Comments on: River Tamar Bridge Shadows

By: tracy

tracy — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:56:31 +0000

i really enjoy taking holidays around the world england has some good points but it also has bad ones.

By: plymothian

plymothian — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:41:53 +0000

thanks Adam - i always though we’d take out cornwall when the time is right…

By: adam lewis

adam lewis — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:12:07 +0000

By the way.
Brunels Railway bridge is also a suspention bridge–and again -the first in the world of its kind.

By: adam lewis

adam lewis — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:10:05 +0000

“”"anyone have any idea what the military get up to in the base thats underneath the field just above the bridge and to the right?”"

its a ammo store. behind the blue doors ( you can see them) . there is enough ammo under that hill— to start a small war!! which is handy–

By: plymothian

plymothian — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:21:20 +0000

anyone have any idea what the military get up to in the base thats underneath the field just above the bridge and to the right? when you travel over the tamar bridge from the cornwall side the entrance is in plain view

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:39:33 +0000

And they called it the Batman Bridge? I feel sorry for the guy it was named after.

By: woowoowoo

woowoowoo — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:58:09 +0000

one day I hope there’ll be hi-res imagery of this other rather spectacular Placemark: bridge over another Tamar River / Google Earth in Tasmania. Ground level shot at Wikipedia.

By: BM of M

BM of M — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:55:16 +0000

watch the speed limits that’s all i can say.

Nicest policeman in the world ever smiled jokingly and produced a VISA transaction machine from his monster truck and gave me a 25% discount for being foreign.

crazy country, lovely people.

absolutely nothing to do with the Tamar bridge.

By: JAMES

JAMES — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:53:59 +0000

where did that random post come from?
Those crazy Icelanders (???)!

By: AliMac

AliMac — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:42:30 +0000

Ha Ha Ha. brilliant. this guy thinks he lives in iceland - as if anyone lives there - its not even a real country.

On a serious (and less sarcastic note) here is the clifton suspension bridge also designed and (partially) built by brunel and often considered one of the great feats of engineering.

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

the sat shots dont do it justice - here are some ground level shots and a very good website related to the bridge.

http://www.clifton-suspension-bridge.org.uk/

and by all accounts it is ridiculously over-engineered, apparentley able to support a row of terraced houses along its length. (for obvious reasons nobody has tried this).