<p>WHEN Marconi sent the first wireless signal from the UK to Newfoundland in the early 1900s, via our own Brow Head, he inadvertently sounded the death knell of many small businesses in Crookhaven.</p>
Some names stand out when it comes to computers, like Charles Babbage, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, not forgetting Percy Ludgate who died 100 years ago next monthPERCY Edwin Ludgate was born on August 2nd 1883, in Townshend Street, Skibbereen the youngest of seven boys and one g
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