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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 28 July 2008, 09:25:15
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7528165.stm
Some good memories there!
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LIkewise -- many a childhood hour spent on that pier
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It is a big shame this has happened I spent may a summer there and also when visiting my grandparents who live in WSM.
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We just got back from WSM on Friday night after spending 3 days there. We were in the pier arcades Friday afternoon trading in our tickets...at least we saved a few bits and pieces from being burned! lol
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:'( Oh what a shame! :'(
I hope it doesn`t now become like the utter-disgrace that is Brighton pier; unloved, un-restored and a complete eyesore. :(
Surely, in view of their historical and iconic significance, our Victorian piers should benefit from Lottery heritage monies: a better-use than some 'causes' I have seen identified for`same! ::)
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Surely, in view of their historical and iconic significance, our Victorian piers should benefit from Lottery heritage monies: a better-use than some 'causes' I have seen identified for`same! ::)
Here here!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7528165.stm
Some good memories there!
Yet another one then James to join the list of damaged / lost piers like Brighton West! :'( :'(
Great shame as when I lived in Thornbury, Bristol, my ex and our young family would spend many a happy hour there on that pier.
Hopefully they will restore it. :(
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I could see the smoke on the motorway this morning on the way into work (a good 20 miles away), I thought at first something at Avonmouth had gone up switched on the radio and found out it was Weston's Pier. Like others have said here I spent many hours of my childhood wasting money on there, I always like the way you could see the water through the cracks in the floor boards. I think last time I went on there would have been just before it closed for the winter period, the kids last went on there with SWMBO last Thursday.
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Yes I spent a lot of time at Weston Super Mare (still remember cutting my foot open at the marina lol, trust me to find the one piece of glass in there when I jumped into the sea off the bottom of the pier). Long time since I've been back there tho so my memory is a tad hazy lol. No its not early onset senility he he!
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2 hours to burn down, good job no one was in it at the time, very sad.
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OMG :o :o
:( :( :( I loved weston as a kid! Was quite cool as an adult too :o
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WSM ,yes many memories,mostly good.
The sea always seemed to be out for miles and miles .
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Weston Super Mud I think you mean.......always amazed they had a pier when the tide used to go out past the end of it!
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WSM ,yes many memories,mostly good.
The sea always seemed to be out for miles and miles .
Weston on Mud, we always called it -- you had to trog miles over the wet sand to get anywhere near the water --- and if the tide was in you could only get ankle deep !!!!!
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Tragedy. I watched it agog live on SkyNews this morning. Thank god no lives were lost.
I hope they do restore it. It would be a shame for it to go the way the cliff lifts at Scarborough went.
varche
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Heard about it on the wireless today. Even Chris Moyles almost took it seriously. Never been on Weston pier but sympathies nonetheless.
Palace pier in Btn obviously still going but i remember as a kid, 9 or 10 Btn & Hove council offered West Pier for £1 but you had to have the resourses to put it right. Needless to say it's still dropping away slowly. :(
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Oh I am sorry. All those memories now up in smoke :o
Remember the mud flats though, it used to squelch up though your toes as you walked, and did'nt smell too good either :)
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Heard about it on the wireless today. Even Chris Moyles almost took it seriously. Never been on Weston pier but sympathies nonetheless.
Palace pier in Btn obviously still going but i remember as a kid, 9 or 10 Btn & Hove council offered West Pier for £1 but you had to have the resourses to put it right. Needless to say it's still dropping away slowly. :(
Is a shame about the piers,not only Weston super mare burning but a year or so back Southend pier caught fire.Hasting pier has collapsed in part,i believe,and Bogner pier is in dire need of repairStopped the birdman contest there.
As for the west pier, i belive the lottery gave some money for essential repair,then it caught fire.Most ppl i know believe it to be arson.As of now there is going to be a monstrsity called the i360 built by the west pier,to help generate money to restore the pier.(Not holding my breath on this)
Well done that man who called the pier still standing the Palace Pier,rather than Brighton pier(nearly vomitted typing that).
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Heard about it on the wireless today. Even Chris Moyles almost took it seriously. Never been on Weston pier but sympathies nonetheless.
Palace pier in Btn obviously still going but i remember as a kid, 9 or 10 Btn & Hove council offered West Pier for £1 but you had to have the resourses to put it right. Needless to say it's still dropping away slowly. :(
Now you're showing your age Guy, My Great Grand Parents had a wireless.
It's called a car / Truck Radio / Mp3 / Cd Player these days :D :D :D :D
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Heard about it on the wireless today. Even Chris Moyles almost took it seriously. Never been on Weston pier but sympathies nonetheless.
Palace pier in Btn obviously still going but i remember as a kid, 9 or 10 Btn & Hove council offered West Pier for £1 but you had to have the resourses to put it right. Needless to say it's still dropping away slowly. :(
Now you're showing your age Guy, My Great Grand Parents had a wireless.
It's called a car / Truck Radio / Mp3 / Cd Player these days :D :D :D :D
You can get the radio on these then can you????? :P :P :P
My car says it is mp3 compatible, wtf dos that mean, it has a radio and a cd :o long live the 8 track.......... ;D ;D ;D
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WSM ,yes many memories,mostly good.
The sea always seemed to be out for miles and miles .
Yes Optimist I always believed that in fact no sea existed there! ;D ;D :D ;)
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Heard about it on the wireless today. Even Chris Moyles almost took it seriously. Never been on Weston pier but sympathies nonetheless.
Palace pier in Btn obviously still going but i remember as a kid, 9 or 10 Btn & Hove council offered West Pier for £1 but you had to have the resourses to put it right. Needless to say it's still dropping away slowly. :(
Is a shame about the piers,not only Weston super mare burning but a year or so back Southend pier caught fire.Hasting pier has collapsed in part,i believe,and Bogner pier is in dire need of repairStopped the birdman contest there.
As for the west pier, i belive the lottery gave some money for essential repair,then it caught fire.Most ppl i know believe it to be arson.As of now there is going to be a monstrsity called the i360 built by the west pier,to help generate money to restore the pier.(Not holding my breath on this)
Well done that man who called the pier still standing the Palace Pier,rather than Brighton pier(nearly vomitted typing that).
Unfortunately there is very little of the West Pier to restore; it will require basically a complete new structure! :(
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I hope they do restore it. It would be a shame for it to go the way the cliff lifts at Scarborough went.
varche
There is still one cliff lift at Scarborough! The other one is looking sorry for itself though.