The Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications 

There is a very valid reason as to why part two has not been made. You will soon understand. The role of mass surveillance is critically vital to an ongoing situation and I would not want to jeopardise anything, so I will wait until I am sure my video would cause no harm.

Why don't they make documentaries like this for television any more? This is the most intelligent and original work I have seen in a very long time.

I don’t often comment on videos, but bloody hell was this fascinating! Thank you for making it.

Interesting video and a great amount of effort shows. A couple of details to fill a gap or two, the unmanned building across from Skewjack with the cable line towards it is a Chain Home radar transmitter bunker and was decommissioned in the late 1950s and has been used for agricultural purposes and is being converted into a dwelling. The bunker that you describe as a nuclear bunker next to the satellite BT station next to Skewjack is one of the original substation bunkers for the chain home site (there is another at Trebehor) and was last used for the supply to Lands End radio, it was decommissioned after that and the BT site is fed from a transformer on a pole near the CH substation. There are pictures about of the CH site taken during WW2, the receiver bunkers being either side of the BT site and transmitters south of them, the second transmitter bunker is used as an artists studio. Hope that plugs some gaps.

Absolutely superb documentary, I live in Cornwall and found this fascinating, I have passed these buildings day after day without realising what they were!

As everyone else has said this documentary is an example of how a meaningful documentary should be made. Firstly, many thanks for all the effort and time you spent making this, it is very much appreciated. It is professional, informative and well presented. I very much look forward to a part 2 and any other documentaries you produce.

Brilliant, top-notch documentary. If there's any such thing as an award for independent documentary makers, you should most definitely get one!!

There's no such thing as a perfect RU-vid vi... Seriously, as a very proud Kernow native and ultra-nerd, this is absolutely one of the greatest things I have ever watched! So glad I stumbled upon your channel! Keep up the ace work 🤘

this is the first yt I have ever seen without a single advertisement

Fantastic bit of work here, lots of effort and homework done. I'll be out scoping the roads of Western Australia. Cheers mates

Fantastic film Mark. I worked on the AC2 landing station in Bude when it was being built and was involved in the commissioning of the fibres and DWDM's but didn't have a clue what it was going to be used for back then apart from a link to the US.... Very well researched documentary and really loved it. Cheers

I've probably watched this 5 times or more, it is one of my favourite videos on RU-vid thank you

Excellent work Mark. Secret infrastructure is mostly hidden in plain sight.

Absolutely first class documentary on the cables in cornwall.

My late father was involved in the "Goonhilly Project" in about 1960, later on I went to the college at C&W Telecommunications College. This is a superb video, absolutely fascinating.

Awesome! As a tels engineer working in the electrical industry it still fascinates me just how much we can squeeze down a thin glass fibre.

7 years ago and i still watch this video all the time

Thanks for the film Mark, I really enjoyed this. I've been a bit of a spotter of these places for some years but I've never seen such a careful explanation as yours.

I have never really thought about whats under a man hole cover ,except telephone wires and sewers ,but after watching this awesome film i was fascinated,i had no idea at all all that was under our feet ,and i love the clear way you explained it all with drone footage and high lighted cables your awesome what a fantastic brain you must have to edit all this data and know all this information so well you can explain it to somebody like me , thank so much .i feel like ive really learnt something ,i will look at man holes in a totally different way from now on

Brilliant. Excellent job Mark - cant wait for more.

Loving your work! Cant wait for part 2.

Do hope you do more of these. Find it completely interesting. 🙌 love your work.

Brilliant video. Watched a few times now. Fasinating. Can't wait for Part 2

PLEASE do lots more of this stuff. What a fantastic watch.

Interesting and very well put together. Looking forward to Part 2 now!

Wow im blown away by the work you have done here. Hats off!

Wow, what a fascinating film. Thanks so much for uploading and all the work you must have put in. So many questions!

serendipity brought me to your post. I cannot comprehend the totality of your researches but you are a flippin' amazing hound dog to share your knowledge. Never give up... Never surrender!

