.
If you are interested in joining us then RSVP on this Event page or e-mail me at
[email protected]
Or phone me on 07710 020 040
Images- The Cable Hut on Porthcurno beach, the Lands End Coast, Poldhu Beach Cafe, the Porthcurno bunker. The Cable and Wireless Museum, now rebranded as PK Porthcurno, is the winner of the coveted 2025 London West Middlesex Bunker of the Year Award. The 2024 winner was the Battle of Britain Bunker in Hillingdon.
Note that we have very special access to the telecoms related venues on this tour including the archive room at Porthcurno and the Goonhilly historical archive (not normally open to the public).
For technical background on the tour see the two attached pdf files, 'Cornish Connections' and 'From Tin to Telecoms'.
Other useful links
www.landsendhotel.co.uk
https://geevor.com/
https://pkporthcurno.com/
https://www.marconi-centre-poldhu.org.uk/
https://www.goonhilly.org/
If you have additional time available, The Marconi hut on the Lizard is also well worth a visit. This is the site used to establish a radio link to Alum Bay a year before Marconi's Atlantic Leap (1901). The two sites together mark the beginning of long distance (over the horizon) wireless communication.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cornwall/lizard-point/history-of-the-marconi-radio-stations-on-lizard-point
If your Seven is off the road, an alternative is to come down to Penzance by train following the spectacular route of Brunel's broad gauge railway. A bus will get you to the Lizard and there should be plenty of opportunity to hitch a ride with another Seven member. There are some fabulous roads in Cornwall with fabulous views and the summer crowds will have more or less disappeared.
Cornish Connections_v5.pdf
From Tin to Telecoms v2.pdf
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