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Cable Innovator, specialised ship to lay undersea cable, whilst docked at the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda. More info: www.ship-technology.com/projects/cable/

Cable Works by D Meurig

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Factory built in around 1912 for local man Harold W. Smith, specialising in cables and cabling for the mining industry. One of only four works in the country that could produce braided electrical cables at the outbreak of the First World War, as a result was awarded contracts from the Ministry of War producing parts for the 'D mk III' field telephone.

The workforce grew from 40 [1912] to 650 as well as works operating on a double shift pattern for the duration of the war. By 1918, 15,000 miles of electrical cable had been produced.

Post war slump resulted in the 'H. W. Smith & Co' works going into administration. Works bought by 'Edison Swan Electric Co' [later 'Associated Electrical Company' and Siemens] to produce power lines cabling.

During the Second World War, the works had [again!] one of the four machines in the country able to produce lead tubes. These tubes were used in the construction of 'PLUTO' 'Pipe-Line Underwater Transportation of Oil' / 'Pipe-Lines Under the Ocean' which were fuel lines between the Isle of Wight and France to support the invasion of Normandy, 'Operation Overlord'.

The cable works closed in 1966 and was bought by a paper & cardboard company 'Reed Paper Group' who manufactured packaging.

The factory closed in the mid-1990s.

Further reading;

rcsigs.ca/index.php/Telephone_Set_D_Mk_III

wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pluto

forest-of-dean.net/fodmembers/index.php?mode=thread&id=6614#p6626

Cables and wires by Ali Craigmile

A temporary extension to BBC Scotland's newsroom is underway this week to facilitate coverage of the 2014 independence referendum.

I'm sure there's some kind of metaphor in this picture, with YES and NO camps on the left and the various issues on the right.

steel bridge by Garrett Meyers

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Cable Modem by Paul Boxley

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My new cable modem! Yay!

bananensleeve-mdpcxyq1g by modDIY

{ cables } by Melissa Johnson

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Taken using my Minolta Rokkor 58mm lens, on my Oly E-PL2

Cable Street Studios by Andy Worthington

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At the eastern end of Cable Street, in Shadwell, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where it meets Butcher Row, near the border with Limehouse, this is the entrance to Cable Street Studios, formerly Thames House, at 566 Cable Street, a huge Victorian warehouse complex, 88,000 square feet in total, where artists and musicians live and work, and there are exhibitions, live music, club nights and more.

The most acclaimed club appears to be Jamboree, about which one enthusiastic blogger recently wrote, "Jamboree harks back to another time – the kind of place that appears in books about the 60s and 70s – a magical place full of curios (my £5 entry included a wonderful Wickerman-esque hare mask) and intriguing people, where everyone knows each other but at the same time still welcomes you in with open arms and engaging smiles. The kind of place you dream about finding before ‘Shoreditch cool’ invades and turns it into a museum of itself." I like how it is "the kind of place that appears in books about the 60s and 70s," as though there is no one still alive who experienced those places first-hand.

I'm not currently aware of the status of the studios, which were established as an artist-led initiative in the 1980s, and then ran into problems with rapacious landlords in the 1990s. Photo taken on July 24, 2012.

For rave reviews of Jamboree, see: jamboreevenue.co.uk/

See here for the troubled business history of the studios: raimes.com/conf2.htm

And see here for a dreadful proposal for the studios' gentrification: www.skyscrapernews.com/picturedisplay.php?ref=6058&id...

And see here for the planning application: legacy.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning_decisions/strategic_d...

For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/

Cables y palomas by Carlos A. Redondo

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Balvanera

cables by dany Sqdro

CC cable hanger by david davis

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Photo for reference. Note how the cable hanger is pushed upwards by the tension of the cable housing. It adds some friction to the rear brake pull. Of course it could also be due to the cable not quite fitting straight into the cable stop.

Cable Comforter by GFTC

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Rope cables on a garter stitch ground.

pattern: Cable Comforter

yarn: Rowan Cork (15 skeins)

color: Hearten #041 (red)

needles: Susanne's Ebony #11 32"circular

pattern source: Kim Hargreaves for Rowan Magazine #34

Transformer by Jorge Eduardo Chamorro

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hormiga que se transforma en torre

Cable Rolls by Klearchos Kapoutsis