An extremely thorough and comprehensive piece of work. Well done Mark, I appreciate the time, effort, energy and stress which this film must have taken to prepare. You've presented all the facts in a very attractive way, woven as part of a methodical geographic narrative. I take my hat off to you!

I have lived in Cornwall for over 40yrs and spent many a beautiful day on Porthcurno. My brother works at Goonhilly. Enjoyed the video.

Actually I was looking for any good documentary on Cornwall as my next holiday destination. Ended up watching this interesting, intriguing and so well made coverage. Thanks!

This is a fantastic documentary. Not overly dramatic but thorough and interesting!

absolutely fascinating watch, well done Mark

Fascinating, thank you :) I don't watch much TV anymore, with content like this, there's no need to ! :)

Brilliant Mark so pleased I came across your. Channel.

Really enjoyed this , was at Goonhilly back in 2000 , when it was fully operational . It wont get decommed. There are way too many entries into the UK via Goonhilly . look forward to your part two. Keep the good work up . And the video was well presented.

Awesome film!! Thank you for taking the time and effort in the making of it. I trail run and explore, particularly down on the Lizard, I'm intrigued by the story of the coach arriving in Ponsongath! I'm defo having a detailed mooch around down there next week.

Fairly staggering documentary. I’m viewing it from New Zealand but my grandmother was Cornish and I’ve been to Cornwall many times, and walked along some of those narrow lanes myself, which have half the worlds data underneath them! Well done, very thorough research. No wonder the police wanted to talk to you!

Greetings from Nevada, U.S.A. - Thank You Mark, it was very interesting and informative. Also, Thanks for the wonderful tour through the Cornwall countryside, - someplace I'll never get to see in person.

Excellent piece of work. Really well put together. Thank you. Looking forward to "Part Two"(?!)

Fascinating ! I can't wait for part 2 !

WOW, Thanks Mark for all the hard work making this.

Brilliant and well done. I have been tracking this stuff for years so to see a documentary as well made as this is fantastic. Great revelation on Bosvine Farm too.

The landing stations are much like the format & presentation of your documentary, a small unassuming structure which carries a huge amount of data away from prying eyes. Four years to make - well done.

What an excellent documentary! Please please give us an idea when part 2 will be uploaded :)

Cracking video Mark, same as a previous comment, I am unsure on how it found its way onto my computer but I am glad it did. Have now subscribed. Thank you.

Just extraordinary research and top notch production. Really 4 years in the making?! Well it shows. I don't have a Netflix account, Sky subscription for a reason. RU-vid is still the go to place for the best docs. I hope it remains ad free for the foreseeable. This is the 3rd time I've watched this and I've learned even more as there's so much info. Great work.

Absolutely excellent, +Mark Thomas Better than most content on TV better than most documentaries made by large pro teams. Full credit

Probably one of the greatest videos on RU-vid, ever. I know not many are into this sort of thing, but why doesn't this sort of content get spots on things like Netflix? This is just so masterfully done

Fascinating documentary, would love to see part 2

Ah, submarine cables.... fond memories for me, I was involved in the laying and engineering of ANZCAN submarine cable (analog) from Australia to Norfolk Island to Fiji to Hawaii and ending in Vancouver Canada I was also involved with the early digital cables from Exeter to Cornwall, I was working for Standard Telephones an Cables STC back in the 80's on both the above jobs

Awesome video. The footage/locations filmed in the Spring/Summer really give it an ASMR quality for me.

Most excellent...absolutely loaded with interesting and relevent information....much appreciate your research and attention to detail.

This is one of the best OSINT work that i've ever came across. Thanks a lot mate!

This is superb - great research and really well compiled.

As a local this has been a brilliantly informative video, thankyou. I remember working at st morgan when they put the cables in at Watergate bay. spooky stuff.

This is amazing thank you for uploading !

Fascinating video! Many thanks for a great work!

