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For anyone that might enjoy an amusing seaside and pier book, I'd recommend pierreview.co.uk by Jon Bounds and Danny Smith. They attempt to visit "all the surviving pleasure piers" in two weeks, which interestingly they number at 55
Frank F | 11.04.23 - 7:19 a.m. | #
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I nominate you for the Pier Laureate.
Looks like a trip to Fawlty Towers this year, then.
Jimmy | 11.04.23 - 7:23 a.m. | #
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With 21 still to visit I hope you're not putting yourself under too much "pier pressure"!
IGMC
Rob Gullen | 11.04.23 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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I've been to Aberystwyth Pier, which claims still to exist though much shortened by storm damage.
dg writes: So have I [updates list]
Ian | 11.04.23 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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A friend who I quiz with once introduced me to one of their friends at a party as a friend they quiz with whose specialist subjects are murderers and pier files. The woman looked at me aghast a repeated back "murderers and paedophiles!?!"
Mark | 11.04.23 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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The word "pier" has now lost all meaning.
Scott | Homepage | 11.04.23 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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My happiest childhood memories are of Broadstairs jetty, not a pier, but another line of enquiry you might follow one day. A mere stub, but offering a court orchestra run by a Cecil Somebody; his surname escapes me after 75 years or so. Here length (Southend) doesn’t equate with enjoyment.
Bruce Perkins | 11.04.23 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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Is there a problem with today's formatting? It's appearing in that text size known as "too small for old eyes" on my mobile phone.
Yesterday (and previous days) are ok.
dg writes: Some browsers hate tickboxes, sorry.
Simon | Homepage | 11.04.23 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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The NPS seem to have a unfathomable definition of a pier. Why is Folkestone Harbour Arm a pier but Dover Marina pier not a pier? Who can tell.
Interested to know what other years the society had announced before getting around to doing Piers
Ian | 11.04.23 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Started reading the list and was suprised to find Shanklin Pier was not in the Isle of Wight section as I have been there at least twice. A bit of searching and I discover it is no more. I wonder if there should be a Piers Lost in Our Lifetimes section.
ap | 11.04.23 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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Intrigued by your question mark, I searched for Totland pier on street view. If there's a less impressive seaside structure in the country, I don't want to hear about it
Ian | 11.04.23 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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As an Essex Man, I approve of (and am intrigued by) you locating Southend-On-Sea pier in East Anglia, rather than the South East (as the National Piers Society appears to have done).
Will | 11.04.23 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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Another excellent example of highlighting another aspect of British life. Describing a geographical region simply as 'North East' or 'South West' demonstrates an England-centric approach - which of course, is what you would expect. As a Scot by birth these things jump out.
Stuart R | 11.04.23 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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I would add Banjo Pier at Looe, which was designed by Joseph Thomas to stop the harbour silting up with sand from the beach.
It has the shape of a banjo and still works to this day. But don't expect any amusements or facilities on it. Good for fishing from, and perambulating on.
Petras409 | 11.04.23 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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What about Dover's three piers?
Prince Of Wales
Admiralty
Marina Curve
Have you done any of them?
Karl, Dover | 11.04.23 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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Hythe Pier must be due a visit.
Andrew S | 11.04.23 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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Hythe Pier in Hampshire is very "you" I feel. Quirky, mini-electric trains have been re-habilitated by the local "men's shed". They clatter down the ricketty pier structure, to meet the regular-but-threatened foot-passenger ferries from Southampton.
Across the Solent, Totland Pier certainly exists and has been refurbished, but the promised café at each end both look to be entering the private realm as holiday accommodation. The debate is rumbling on.
cau1khead | 11.04.23 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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The NPS seem to have a unfathomable definition of a region as well. Cleethorpes and Skegness listed in the North East (of England)?!
Jimbo | 11.04.23 - 11:00 a.m. | #
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What about Erith Deep Wharf? You can walk down it and it's London's longest pier.
Paul S | 11.04.23 - 11:19 a.m. | #
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Excellent pier review !!
