Cable laying in 1893 at the corner of Back of Bridge Street with High Street, Bristol. According to chalked labels on the drums, the cables are being laid under High Street into Baldwin Street.
Our Photo Library contains a collection of well over 15000 images, some dating back to the 1890s. You can explore some of them here:
- Commercial
- Overhead lines
- Substations – Bristol
- Substations – Cornwall
- Substations – Devon
- Underground cables
- Generation 1892 to 1919
- Generation 1920 to 1939
- Generation 1940 onward (and unknown)
We also have a collection of films from the 1940s and before. You can see a selection of our films here, and we will be adding more in due course.