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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.
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 ]
Three local architects—Charles Busby, Amon Wilds and his son Amon Henry Wilds—were responsible for several innovative, practical and elegant residential developments and public buildings in both Brighton and Hove. [9] [12] The Kemp Town and Brunswick estates bordered Brighton to the east and west respectively. [13]
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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 ...
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.