Martin Bayes | 11.04.23 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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Dover?
Kevin Hennessy | 11.04.23 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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If you wouldn’t have done it like that, feel free to contact the National Piers Society https://piers.org.uk/contact
diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.04.23 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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Disappointed nobody’s yet given their pier total.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.04.23 - 12:47 p.m. | #
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34, including Saltburn which you've not reached.
ap | 11.04.23 - 1:09 p.m. | #
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Ahh you’ve gotta love Norfolk, Virginia pier 😉
Joe | 11.04.23 - 1:14 p.m. | #
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My total is only about 6, but I spent the first third of my life on and around Falmouth's Prince of Wales Pier, and have visited it many times since!
Cornish Cockney | 11.04.23 - 1:19 p.m. | #
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40 currently - if summer plans for North Wales holiday come off then should be up to 45 (and am reminded must book trip to Isle of Man)
Paul | 11.04.23 - 1:45 p.m. | #
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Rachel | 11.04.23 - 2:42 p.m. | #
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7 for me, including Saltburn which is a special place to me as it is where my Grandma, who passed yesterday, will have her ashes scattered. It's a lovely pier.
Jack | 11.04.23 - 2:52 p.m. | #
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As one who has visited Helensburgh Pier - don't bother.
David B | 11.04.23 - 2:58 p.m. | #
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32 visited.
Can never resist a pier stroll, but having reached the far end I've seldom walked back to shore without wondering (silently) whether if was worth the effort.
Frank F | 11.04.23 - 3:27 p.m. | #
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About 32, but in quite a few cases, not since a small boy. That total does include the Ramsey Pier Tramway though (but not those now gone, such as Margate - twisted spectacularly by storms in the winter of 1978.
Man of Kent | 11.04.23 - 3:40 p.m. | #
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Counting the ones I've walked on, only about 10 for me, but including Weston (Revo, in its old guise as the Seaquarium), Clevedon, and Llandudno.
The Seaquarium at Weston (now the Revo Kitchen & Terrace apparently) never was much of a pier.
The Birnbeck pier at Weston has been derelict for ages and it is still in a perilous state, but it might just be saved. I'm impressed if you've been on it.
Andrew | 11.04.23 - 5:42 p.m. | #
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Having rechecked my photos of Weston-super-Mare, ah, no I haven't been on Birnbeck Pier.
Also I see I walked within five metres of the Revo/Seaquarium Pier but never actually stood on it, dammit.
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diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.04.23 - 5:55 p.m. | #
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Malcolm of Kent | 11.04.23 - 6:19 p.m. | #
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What, no Wigan? tsk
Al__S | 11.04.23 - 6:24 p.m. | #
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22, but there are some guesses in those, I.e presumptions I must have been taken on as a kid.
Paul | 11.04.23 - 7:51 p.m. | #
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Curious to see 3 Weston-super-Mate piers - as someone who’s there twice a week I was under the impression that Birnbeck was totally inaccessible and never even heard of Revo
Euan | 11.04.23 - 8:50 p.m. | #
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Ah, Revo is the old SeaAquarium - that makes sense
Euan | 11.04.23 - 8:51 p.m. | #
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As a citizen of Southend-on-Sea where the longest pleasure pier in the world is situated, I am proud to report that the National Piers Society recently voted it "Pier of the Year 2023"!
The full story is here.
John Simmons | 11.04.23 - 9:50 p.m. | #
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Apparently piers built from stone are disqualified otherwise there would be hundreds more.
Kev | 12.04.23 - 2:11 a.m. | #
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I have visited all the piers in Belgium.
All one of them.
Dan | 12.04.23 - 6:09 a.m. | #
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I've been on 8 that I can definitely remember (plus the now derelict West Pier at Brighton). Although I expect I also went on several others on long-forgotten childhood seaside holidays.
Alan S | 12.04.23 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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0/63. Well done to me.
Al B | Homepage | 12.04.23 - 11:57 a.m. | #
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Where do jetties end and piers begin, discuss.
Mark Norrington | 19.04.23 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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