Tintagel Castle - The Making Of The New Bridge
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2019
- Find out more about the making of a new footbridge at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall.
Follow English Heritage expert, Nichola Tasker, as she reveals how the bridge is being constructed from scratch, from the quarrying of slate from the Cornish landscape through to the manufacture of the steel frame.
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I'm not gonna lie, I am so glad that charities and public entities like English Heritage or Bovington Tank Museum are doing so much promotion on RUclips. This is an excellent platform to show some of the incredible things that we are doing to make sure our history does not die.
I love how you take active steps on educating natural history. Much love xxx
This reminds me of the suspension bridge in Bristol, I really wish everyone well in their endeavours.
If all goes to plan , it will last a very long time. Thank you for sharing the update. 👍🏼
Clifton! Except this is a cantilevered arch construction.
Love that! such a cool design, and love using local resources! *chef's kiss*
Great video, I love how it shows the process it takes to make the materials!
So cool to hear of this project! Tintangel castle is such a mythical place, it's neat that they try to make the bridge fit the landscape :)
It’s just a breathtaking landscape and a place with an amazing history. I‘ll walk over that bridge one day, for sure 😄
Very magnificent. Thankyou EH!🇬🇧✌💕
I would walk across that bridge. It looks very nice!
It is a beautiful bridge.
I wish you good luck!👏🏼
This looks great! Will visitors still have access to the little bay between the cliffs? It's so beautiful when the tide is low and seems a shame to stop access to it!
I think this is a great idea. I can see where many people will be able to have access (when the bridge is done). I was wondering why the choice of using the red color on the trim?
Looks a super bridge.I know it's outside of your control but I was surprised to see the slate splitters with no breathing protection. Pneumoconiosis was common amongst the Welsh slate workers
How stormproof will it be? That spot is awfully exposed?
Maybe you shouldn't go on it during a storm.
Colour me impressed.
Fann here!
It’s sounds alright.
It can get a bit windy there so make sure it isn't going to behave like the Milleium Bridge did at first.
Thats a different issue, assuming you mean Millenium Footbridge in London? That's synchronous lateral excitation, caused by the tendancy for humans footsteps to be synchronised, combined with reponse to movement in the environment simultaneously.
We now know footsteps generally cause interactions with the low lateral frequency resulting in tendancies for a bridge to move, swaying of the bridge caused the people to react in a manner opposite to the sway (with everyone responding to this simultaneously so they didn;t fall over or become unabalanced), exaggerating the issue. Similar to the way everyone moves together when a bus goes round a curve, or a train braking as a couple of examples. Not all that well understood a phenomenon in bridge design prior to this sort of time, and it's sheer capacity for people relative to it's leightweight design is fairly unique.
Solved with the introduction of dampers, which would be likely to be the solution even if design in by modern-day practises (or made heavier/stiffer).
What a shame it won’t be like the old wood and rope bridge - fantastic bounce and sway 😂 Looks lovely and I hope the project proceeds well.
I really like how the British preserve their heritage! Good video.
Apart from knocking down sections of original walls to install this thing...
Wish it wasnt closed until the summer as Ill be in the area in a couple of days :(
I'm interested in what input local people had on the design of the bridge and the other attractions in the Tintagel site. You do call the site Cornish after all, are the Cornish Minority People very involved in Tintagel?
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Was there a masonry bridge at the site in the past?
Hi Michael. You can learn more about the history of Tintagel here:
www.english-heritage.org.uk/members-area/members-magazine/march-2019/march-2019-tintagel/
No, there was a narrow land bridge which later collapsed. There are literary hints that that occurred very soon after Earl Richard built his castle there (it was either under construction or completed in 1233) and the content of "Perlesvaus" puts the collapse between then and 1250.
"English" Heritage. Oh, dear.........Earl Richard wasn't about in 1340. Your'e a century out, and too late! Go to the bottom of the class! PS - why aren't any of the Celtic Dumnonian kings that would have been at Tintagel even mentioned? We DO know who some of them were.
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I went there in May last year and unfortunately the bridge was broken :/ and also the ladders in front of merlin's cave. I am not sure when I will be able to visit there again...
Are the slate tiles for the floor of the bridge..?
