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Cable laying near Bromborough Bridge, 1935

Archive reference 12443-2

men kneeling in a long, recently dug ditch alongside a country road, with long pipes running along the bottom

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This photograph was commissioned by Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd.

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Did you work at Mersey Cable Works Ltd? If you have any information about this photograph or the Stewart Bale company then we’d like to hear from you. Please contact Anne Gleave, curator of photographic archives on 0151 478 4487 or send Anne Gleave an email.