This “Bridge” has always fascinated me. It was pulled by chains along the sea bed on what looks like very fragile legs. I wouldn’t like to have been on it on a stormy day. Here the tide is out so that you can see the entire workings of the bridge which connected Saint-Malo to Saint-Servin from 1873 until 1922. The bridge was closed after being hit by the Norwegian ship, Brawn.
Reminds me of the inventions of W. Heath Robinson
4 comments:
Looks marvellous though how it lasted fifty years is beyond me...
Wow! It does look very flimsy. Lol! A very neat invention though.
Gosh, really quite something and how splendid there was a postcard of it. Thanks for sharing Anji :-)
Caroline: They must have had a lot of rust problems - was WD40 around in those days?
Isobel:I can imagine the squeeky noise which must have gone with it.
Doris: It was a popular postcard subject!
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