[video=youtube;gkDR2aQKzSA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkDR2aQKzSA&feature=youtu.be[/video] only took this yesterday up on the south downs towards Beachy Head. If you have not been aware of the news today,where I spend a lot of my time is now burnt
Yes, awful news. When things like those old piers go they're gone forever and we lose a little but important piece of the peoples that we once were.
It's a real shame. Does anyone know who owns this pier and weather it is likely to be rebuilt/repaired? Too many of these historic piers are falling to ruin and being left in that state.
I can never understand how these structures were put up all over the place by Victorians but now cost about £30m each to restore.
I wish we'd build a few more too. Shanklin sea front, for example, just doesn't look right without the pier it lost in '87. I have fond memories of that pier from many a childhood summer.
Clacton for me mate, for some reason both sets of grandparents migrated there from West London on retirement. And the pier is still going strong.
One the few unfortunately. The same aunt & uncle I had that retired to Shanklin previously lived near Southend, so also remember how exciting it was to ride a train on that pier as a young 'un. There was something magical about piers (Morgan excluded) in our day that the kids today probably wouldn't get. I like a walk up and down Bournemouth pier every so often these days.
I was gonna put up a post about how I just don't get how people are attached to 'piers'. I just thought they are places that sell seaside tat and house overpriced amusement arcades and greasy fish and chips kiosks. But Uber, your post got me to thinking if probably there is a lot more than that. Thanks bruv....one of the things that make this board a great place....still
Piers bring back so many memories of days out by the sea when we were kids, which is probably why they are held in such affection. I regularly visited all the south coast resorts as a kid in the 60s with my mum and dad in their Ford Anglia. Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, Margate and even Clacton and Southend to the east. The sad thing is so many of the resorts have suffered such decline over the years, Margate in particular. Yesterday's fire was more of our childhood memories going up in smoke. Having said that Beachy Head and the South Downs is one of the most beautiful places you can visit and me and the missus regularly head out that way on a sunny Sunday and finish up having a meal in the pub at the top of Beachy Head watching the evening sunset. On a calm sunny day the view from the cliffs is unreal, the sky just merges into the sea. Such a shame it will be forever spoiled by a proposed wind-farm that has just been approved...
Eastbourne Pier blaze: Arson probe launched by police Breaking news A fire that ripped through Eastbourne Pier is now feared to have been started deliberately. Read on at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28610853 It's half term, the kids get bored don't they.
I went to university in Eastbourne (Uni of Brighton - Chelsea School up on Hillbrow) and spent 4 great years there. I also spent many nights queuing up for Atlantis nightclub at the end of the pier........so bizarre seeing the front end up in smoke. Hopefully Eastbourne council and Co will pull together to rebuild it bigger and better. Great place to be in the summer months and so important for the tourism it brings in.
