Aberystwyth Uni graduate Courtney Goode talks about Victorian attraction, Egg Rock

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00:00One specific site that I looked at was called Egg Rock.

00:05It is a few miles to the south along the coast and no longer exists.

00:10However, in Victorian times it was a local popular luncheon destination.

00:17It advertised in the local paper.

00:20It had a very unique shape that was distinctly egg-like

00:25and it got its English name from that.

00:29It was known as Egg Rock.

00:31We know that Egg Rock was roughly 7 to 8 meters high

00:36because there is a fascinating photograph

00:39that has a gentleman standing right at the base of it.

00:43Based on his height, we can determine a rough estimate

00:47of how large the stack was during the early 1900s.

00:54We have various reports of when the rock stack disappeared.

01:00We have a newspaper article citing 1907 as the date of the demise.

01:08We also have photographs that are dated 1908 and 1909

01:14which contradict the newspaper.

01:17But in the Kerdagian Museum, we have this wonderful painting

01:20by Alfred Worthington that is dated between 1900 and 1920.

01:27Below says that this stack came down in a winter storm of 1930-1931.

01:35So it has been quite the mystery.

01:38But I can confidently say that it did fall in 1907 based on my research.

01:45The significance of studying this formation gives us insight

01:50into how these rocky coasts are formed and how they erode.

01:56If we can retrace the past and discern how long it's taking

02:03these structures to be built by coastal erosion

02:08and then subsequently fall, we can predict further coastal erosion

02:13along the coastline in the future.

02:16Having local photographs and paintings, sketches,

02:21any visual source along the coastline is really integral

02:27for us to be able to reconstruct this area so we can monitor

02:33coastal change and any adaptation of the area.

02:40If anyone has any visual sources that they would like to send in,

02:46please email them to set at abber.ac.uk.