Brilliant Mark, I knew Skewjack was something "special" with all the cctv on it. I know and recognise many of the locations "down west" so it seems you've answered a few questions out of curiosity! Interesting on the "security" at a few locations. Once again, brilliant video, you really done your research 👍

This is a great video, working for openreach and living local I have spent a lot of time in the widemouth bay telephone exchange and it has encouraged me to find out more, there are various collections of documents that remain in widemouth regarding the old transatlantic cables quite fascinating.

Very well made this deserves more publicity!

This video gives me information, that makes me understand this part of my daily day life better. Thank's Mark.

Fascinating stuff. Thank you Mark

Amazing research and camera work. What dedication. Only slight negative is that sometimes the background sound track was a bit intrusive. Overall a fantastic, enlightening piece of work. Thank you. I really look forward to Part 2

Terrific. Can't wait for the next instalment.

Fascinating to learn how much is going on in these remoter parts of Kernow. I knew it was important but this is remarkable. Skewjack was a wartime RAF camp but I don't know whether it was telecomms. Then the huts became a tourist site, latterly Skewjack Surf Village. Think how much longer the film would have been if the pc brigade had forced you to talk about "personnel access facilities"!! Roll on Part 2 - hope you're not in gaol!

Great Video - Can't wait for part 2.

Amazing work, well done!

Many thanks from Cornwall resident, fascinating.

Brilliantly done investigation and editing. This should be how the big networks do information programmes and not the mind numbing garbage they dish out now. As a side not I used to live just out side Bude in a little village called Bush to wit there was a earth bank abuting our cottage which, so I was informed by an old BT employee, had the transatlantic cable buried in it. Hence why we could run our garage strip light, though flickeringly, off its radiated power bleed.

That was frikin excellent. terrific job!

A stunning bit of research and so well done

Wow this is amazing thanks for your hard work folk :)

Mark, your documentatory is highly impressive and immaculately researched, you really did your homework, well done. Would love to see you turn your skills to finding nuclear bunkers!

Wow. That was really interesting. I did enjoy watching that. Thankyou

Really good mate.Nice production.

Amazing.. Muchly enjoyed

Well researched and presented. Fascinating stuff.

Fantastic piece of work Mark, thouroughly enjoyed this informative documentary. Very well researched. Where is part 2 please?...

excellent research.

Excellent piece of journalism!! Produced by three people, wow, bbc would need a shed load to make this. Well done the team, just be careful, your card must be marked for sure.....

Glad I found this - answered a lot of questions!

Really good job on this one m8!

Really enjoyed this video, for both historical and career information. I’m a retired electrical engineer that worked for the Air Force Satellite Control Network which had documentation illustrating locations of transAtlantic UK landing points. I would like to visit a museum of this sort to see construction of these cables and their capacities.

Great video .... thoroughly enjoyed it

that ""Bude Furniture"" container looks legit, just like the 'Flowers By Irene' van in The Simpsons.

This is unreal mate brilliant 👏🏻

This doco was very interesting and very well presented.

A very nice piece of work. Well done.

underground stuff really interests me. tunnels bunkers, old mine shafts, cold war relics, and now cable ducts and routes! brilliant video, been wanting to visit cornwall/devon for a while, will probably go in the summer

I bet your children love their holidays with you! I lived, as did my father, in Cornwall for many years and was almost totally unaware of the level of communication networks in the county . I lived in St Mawgan, just below the airport which, for many years, was the home of RAF St Mawgan . The activity of Nimrod aircraft was constant, and provided great amusement for anyone with an interest in military aircraft movements.

cannot wait for part 2

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Part 2 ???

Awesome work, thank you!

Excellent Work. Well Done Sir !

Well done. Very interesting stuff.

Very well done very interesting & very informative Love the milk man 30 people use to leave in a bus then 30 people use to arrive by bus at a bungalow wow just wow 🧐😀

Excellent job! I’m having a nerdgasm!

Wow I never knew so much was going on in my home County. Thanks for all of your hard work. x

Fascinating. Thanks much!