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CoastSeries 10, Ingenious IslesIngenious Isles

Coast explores why we're at our most ingenious and inventive on the edges of our isles.

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The Cleddau Bridge which collapsed during construction and changed the way box girder bridges were built around the world.

Coast series 10, episode 3: Ingenious Isles

  • Nick visits the tide bell at Cemaes Bay, a bell operated by high tide that creates music.
  • Nick Crane is on an island of absolute ingenuity – Anglesey
  • Tessa takes a Leonard Plugge-style trip down the promenade at Fécamp in a 1928 Packard Roadster
  • Tessa takes a Leonard Plugge-style trip down the promenade at Fécamp in a 1928 Packard Roadster
  • Keith Mayall was one of fisher-boys who changed out of their work-wear and into elaborate suits they designed themselves
  • Keith Mayall was one of fisher-boys who reinvented themselves at the weekends.
  • HMS M33 in it's entire dazzle camouflaged glory.
  • Dick Strawbridge aboard HMS M33 in it's entire dazzle camouflaged glory.
  • Brendan Walker
  • The Cleddau Bridge which collapsed during construction and changed the way box girder bridges were built around the world.

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