- Title:
- Stereoview of the Menheniot Viaduct, Cornwall
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Brief description:
- Reverse has text: "152. Menheniot Viaduct, Cornwall. / The height of this Viaduct, the most ornamental on the Cornwall Railway, is best seen and appreciated from the valley below. Its appearance is truly grand, stepping with gigantic strides from hill to hill, and dwarfing the tallest trees." In 1845 the Cornwall Railway surveyed a line to link Plymouth with Truro and Falmouth, together with several branches. I K Brunel was the engineer. The viaduct at Menheniot was one of 34 timber fan viaducts built to Brunel's standard design.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Current reproduction location:
- http://archives.cliftonbridge.org.uk/stereoview-of-the-menheniot-viaduct-cornwall-2
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on cream card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/101
- Object production date:
- c.1850s
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1850-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1860-12-31
- Object production person:
- Spreat, W, publisher, 229 High Street, Exeter
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-101.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/010be6a9-a1d4-3810-ba65-0f537e6e19d4
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/010be6a9-a1d4-3810-ba65-0f537e6e19d4, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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