Where Am I? No. 235 - Coast Scene

[roopat]

I will risk the opprobrium of my fellow Rootschatters by making a comparison,hopefully to similar scale,of the posted photograph and a presumably much more recent one(desaturated).Given the fact that there may be 100 years or so between them and they are from slightly different angles,I still find the comparison interesting(including the white footpath(?) above the geological feature)
Could there have been a bridge that allowed access perhaps to the tip of Porth Island 100 years ago?

Regards
Roger

I think the geological similarities between the 2 photos are striking, Roger - so no opprobrium from me   

Pat

[lizdb]

I don't know what opprobrium means - so you wont get any from me (at least not knowingly!)

Sorry to have led you all up the garden (or coastal?) path with St Catherines Tenby .......

Just been studying the google satellite picture that was linked (Spidermonkey reply #41)- it would only work if the photo had been reversed when printed. The photographer would be standing on the small bit jutting out immediately SE of the bridge, and then then background would be the headland (marked Tenby Museum and art gallery) with the paths on it. Not the town at all. And it would have to be high tide so beach there covered.


However - seeing as the rock strata do go the wrong way, and the background still doesn't match brilliantly, I can see that it probably isn't St Catherines after all - so sorry for the false hope! 
(You have to admit it did have possibility!!!)

Hope we can find it!

[ScouseBoy]

I sincerely and honestly think that the structure is NOT  a  bridge  but  a construction to carry cables across  a gap.  Perhaps telephone, telegraph  or electricity.
Is there an absence  of trees on the opposite bank?

[cazza59]

What I also find intriguing is, where or how was the photo taken.  From a hill top?  Aerial?

Caz

[KGarrad]

I sincerely and honestly think that the structure is NOT  a  bridge  but  a construction to carry cables across  a gap.  Perhaps telephone, telegraph  or electricity.
Is there an absence  of trees on the opposite bank?

Why would anyone want to take a photograph of cables?

Why would anyone want to carry cables to a rock?

[Nick_Ips]

Caz,

I'd say the picture was taken from the top of a similar adjacent outcrop of rock. The alternating hard/soft rock types could give rise to this kind of coastline with numerous small bays and headlands.

In fact the two objects at the bottom of the picture which have been identified as possibly a boat may mean the area between the camera and the bridge is being used as a small harbour?

Nick

[lizdb]

Perhaps telephone,

Cant see a telephone box on the rock .......

[ScouseBoy]

The rock may have been marked by red navigation lights.

[Nick_Ips]

In ScouseBoy's defence, you might want to carry cables (communications, power etc) across a gap like this, for example if the top of the rock was used for some military/navigation purpose.

But I cannot think of a purpose where you wouldn't also want to have human access, either for operation of the equipment or maintenance, so you would also need to provide an access bridge.

As a civil engineer, I can see a bridge with handrails, with paths leading up to at least one side. So for me it is a bridge intended to be used by people 

Also, as I've mentioned already, the design and robustness of the walls suggest to me it is intended for use by the public, rather than the military or civil authorities.