Submarine Telegraph Cable Memorial Pyramid

On this site stood the wooden hut where the submarine telegraph cable ended that was laid from Brest in 1880 by CS Faraday for La Compagnie Française du Télégraphe de Paris based in New York.
The cable connected Ireland to the Americas via the company's transatlantic cable from Brest, laid the year before.
In 1912 the cable end was moved to the Eastern Telegraph Company hut lower on the cliff at Porthcurno, where it remained in use until 1942.
The Eastern Telegraph Company, founded in 1872, played a key role in communications with India. It operated the cable laid by Brunel's steamship The Great Eastern from Bombay to Suez. From Suez the cable joined the Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta Telegraph Company's cable to Porthcurno via Malta.
(Information board)

The pyramid marks the end of the Telegram submarine cable via Brest to New York, which was laid in 1880 and operated until 1962.