This looks serious. Spring tides from tomorrow and quite a serious looking storm on the way too. It could easily back up to here and wash away a fair bit more.
There will have to be report, a survey and a drawing prepared, followed by a financial assessment, insurance assessment, scheme, specification, analysis, MO report, HSE report, by which time the whole bank will have been breached. Time was Mr Tresidder or John Cogan simply said, 'can't have that ... Fix it', and the gang got on with it and knew what they were doing. Even apathy is too much of a strain. I simply do not get why it takes a member of the public to spot this. This is not an overnight occurrence.
To be honest, I do not know, but there were a number of drainage systems here of very old reclamation projects. This whole stretch was waterlogged and even open water at one time, similar to Marazion Marshes, of which it was a part. I have a copy plan of the mining area to the eastern end of this swathe. It stretched from near the railyards to the marshes. The drainpipe could be a part of the road 'stabilisation' drainage of the original road, which I think is around 1835, laid over the carriage track.
I have just discovered that these pipes are a part of the 1852 drainage culverts and pipes to keep the embankment stable for the track. It may be that some of them were replaced or added in the 1871 alterations and improvements. Despite agricultural land having been reclaimed, much of the track was laid on ground that was marsh running down to the sea.
It is like Chess. Long term planning required. Before I had a go at the map itself, I intended to cover as many old texts as possible that related to this sea front. I now have to find that Mine map. It is here somewhere.
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