Goonhilly high plateau near the Lizard in Cornwall. Slightly offset to the right of centre is the Earth Station, currently a defunct BT communications base, falling into disrepair. Originally the base was one of the linked radar network sites during the Second World War, then it became related to satellite telecomms in the Cold War and finally civilian telecomms with BT... it was the largest satellite uplink in the world, received the pictures of the Moon landings from the Apollo spaceship.
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