LOCAL historian, photograph collector and Voice reader Barrie Doney has no shortage of pictures and stories from Cornwall’s past, which he shares with Voice Newspaper readers every week.

This week’s photograph takes us to a historic picture of the railway bridge near Lostwithiel.

Barrie says of this photograph: "This is the building of a new bridge at Lostwithiel to take the traffic from the by-pass that was being constructed in 1938.

“Many years later it was blown-up because it was deemed unsuitable for the extra weight of the lorries that were on the roads. It was found that the bridge was suitable for the traffic.”