Slate is brittle and can crack easily. If they're going to use the slate tiles for the floor, I hope they're prepared for cracks and breakages if people drop things. A friend has a slate floor in her kitchen, and dropping a bowl cracked two tiles.
@@sashineb.2114 Crossed it a few days ago. Some of the tiles were already cracked.
@@BillyF2LJeffs Aw, what a shame. Sorry to hear of this. I'm not surprised, though. Slate for kitchen floors looks very nice, but dropping a pan can mean replacing tiles. I wonder what they will do to address the issue with the bridge?
I would love to work for you
I will never be able to cross that bridge. Watching this on my PC was enough to cause an attack of acrophobia (not kidding)
My first thought! Glad I'm not alone.
Nor me!
What's that song?
Ngl I’m lucky I live near camelford and my best friend lives in delabole so when I feel sad about the ending of merlin I can come here and cry lmao
God the title brought me back to when I had to read Tristan and Iseult in 11th grade
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You may also be interested in this video which shows each stage of the actual building of the bridge.
ruclips.net/video/CGTFVj3aCjM/видео.html
The same as Rimworld
A stone bridge would look much better.
It would but it is very windy so more flexible materials have to be used to account for that, otherwise it could fall.
Sveinbjartur Þór Jónsson I think it is too wide a space for stone, nowhere to support it in the middle..
I thought it was titan gel ... hahahaha im sorry
If the trial erection doesn't work first time, there's some medication I can recommend.
To be quite honest I think this is all unnecessary thing to do.
I totally agree. No viable justification has ever been put forward by EH, and it's £4 million (lowest current estimate) of public money being wasted on further EH vandalism of one of Britain's most important early sites, at a time when another equally valuable facet of Cornish heritage - the Cornish language - has had a paltry government fund of £150,000 cancelled. What EH has been doing to this site, over several years, is nothing short of Disneyfication. Theme park mentality, cheapening a proud history, and it's not history and heritage that interests them (or the National Trust) any more - it's profit, and only profit, that they're after. I note that the EH lady says nothing about the fact that the two 100-ft cantilevers of this bridge will have a 4-inch gap on the centre, 200 feet up. The two halves of the bridge don't meet, and both independent cantilevers will be rock-anchored into some of the most brittle geology to be found in Cornwall (silaceous slate). For how long will that stand up to the movement each cantilever will undergo under Atlantic gale conditions? Especially as the bridge slopes to present its underside to the full force of the prevailing westerlies. It 's not as though EH even owns this site. It doesn't (it doesn't own anything). EH skates over the fact that, long before Earl Richard's 13th century castle, Tintagel was the seasonal stronghold of Celtic Dumnonian kings who, for 300 years, controlled a vast maritime trading network that linked directly with the Byzantine Empire. EH doesn't even name or detail any one of those Celtic kings. But I can (and have done in a recent book). In fact, there is nothing at Tintagel that' is even English. A Celtic stronghold and trading centre before an England ever existed, followed by a Norman castle that was nothing more than a folly to aid one man's (successful) ambitions. It was never out to any practical use.
This is an absolute disgrace ruining an important piece of history. Shame on you.
In what way does this ruin the site? You sound ignorant.
Making the site more accessible is not disgraceful nor is it ruining anything. There once was a bridge, this is simply restoring the intended entry point.
@@LaDivinaLover If anyone's ignorant it's you as you clearly don't have any knowledge on what you're talking about. To quote the words of a notable Cornish historian:
"This bridge is being built on one of the most, if not the most, archaeologically important and sensitive sites in the whole of Cornwall. This bridge will ruin both the look and archaeology dating back a millennia or more if it falls down, which it probably will. Hammering it in to such a sensitive headland is a real risk and will almost certainly damage archaeological remains which could be excavated by archaeologists. The purpose of this bridge is pure money-grabbing by EH, who don't exactly have a good reputation for looking after their sites (eg Chysauster Fogou). We're about to ruin one of our heritage sites, just for the sake of a disgraceful organisation trying to get more money."
He also further went on to say about how the bridge could fall because of the fact that it is being built in to some of the weakest stone you can find.
@Nolwenn Appelbaum Tintagel Island is slate.
@Nolwenn Appelbaum The island the bridge is connected to, Tintagel Island, is made out of loose slate meaning that the bridge is likely to collapse.