Where Am I? No. 235 - Coast Scene

[JenB]

  but perhaps you were unable to enlarge the image?

Of course I was able to enlarge it! I've spent considerable time since yesterday, when it was first posted, with the photo enlarged, trying to interpret it.

I don't think I was alone in assuming you were joking when you said it looks 'very much like an articulated lorry like Morrisons use'.

[Mike in Cumbria]

I don't think I was alone in assuming you were joking when you said it looks 'very much like an articulated lorry like Morrisons use'.

On the contrary, I thought he was probably serious, which is even worse!

[ScouseBoy]

That thing which you have just marked with a red arrow looks very much like an articulated lorry like Morrisons currently use.
This is an analogy,  it looks like a 40 foot long container.
I have enlarged it.

Yet again you have edited a posting. The sentence starting 'this is an analogy.........' wasn't in your original.

    Were you aware that there were THREE  red arrows  marking objects that Cazza was highlighting?   What is your assessment of the top two objects, I wonder?

[John915]

Good evening,

Firstly I think all the white lines are stone walls rather than roads. they are too upright for anything else given the angle.

I can't see morrisons on the side of the container so I think it is a small building in the corner of the field.

More importantly, whilst this is not the one, I think we are in a location similar to this. The bridge is part of the access to it from water level.

John915

[arthurk]

Could there have been a lighthouse there at one time i.e. bridge to gain access?

Annie

good suggestion, but more likely to be small navigation lights than a big lighthouse

I've been giving this some thought, and I wonder if the lighthouse idea might have something going for it. I've looked at rather a lot in the past hour or so, and there are some features in common with this picture.

(EDIT: John915 posted while I was typing; the red message didn't bring up the picture, but I now see he may be thinking on similar lines.)

The wall on the right, with a rather zig-zag shape: many lighthouses seem to have a substantial wall built around the site, sometimes of a similar shape to this - presumably to stop keepers wandering off the cliff edge in the dark or fog if their torches give out. So if I'm right, the lighthouse will be somewhere off to the right.

The bridge to nowhere: I wondered at first if there might be some kind of mooring on the other side of the rock, but now I'm wondering if there might be some kind of light, or more likely a foghorn. If you search for "Mull of Galloway lighthouse foghorn" (I don't think this is it, by the way), you'll see that the foghorn is some way down the cliff below the lighthouse. Presumably siting it against a cliff helps the sound to carry out to sea? So could there be something similar here?

Having said all that, I haven't found a picture to match ours, though most of the ones I found were quite recent. But do you think there might be anything in this?

Arthur

[ScouseBoy]

Arthur. you are quite correct many lighthouses  do have powerful fog horns installed at the sites.    And I believe they have a distinct time pattern to enable  vessels to be able to know which lighthouse is emitting that pattern.

[Spidermonkey]

This is a map of current lighthouses in Cornwall http://incornwall.info/lighthouses/

A more comprehensive list https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/engsw.htm

[Trishanne]

Another thought is could it have been an engine room of a  Cornish tin mine similar to this one at Botallack. If you look  on the left hand side, the bridge could end up  in the remains of a building...

[groom]

I like that idea!