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 West Pier concert hall, 1995
The West Pier on 11th Janurary 2003, showing the collapse of the concert hall, before the fire.
The West Pier on fire, March 28, 2003.
The West Pier in January 2006, after the most recent collapse.
Distant view of the West Pier, Nov. 2006
The Pavilion at the South end, Nov. 2006
Close-up on the remains of the concert hall The West Pier is a pier in Brighton, England. It was built in 1866 by Eugenius Birch and has been closed and deteriorating since 1975, awaiting renovation. It was Brighton's second pier, joining The Royal Suspension Chain Pier of 1823, and it is one of only two Grade 1 listed piers in the UK, the other being Clevedon Pier. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 275 pixelsFull resolution (1372 × 471 pixel, file size: 178 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 536 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 686 pixel, file size: 419 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The West Pier at Brighton on Thursday 2nd November 2006. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 536 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 686 pixel, file size: 419 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The West Pier at Brighton on Thursday 2nd November 2006. ...
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Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 536 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 686 pixel, file size: 517 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The West Pier at Brighton on Thursday 2nd November 2006. ...
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Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ...
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Eugenius Birch was a 19th Century English naval architect, engineer and pier builder. ...
The Royal Suspension Chain Pier was the first pier built in Brighton, England. ...
Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
Clevedon Pier is a seaside pier in the town of Clevedon, on the English side of the estuary of the river Severn. ...
Plans by the charity the West Pier Trust, which now owns the pier, to renovate it with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund, were opposed by some local residents. The local media reported that a major concern was the impact of commercial operations on the shore that were apparently required to help fund the project. The Noble brothers, owners of the Palace Pier, joined the objectors, having originally been supporters of the restoration scheme (the 1996 Year of the Pier was launched from the Palace Pier). Their reported point of view was that subsidised rebuilding, were it to happen, would represent unfair competition. A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers. ...
The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier is a pleasure pier in Brighton, England. ...
The West Pier had been cut off from the shore (partly deliberately, for safety reasons) since 1975, but the West Pier trust offered regular tours of it until the structure suffered a serious partial collapse during a storm on December 29, 2002, when a walkway connecting the concert hall and pavilion fell into the sea. On January 20, 2003 a further collapse saw the destruction of the concert hall in the middle of the pier. On 28 March 2003 the pavilion at the end of the pier caught fire. Firefighters were unable to save the building from destruction because the collapsed walkway prevented them from reaching it. The cause of the fire remains unknown. On May 12, 2003, another fire broke out, consuming most of what was left of the concert hall. Arson was suspected: the West Pier Trust refers to the fires as the work of "professional arsonists". On June 23, 2004 high winds caused the middle of the pier to collapse completely. December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 2 days remaining. ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
May 12 is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Despite all these setbacks, the West Pier Trust remained adamant that they would soon begin full restoration work. Finally, in December 2004, the Trust conceded defeat, after their plans were rejected by the Heritage Lottery Fund, in part because of problems with achieving the required "matched funding" from outside sources. Subsequent plans to restore only the oldest, structural parts of the pier were eventually rejected by English Heritage. However, in September 2005 the Trust revealed in their newsletter that they were forming further plans to rebuild the original structure with help from private funding. English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ...
In December 2005 the last remaining physical structure, the "little white hut" was lost when strong winds broke it away into the sea. Ironically, when the rest of pier had been intact, the hut had been said to be in serious threat of falling into the sea; yet it was the last piece to remain.
In Spring 2006, the West Pier Trust announced a new plan to fund the restoration of the pier: a 183-metre observation tower, the i360, to be built on the West Pier promenade deck. The tower is planned to carry 100 visitors at a time to a viewing platform 150 metres above sea level. The projected cost of the tower is £15 to £20 million and it would take two to three years to build. A ticket would cost around £8 and the Trust expects around half a million paying visitors each year. The i360 attraction is due to start construction in July 2007 [2] The i360 is a 183m observation tower to be constructed for the Brighton seafront to stand at the foot of the remains of the West Pier. ...
Popular culture
The West Pier (1952) is the first book in the Gorse Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Patrick Hamilton (March 17, 1904 - September 23, 1962) was an English playwright and novelist. ...
The exterior of the West Pier features prominently in the film Carry On Girls, in which a beauty contest is supposed to take place in the Pier's theatre. It is also featured in many of the other films made or set in Brighton. Carry On Girls is the twenty-fifth Carry On film, released in Britain in 1973. ...
Films featuring Brighton The town of Brighton has been featured in the following films: Bank Holiday (1938) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946) Robert Hamer Brighton Rock (1947) John Boulting Genevieve (1953) Henry Cornelius The Chalk Garden (1963) Smokescreen (1964) Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) On a Clear Day...
The West Pier was featured in the 1998 television drama by Lynda La Plante, Killer Net. Lynda La Plante (born Lynda Titchmarsh on 15 March 1946) is a British author, screenwriter, and erstwhile actress (her performances in Rentaghost and other programmes were under her stage name of Lynda Marchal), best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series. ...
The 1969 film Oh! What A Lovely War had many scenes set on the West Pier. Oh! What A Lovely War began life in 1963 as a stage musical by Joan Littlewood and her London Theatre Workshop based on a book by the historian Alan Clark. ...
See also The National Piers Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting and sustaining interest in the preservation and continued enjoyment of seaside piers. ...
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