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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.
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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