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The company that brought cables to Weston was the Commercial Cable Company, based in New York. It is also described in some (Weston) newspaper reports as the Commercial Union Cable Company but I have not seen that used elsewhere... They were not at the forefront of cable development, which started some 40 years earlier, but were one of the three companies that laid transatlantic cables from the area around Canso, Nova Scotia. The aim of CCC was to compete with the pioneering cables landing at Newfoundland which enjoyed monopoly rights for that location... Learn about the Victorian Internet at Weston-super-Mare.

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