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The opening of West Pier in 1866 from the Illustrated London News. The West Pier was constructed during a boom in pleasure pier building in the 1860s, during which 22 new piers were erected across Britain. [3] It was designed by architect Eugenius Birch as a place for seaside visitors to enjoy fresh sea air. [4]
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 ...
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 ]
Opta’s live win probability shows a 29.6% chance of a West Ham win, 35% for a draw, and 35.4% for a Brighton win, indicating that this game is there to be taken. West Ham United vs Brighton ...
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.
Big Beach Boutique II was a free concert held on 13 July 2002 by English DJ Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) on Brighton beach, Brighton, England.The concert was attended by over 250,000 people, four times the expected 60,000.
Watch live aerial views of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, after it collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday morning (26 March). A container ship crashed into the structure at ...
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.