i360 buggered

[Thunder Bolt]

As an alternative, Sky Garden at the top of the Walkie-Talkie building (20 Fenchurch Street) offers fantastic views over London. Can see all the way to Wembley. Best of all it's FREE!

https://skygarden.london/booking

I don't get invited to parties

Just go to the Racecourse in Brighton, where you can get exactly the same view, as the doughnut on a stick, without the vertigo.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Fantasist!

you got the lube, i got the time
regards
DR

 

[halbpro]

Nice one. I might just do that then, once they've fixed it so it can go above 50ft again.

You also have to go at specific times, basically off peak. Details are on their website.

 

[mikeyjh]

Quite. New estimates, based on the opening weeks, have been announced that they believe the loan could be repaid in six years, not 25.

I'm not sure it's a terribly reliabe forecast to extrapolate the figures 1 month after opening, in the middle of summer, for the next few years....

 

[Notters]

I've always been a fan of Spinnaker Tower, at Gun Wharf Quay.
There's so much to see from the top, that's before you even look into the distance!

There's no way this tower can have the same appeal, it's always struck me as a bit of an oddity.
Which I guess is in keeping with Brighton.

I think your confused. How are there lots of thing to see in the dump that is Portsmouth, but not in Brighton?

Is its POSSIBLE to see the Spinnaker Tower from the i360?

n.b. - please don't allow this questions to lead into a 'can you see the Isle of Wight from Brighton' binfest

I imagine you will be able to, but you'd need binoculars because it's small.

And of course you can see the Isle of Wight from Brighton. Some days it's very clear. Who would question this?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I think your confused. How are there lots of thing to see in the dump that is Portsmouth, but not in Brighton?



I imagine you will be able to, but you'd need binoculars because it's small.

And of course you can see the Isle of Wight from Brighton. Some days it's very clear. Who would question this?

The Isle of Wight, Chichester harbour, Hayling Island, Southampton Water etc. The view from the Spinnaker Tower is infinitely more interesting than from Brighton.

 

[Notters]

The Isle of Wight, Chichester harbour, Hayling Island, Southampton Water etc. The view from the Spinnaker Tower is infinitely more interesting than from Brighton.

Each to their own. Most of what you can see is slums.

 

[hart's shirt]

Bruno did get on it ready...but it never got off the ground and was evacuated.

Yet more problems stopping the Albion from going up.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Each to their own. Most of what you can see is slums.

I don't think you've been to Portsmouth recently. Yes, there are poorer areas, as there is in Brighton, but it isn't slums everywhere.

 

[The Albion Roar]

I'm not sure it's a terribly reliabe forecast to extrapolate the figures 1 month after opening, in the middle of summer, for the next few years....

The point was about it being not only about sales so far, but also based on advance sales of 'flight' tickets and restaurant bookings.

Not a perfect way to measure, but an indication of the start it's made.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

I've always been a fan of Spinnaker Tower, at Gun Wharf Quay.

There's so much to see from the top, that's before you even look into the distance



Just back from a break in the New Forest with missus and teenagers
Drove through Portsmouth twice
They couldn't see the Spinnaker Tower there or back ffsake

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Whether people like the i360 or not, it's in the interests of the city that it should be a success. The Council will make money, increased footfall will make the rather run-down Preston Street area more prosperous, and if there is ever to be new West Pier, the i360 will almost certainly have a major part to play. Personally I think it's ugly and if it had been up to me it would never have been built. But now it's there I want it to make pots of dosh. And since the people behind it have put around £6m of their own dough into it, you have to assume they believe it will.

The only people who take pleasure in any problems it may have must be Palace fans.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

[QUOTE=Not Andy Naylor

The only people who take pleasure in any problems it may have must be Palace fans.[/QUOTE



Or local tax payers.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Whether people like the i360 or not, it's in the interests of the city that it should be a success. The Council will make money, increased footfall will make the rather run-down Preston Street area more prosperous, and if there is ever to be new West Pier, the i360 will almost certainly have a major part to play.

