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The West Pier is a ruined pier in Brighton, England. It was designed by Eugenius Birch and opened in 1866. It was the first pier to be Grade I listed in England but has become increasingly derelict since its closure to the public in 1975.
West Pier: 1866: Brighton: Eugenius Birch started building this pier—one of Britain's first pleasure piers—in 1863, using cast and wrought iron. It was extended to 1,100 feet (340 m) in 1893; the new section was of steel.
Turner and Constable both made paintings of the pier, King William IV landed on it, and it was even the subject of a song. The Chain Pier co-existed with the later West Pier, but a condition to build the Palace Pier was that the builders would dismantle the Chain Pier. They were saved this task by a storm that destroyed the already-closed and ...
Bob Dale - BBC News, South East. January 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM. ... Brighton Shore Limited, which owns the building, said at the time it was aware of "serious issues" with the building.
The Pier Falls (New Statesman in April 2014) - The title story concerns the collapse of Brighton's West Pier on a Summer day in 1970 (in reality the pier was closed due to safety issues). Rivets start to fail as the structure falls into the sea, and many holidaymakers lose their lives as the death toll increases.
About 150 feet of pier section at the end of the Northern California wharf collapsed. The end of the pier that broke off had been shut down for repairs caused by prior storms.
Monday, waves caused a pier to collapse at the Santa Cruz Wharf, about 70 miles south of San Francisco. Two people were rescued and another swam to safety when part of the structure fell into the ...
Brighton i360 [2] is a 162 m (531 ft) moving observation tower on the seafront of Brighton, East Sussex, England at the landward end of the remains of the West Pier. [3] The tower opened on 4 August 2016. [ 4 ]