west pier gone

[B.M.F]

The pier is still there as I have just driven past it. Some more of it has fallen into the sea but it is not the bit already out at sea it is the part that is on the beach that is falling apart

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

High time those wasters on the West Pier Trust f***ed right off. The only time you ever see any action from these currants is when another bit of the Pier is burnt down by criminals or blown into the sea and they're asked to pontificate in front of the cameras

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

christ. they should have resolved this in the 70s! it shut in 1975. had the council taken it over then, how much would have it cost? a huge fraction of what it was estimated at during the end of the 90s.
Its gone now it seems, well ever since December 2002 storms really, but it was a real shame then. Even up to then, in its derelict state, it was a powerful image, envoking so many different thoughts. It should be a warning to Brightoners, thats what happens if Crooks and NIMBYs win
I'm not just talking about the football club, but all other developments around brighton, e.g: king alfred

It's also a warning that councillors need a rocket up their collective arses. Witness the pathetic non-action over the extra seats at Withdean over the provision of some additional poxy Park'n'Ride that nobody uses anyway. No doubt the Albion will fail to be allowed to cash in on another season in Division One due to the lethargy of these swine. I trust any of them trying a smug speech from the balcony of the Albion parade next month will be completely drowned out with a rousing chorus of boos just like last time

 

[Hunting 784561]

It's also a warning that councillors need a rocket up their collective arses. Witness the pathetic non-action over the extra seats at Withdean over the provision of some additional poxy Park'n'Ride that nobody uses anyway. No doubt the Albion will fail to be allowed to cash in on another season in Division One due to the lethargy of these swine. I trust any of them trying a smug speech from the balcony of the Albion parade next month will be completely drowned out with a rousing chorus of boos just like last time

Agreed. Hence my earlier comments regarding Bodfish. What a bunch of lazy, parochial, lethargic, oxygen stealing expense claimants.

f***ing crap, every single one of them.

 

[bigc]

This building is WORLD famous. I was in Australia when it first started falling into the sea and it made the six o'clock news over there. What a waste.

thats true, I once was speaking to some Australians online, and I said I was from Brighton, and they remembered it because of the pier, and also, at the time, it made many american news sites.

We must learn this lesson, the countless individuals responsible should hang their heads in shame. but I doubt they will, they will continue to blight similar such ideas(in the case of the NIMBYS, and i'm sure the Noble Organisation can find something to screw up)

 

[desprateseagull]

some bits will on on ebay, i am sure...

good riddance, if it was so important, grade I listed etc, why
wasnt it 'saved' after it was hit, all those years ago. its only a distant memory now, and a terrible blot on the seafront.

time to concentrate of more important things..

 

[timseagull]

Oh, I'm quite sad about this It was a lovely old pier. Shame it had to come to this

 

[cheshunt seagull]

When I first moved to Brighton, aged 12, in 1971, I thought that it was so cool that we had 2 piers. As I grew up the West was always my favourite, I remember my school being taken to shows there, buying rock at the end. I only really stared appreciating what a wonderful piece of architecture it was when it had already closed.

Whenever I see it what it has become, it represents, for me, for the total ineptitude and short sightedness of the fuckwits that run the town, (they don't deserve to claim to run a city).

For those who think that this is pointless nostalgia, just picture what a vibrant, alive and novel sight a restored pier would be and how it would rejuvenate that bit of the seafront. No chance now.

 

[brighton rock]

 

[oapdodge]

Oh well Pier today gone tomorrow.

 

[Zebedee]

Did anyone really think that any organisation truly ever wanted to save the West Pier? It seems to me that despite all the positive words that have been written and spouted over the last few years, nobody was "really" interested. I suspect that a lot of the organisations that had promised cash are now breathing a huge sigh of relief that more of the pier has slipped under the sea.

Time to move on now me thinks, sad as this may be.

 

[hooker]

Im takin brighton pier out! there falt f s

 

[Lush]

Oh well Pier today gone tomorrow.

Wonder which competing attraction the igNOBLE organisation will finish off next?

Random firework into the Royal Pavilion?

 

[Spicy]

I feel sad its on its last legs and agree that it should have been refurbished years ago, rather than allowed to get to its current state of disrepair.

 

[Strike]

I am quite sad as well. I had lunch with my mum and my brothers and little sister, very near the old West Pier a few months ago (Easter Holidays) . I had a chat with mum and we said that it was very sad to see the pier in the state it was. I have just found it sad going constantly down to Brighton in the past 10 years and seeing this great pier rot to nothing. It looks like now not much can be done. Someone please do something.

It will be sad to see Brighton become a one pier city.

 

[Dover]

I just wonder if The West Pier Trust will collect the remaants that must be a danger to shipping as they get washed away on the tides?

For a peice of engineering to fall into such disrepair, and be shut since 1975, no, or little maintance must have happened since the 1950's.

 

[ditchy]

What happened to Ken Bodfish's promise to resolve this after the first collapse nearly 18 months ago.


Nothing.

Another example of the ineptitude of our local council !!

 

[Northstander]

The Last I had heard is, due to the Palace Pier disputing the need to renovate (as this would reduce lining their pockets) the new plan is to re-build as it was at the very beginning.

In other words, the plan is to build it as a walk only! With no buildings on so the Palace pier cannot reject the plan as there will be nothing on the pier to compete with.

See attached....

 

[Lush]

The Last I had heard is, due to the Palace Pier disputing the need to renovate (as this would reduce lining their pockets) the new plan is to re-build as it was at the very beginning.

In other words, the plan is to build it as a walk only! With no buildings on so the Palace pier cannot reject the plan as there will be nothing on the pier to compete with.

And people will go on that BECAUSE In Victorian times walking out into the sea would have been a thrill - these days people have a much lower boredom threshold.

In the 21st Century the main visitors to Brighton are fun-seeking families and trendy Londoners.

You either need to build a fun pier (and arguably we have one already which is a lot nearer to other attractions rather than a long walk with screaming toddlers) or something new, trendy and fabulous - like a Millennium Bridge/Pier that can withstand storms.

I wouldn't mind so much but it is OUR money being spent - and it could be spent on something that will be a LOT more popular, interesting and worthwhile.

We need to look forwards not back. We live in BRIGHTON for f's sake - not bleedin' Tunbridge Wells.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Maybe this was one the last pictures taken before it went west...

Took it a week or two ago when I was at home.