Media library

Early cable laying outside the Theatre Royal, Bristol

Our Photo Library contains a collection of well over 8000 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.