Question About Piers

[Mendoza]

Yesterday I went to the Quadrant pub, and on the wall was a picture of a PIer in Brighton, with 2 more Piers in the background

So i learned for the 1st time that Brighton had 3 Piers, the 3rd called the Chain Pier

from the photo it was about where the concorde club is, i think

i just want to know about it, what was it for and when did it disappear?

 

[Gwylan]

Fell down during a storm in 1896, you can read about it here.

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__5515.aspx

 

[goldstone]

Anyone with any knowledge of Brighton knows about the chain pier. Go to a bookstore or a library and pick up any book about the history of Brighton or old photos of Brighton. Probably plenty of stuff on t'internet if you look in Google.

 

[The Large One]

Yesterday I went to the Quadrant pub, and on the wall was a picture of a PIer in Brighton, with 2 more Piers in the background

So i learned for the 1st time that Brighton had 3 Piers, the 3rd called the Chain Pier

from the photo it was about where the concorde club is, i think

i just want to know about it, what was it for and when did it disappear?

I assumed (wrongly) that knowledge of the Chain Pier was automatically written into the DNA of every Brightonian at birth.

 

[CHAPPERS]

There was that weird train too, the one that was in the sea.

 

[Gwylan]

There was that weird train too, the one that was in the sea.

You mean the Daddy Longlegs train

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__5603.aspx

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Some of the Chain Pier reappeared last summer during a particularly low tide.

The Chain Pier was opened in 1823 and was originally a landing platform. At that time, before the railways had taken off, Brighton was the quickest and most direct route to Londinium.

People started to take to the pier and it became extremely popular to walk on. It was the first example of large piles.

Originally the owners of the new West Pier had planned to buy the Chain Pier, knock it down and build their pier on the same site, but they did not get permission.

Alas, the Chain Pier was lost to storms in 1896.

There are many good websites about this...

www.piers.co.uk and so on...

Particularly interested in this topic, which I chose for my dissertation.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Pier

Good design, but not a patch on the creations of Eugenius Birch.

 

[junior]

Ive got a peice of the Chain Pier at home.

It has been passed through the family for decades.

Not realy sure why anyone bothered to keep it,but its quite cool anyway.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Ive got a peice of the Chain Pier at home.

It has been passed through the family for decades.

Not realy sure why anyone bothered to keep it,but its quite cool anyway.

If it is a bolt then your family may well be the reason it was washed away in that storm. Infidel!!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

You can still see the foundations for the railway line at low tide.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Some of the Chain Pier reappeared last summer during a particularly low tide.

Indeed - I took photos of me walking around on the stumps, thereby fulfilling a long-held ambition to take a walk on the Chain Pier. Their reappearance was a quietly impressive and not uneerie moment - large bits of wood and iron screwed into the seabed by navvies in 1822.

 

[Man of Harveys]

If it is a bolt then your family may well be the reason it was washed away in that storm. Infidel!!

Just look what they did!

 

[REDLAND]

You can still see the foundations for the railway line at low tide.

It does look quite the white knuckle ride ..

 

[Trufflehound]

It was the first example of large piles.

<Insert joke here.>

 

[Uncle Buck]

There are still 3 Piers in Brighton...

 

[Brovion]

Some of the Chain Pier reappeared last summer during a particularly low tide.

Are there any pictures of that re-appearance?

Edit: Just read MoH's post. Colin, any chance you could post them?

 

[Man of Harveys]

There are still 3 Piers in Brighton...

And a very happy birthday to one of them! Many happy returns young man.

 

[Trufflehound]

There are still 3 Piers in Brighton...

Yes, but one of them is a broken down old wreck...






...and another one burned down.

Happy birthday.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Are there any pictures of that re-appearance?

Edit: Just read MoH's post. Colin, any chance you could post them?

Possibly, my limited techie skills permitting - but they're on my PC at home. I'll try to post from there tomorrow. Sorry.