This shot recreation isn't ideal - it was taken from a completely different spot for a start - but it quite nicely illustrates the change that 2008's quay improvement works have had on the St Martins Higher Town quay - both wider and longer by a significant amount.
There's not too many years between these two shots (only eight) and not too much change visible either. It's the view from half way up the hill on Gugh, looking down to Black Point, over Porth Conger on St Agnes. The new quay is visible in both, with the improvements that have been made in 2008 quite obvious in the latter shot.
I find this "little" change quite saddening - the crumbling of the little old quay on St Agnes, in front of the Turks Head. I'm not sure what caused this significant decay - I looked back at some shots from 2006 and can see it there too, so at least it wasn't caused by all the recent work to improve the new quay. But it definitely looks significant enough that it can't just have been weather damage, can it? At least it's not been destroyed as thoroughly as the old quay in Old Town, on St Marys - which has all but disappeared!
This is a view that you would hope hasn't changed that much in 20 years - considering both of these castles have stood (or in King Charles Castle's case, laid in ruin) for hundreds of years so far. It's a nice view though, showing the older castle on the top of the hill, along with the (relatively) new castle at the bottom which was constructed from the latter's stones.
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