If it wasn’t for Victorian Britain would we ever think to do this now? Create a structure that reaches out into the sea for no, modern, reason other than because it looks cool.

The sensation of walking over the sea, peering through the wooden boards to the sloshing water below is one of those unique things we experience as children that stays with us and is just as exciting when we’re adults.

The answer is probably no because we don’t seem to romanticise in the same way anymore.