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The End of the Pier Show
GreyDesk Started conversation Jun 23, 2004
Extending the theme first inroduced in an earlier one of my journals - F63554?thread=233745 - another section of the Brighton West Pier has collapsed into the sea 
This time it was the middle section that went down - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3834005.stm
This was the bit that partially collapsed in the winter gales of 2002/03, then burnt down, then collapsed some more. Now it looks like the whole lot has gone into the sea during today's storms 
I'll be popping down shortly to take a look at the wreckage.
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broelan Posted Jun 23, 2004
What a shame. 
I hate it when irreplaceable things are lost. The story says it was Grade 1 listed, what does that mean?
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 23, 2004
It's the same kind of thing as being in the National Register of Historic Places broe.
http://accessibility.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp?wci=Node&wce=7260
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 23, 2004
Oh look who's turned up.
*Hangs up a big sign for EVERYONE to read - this means you*
DO NOT FEED THE TROLL
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GreyDesk Posted Jun 23, 2004
There is quite a nice set of photos here that set what has happened in some sort of context - http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/pictures/galleries/newsid_2615000/2615015.stm
The first is as it was in it's heyday.
Pictures 2 and 3 show it's poition on Brighton seafront and the state of decay that it had reached.
Pictures 4 and 6 show the first collapse of middle section which happened 18 months ago. This bit then burnt down, but didn't collapse any further. Well it's this section that is now sitting in the sea. The legs supporting the whole structure gave way dumping eveything in the waves.
As for the future, well, that's probably not as bad as it looks. The whole of the middle of the pier would have had to be replaced in a restoration as it was wrecked before today's collapse.
It's still not a nice thing to happen though
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Secretly Not Here Any More Posted Jun 23, 2004
Collapsed, then burnt down, then sank??
*stifled laughter*
Severe bad luck...
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GreyDesk Posted Jun 23, 2004
Yes, it's not been a great couple of years for piers down here.
The other pier had a pretty major fire as well... 
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azahar Posted Jun 23, 2004
I've only been to Brighton once, just before Christmas and the centre of town looked like a fairy tale.
I loved that pier! How sad that it has gone.
az
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GreyDesk Posted Jun 23, 2004
The first fire on the West Pier that took out the main building, plus the small fire on the Palace Pier were electrical faults. Not a great surprise that when you think about the corrosive effects of sea spray that the whole thing gets bathed in on a regular basis.
The second fire, which seemed to smoulder for weeks by the way, was almost certainly arson. It happened in the middle of the night at club chucking out time, and the tide happened to be out at that time so a firework or the like could be thrown from the beach and it would have hit that part of the pier.
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