According to Chris…
Even when derelict, the Kinsol trestle was provided with a viewing platform so that visitors could be impressed.
CHRIS LEIGH
In its original location, the Kinsol model was viewed from the other side. The backscene is a montage of views from the real trestle.
"That Belah and Crumlin were destroyed seems almost like demolishing the Eiffel Tower or bulldozing Stonehenge"
I t’s one of those irrational things. I don’t like heights but I do love a nice big bridge. I’ve always put my fear of heights down to the fact that, as a very small child, I rode my tricycle down the stairs of the block of flats where we lived. At around the same time, my fearless father took me up the ladder to the very top of Hartland Point lighthouse. I don’t recall enjoying it!
I grew up in a town whose bridge was infamous. Staines bridge carried the A30 road over the Thames, and on summer weekends its traffic jams were legendary. It also had a wooden Bailey bridge put up during the war and used as a footbridge into the 1960s. You could look through the gaps in the timber and see the murky water of the Thames swirling below.