New Pavilion tea rooms at Bangor Pier to open soon
After extensive work on the Pier, the Pierhead and refurbished Tearoom will reopen as a family-friendly cafe and evening venue offering stunning views of the Menai Strait and surrounding area.
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How HMS Leigh – aka Southend Pier – helped the WWII effort
If you’ve ever strolled along Southend Pier, you probably didn’t realise you were walking on the deck of a British warship. The pier, codenamed HMS Leigh, organised 3,367 convoys over five and a half years.
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Setback for Withernsea Pier and Promenade Association as funding bid is rejected
Torkel Larsen, chair of the WPPA, said: “Having fulfilled all the requirements they set us we were quite confident that we would get the funding from RDPE, and then out of the blue we had a letter saying sorry but we have decided not to fund you because it does not meet with our national priorities.”
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£50,000 Coastal Revival Fund grant enables multi-million plan for Clacton Pier’s Jolly Roger pavilion
Now that the plans have been finalised, there is the simple matter of raising enough money to pay for the Jolly Roger’s makeover. And £4 million has been totalled as the final bill. The revamp is expected to take 18 months to complete and will turn the old building into a two floor venue with many different uses.
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Update on rebuilding progress at Totland Bay Pier
There is planning permission for a house to be built at the end of the pier and the cafe will also be rebuilt, probably next winter. Public access will be permitted as soon as possible once health and safety restrictions have been lifted.
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Worthing Pier remains open during safety maintenance works
According to Worthing Borough Council, the scaffolding was put up due to improvements to the pier’s fire safety systems which are due to be completed by October.
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Tours of Eastboure Pier’s camera obscura this weekend!
There will be an opportunity to see Eastbourne’s famous Camera Obscura once again during all four days of Airbourne this week. There will be a tour every 20 minutes starting at 9am with the last one at 10.40am. Tours start at the bottom of the steps by the Ocean Suite towards the end of Eastbourne Pier.
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Ryde goes ‘Under The Pier’ again on the 30th August!
Under the Pier is the Isle of Wight’s end of summer celebration of the curious world and incredible marine life under Ryde Pier. Each year, on a low, low tide, hundreds of people and dozens of marine species come together, with the help of a raft of experts, for this mad, magic, narrowest and often wettest of outdoor adventures.
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Southampton’s Royal Pier redevelopment is scrapped
A £450m waterfront development deal has been terminated by a council after five years. The proposed Royal Pier Waterfront scheme would include a hotel and a casino on land reclaimed from the River Test in Southampton. Southampton City Council said it had ended an agreement signed in 2014 with developer RPW Southampton Ltd but did not explain why.
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Plans are already afoot for Bognor Birdman in 2020
Organisers of the International Bognor Birdman said they ‘ran out of time’ to meet the requirements to run this year’s event but insisted it will go ahead next year as they had learned from their mistakes.
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A star-studded week at Bognor Regis Pier!
After the Top Gear presenters were spotted filming there, Liam Gallagher samples the delights of Bognor Regis!
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8 million euro restoration of Blankenberge Pier gets go-ahead
The oldest pier on the Atlantic coast of Europe, a masterpiece of the Art Deco style whose construction dates back to 1884, will finally be completely refurbished.
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Bradley Walsh, former star of the Cromer Pier show, declares it ‘the greatest place on the planet’!
Mr Walsh, who took part in Cromer Pier Summer Shows from 1986-88, called it the “greatest place on the planet” and recalled how he’d stumble home from post-end-of-show drinks as the crab boats went out – or even later, as they came in.
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New Pier View Bar opens at Southwold Pier
An old ballroom at an iconic pier has been reopened as a seaside bar – boasting stunning views of one of Suffolk’s best coastlines and creating four new jobs.
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Local campaign for the redevelopment of Southampton’s Royal Pier
Kuti Miah, owner of Kuti’s Brasserie, an Indian and Asian restaurant at the Royal Pier, Mayflower Park, is to call on local residents, businesses and councillors to come together in a bid to raise money and find investors to develop the waterfront. The news comes as the £450m plans for a hotel, a casino, 730 homes and a gourmet market at the site of the derelict Royal Pier have been scrapped.
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Melbourne Central Pier sinks
Hundreds of diners were evacuated from the pier as the structure failed a safety test.
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Glastonbury-on-sea Pier to return for 2020!
Festivalgoers will be given the option of renting a pre-pitched tent before they arrive instead of bringing their own tent. The tents will be blue and white, which will supposedly look like the ocean around Glastonbury-on-sea’s Victorian pier when seen from a distance.
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