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Mullion, The Marconi Memorial 1939
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The memorial commemorates the first radio signal sent across the Atlantic on 12 December 1901. The Morse letter 'S' was transmitted here to St John's, Newfoundland, where Guglielmo Marconi was eagerly listening. The Poldhu station closed in 1937, and the memorial was erected in the same year.

An extract from Helston Photographic Memories.

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A Selection of Memories from Mullion

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Mullion

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Elm Cottage
My family used to stay at Elm Cottage on Trewoon Road in Mullion for many of our summer holidays during the 1970's. The cottage belonged to a Mrs Kent, known to us affectionately as Aunty Ellie, who at that time lived in Caerleon in Wales with her Son and daughter in law Ted and Jean. We spent our summers at old Elm Cottage in the days before it was modernised. It had for example all it's original windows, fireplaces (but ...see more
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My Home
My parents, Dot and Reg Poynter, bought the Mounts Bay in about 1948 and turned it into a hotel where we lived as a family until 1960.
Mullion, Mounts Bay Hotel c1955
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