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The End of the End of the Pier Show
GreyDesk Started conversation Aug 10, 2004
It now looks like it's curtains for the old girl. The damage wrought by storms, decay and arson are just to much; and that now there is nothing left worth saving 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3550168.stm
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 11, 2004
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azahar Posted Aug 11, 2004
Somewhere I have photos of the pier from my one and only trip to Brighton about 14 years ago. I remember thinking that it had quite a 'spookily' austere beauty to it. A ghost pier. Sad to think of it totally gone.
az
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riotact : like a phoenix from the ashes Posted Aug 11, 2004
sometimes you just have to let go.
this pier (and the newer one) were on tv here recently in a documentary about a schoolboy's one-week stay with an english family (a traditional rite of passage for french teenagers). i thought of GD while watching.
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powerfulshinydero Posted Aug 11, 2004
I WANNA SEE FREINDS FIXTURE FIRST
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GreyDesk Posted Aug 11, 2004
On a brighter note, there have been some wonderful ideas for Brighton's regeneration.
For example this one as a replacement for the West Pier. Which now of course has a better chance of happening - http://www.arosltd.com/projects.php?id=25
Then of course there is the set of socking great big tower blocks by Frank Gehry that could get built on the site of an old dire sports centre on Hove seafront - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3026837.stm
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parrferris Posted Aug 11, 2004
Don't like the Gehry thing any more than any of his other stuff, but the pier is cool. I've always thought we needed some new 21st century piers.
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The End of the End of the Pier Show
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- 4: riotact : like a phoenix from the ashes (Aug 11, 2004)
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