There will NEVER be a 'new West Pier' while there's a self-serving West Pier 'Trust' involved. Last time I saw that bitch from the West Pier 'Trust' on the telly, she was flogging off the pier's Victorian wrought ironwork to the shrewdie dealers from rubbish daytime TV show 'Salvage Hunters'. Mind you, the bloke from the Duke Of York's on the same edition of the same show wasn't any better. Selling Brighton By The Pound. Disgusting people.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

There will NEVER be a 'new West Pier' while there's a self-serving West Pier 'Trust' involved. Last time I saw that bitch from the West Pier 'Trust' on the telly, she was flogging off the pier's Victorian wrought ironwork to the shrewdie dealers from rubbish daytime TV show 'Salvage Hunters'. Mind you, the bloke from the Duke Of York's on the same edition of the same show wasn't any better. Selling Brighton By The Pound. Disgusting people.

The West Pier Trust, and for that matter the The Regency Society, have held back Brighton considerably. Narrow minded and out of touch.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

There will NEVER be a 'new West Pier' while there's a self-serving West Pier 'Trust' involved. Last time I saw that bitch from the West Pier 'Trust' on the telly, she was flogging off the pier's Victorian wrought ironwork to the shrewdies from rubbish daytime TV show 'Salvage Hunters'. Mind you, the bloke from the Duke Of York's on the same edition of the same show wasn't any better. Selling Brighton By The Pound.

Nobody Knows Anything, you say. Perhaps you don't know that the West Pier Trust was being charged for storage of the remaining ironwork, or you could have offered to store it yourself. Selling it off rather than taking it to the tip seems quite a good idea. And how exactly are the West Pier Trust 'self-serving'?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Nobody Knows Anything, you say. Perhaps you don't know that the West Pier Trust was being charged for storage of the remaining ironwork, or you could have offered to store it yourself. Selling it off rather than taking it to the tip seems quite a good idea. And how exactly are the West Pier Trust 'self-serving'?

I've watched with disgust over the years the puerile interviews on local TV with a giggling anorak-clad 'Dr. Geoff Lockwood' on the beach with the pier either on on fire or being smashed by storms being totally unconcerned and going 'ho-ho-ho we have all the bits in storage, we can rebuild it'. Or that vile woman, still in charge, still drawing salary. She has a new ten-year vision for a new west Pier she says. I'll bet she has. Another ten years worth of contributions towards her final salary pension, more like. There's been word-of-mouth mutterings about that dodgy 'Trust' around town for DECADES. The semi-literate Argus Comments Section has been - for once - more indiscreet and more telling than most.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

The West Pier Trust, and for that matter the The Regency Society, have held back Brighton considerably. Narrow minded and out of touch.

Over thirty years ago I did work for a fella who was in charge of all of this.
Had a lovely flat overlooking the Piers but you'd never turn your back on him

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I've watched with disgust over the years the puerile interviews on local TV with a giggling anorak-clad 'Dr. Geoff Greenwood' on the beach with the pier either on on fire or being smashed by storms being totally unconcerned and going 'ho-ho-ho we have all the bits in storage, we can rebuild it'. Or that vile woman, still in charge, still drawing salary. She has a new ten-year vision for a new west Pier she says. I'll bet she has. Another ten years worth of contributions towards her final salary pension, more like. There's been word-of-mouth mutterings about that dodgy 'Trust' around town for DECADES. The semi-literate Argus Comments Section has been - for once - more indiscreet and more telling than most.

I must have missed all the people with great ideas for protecting the remains of the pier from the storms. And it's my understanding that all the cast iron was unusable even for rebuilding the land-based kiosks, which had to be 're-created' by the i360 from moulds taken from the originals.

Word-of-mouth mutterings? Well, they must be true, of course. And I suppose the Trust chief executive should work for nothing, as its directors do.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Word-of-mouth mutterings? Well, they must be true, of course.

Probably as accurate as who started the final fatal fire on the West Pier...

And I suppose the Trust chief executive should work for nothing

Look, I'm sorry if you're her partner or something, but fact is the West Pier Trust has done f*ck all to preserve the West Pier over the decades. So, yes, she should work for nothing. Or go get a proper job.