Where Am I? No. 235 - Coast Scene

[Trishanne]

I had already looked at that, but the rocks don't seem right and the surrounding area is all wrong unfortunately.

[Little Nell]

I am sceptical about the lighthouse theory - the light would not be visible beyond the land that can be seen behind it in the photo.  Would that not negate the point of the lighthouse?  Unless that land is is well behind the 'lighthouse' and that rock is a promontory into the sea.  Which would then imply that the photographer is on a similar promontory to be able to take the picture.    

Nell

[groom]

I don't think lighthouse either as I don't think the rock is large or flat enough. However, there must have been some reason to build a bridge and a substantial wall. 

[Nick_Ips]

I'm still fairly sure the reason for the wall and bridge is in some way tourism related.

As posted by others, the picture is of the bridge and rock, not something else which is just out of shot.

If there were a lighthouse just to the right, then why is the picture not of a lighthouse, rather than the pathway that leads to it? This assumes that the person taking the picture is 'normal' in the sense they take pictures of 'normal' things - but I say that as the kind of person who may well take a picture of the bridge or rocks (not the lighthouse) because those kind of things sometimes interest me more! The question is whether an Edwardian photographer would use expensive film and photographic paper to take a picture of a mundane feature, rather than the far more impressive lighthouse.

For me the rock (or the view from it) is the attraction, it explains why someone took a picture of it, and why someone went to some effort building a bridge to it. We are talking of something like Giant's Causeway, Smoo cave, Devil's Hole (Jersey), Old Man of Hoy. (not suggesting it is actually any of these)

The only thing which concerns me is that if this was some kind of tourist attraction, then presumably it would still be. But in the internet age, lots of people would have posted pictures of it online... but having done various image searches, nothing similar comes up. Why?

[Spidermonkey]

You make good points, Nick.  I can't help but feel that the rock must have a name - such as Chapel Rock or Queen Bess Rock - but perhaps with erosion, it has been knocked about too much 

[mazi]

I cannot help but notice that in Llandudno there is an artillery school built into the rock faces of the great orme,  googling terms such as coastal artillery or coastal gun emplacements makes me wonder if just round the corner there is a great big gun and this bridge is for carrying the ammunition across, which has been offloaded into the walled area to the right of the bridge

Mike

[ScouseBoy]

I cannot help but notice that in Llandudno there is an artillery school built into the rock faces of the great orme,  googling terms such as coastal artillery or coastal gun emplacements makes me wonder if just round the corner there is a great big gun and this bridge is for carrying the ammunition across, which has been offloaded into the walled area to the right of the bridge

Mike

   The construction in the photo is not strong enough   to carry heavy shells.

[mazi]

I have to add that Solva on the Pembrokeshire coast is in a very similar inlet to this, there are traces of ww1 gun positions to be seen protecting the harbour, although I don't think it was here

Mike

[mazi]

I cannot help but notice that in Llandudno there is an artillery school built into the rock faces of the great orme,  googling terms such as coastal artillery or coastal gun emplacements makes me wonder if just round the corner there is a great big gun and this bridge is for carrying the ammunition across, which has been offloaded into the walled area to the right of the bridge

Mike

   The construction in the photo is not strong enough   to carry heavy shells.

Coastal guns are usually 4 inch especially in ww1, even 9 inch shells can be and were carried by two men, try googling some information