Weston-Super-Mare pier burns down, gets rebuilt

[Minnie_the_Minx]

or you can buy a ticket to go and see the glenn miller orchestra. doesn't matter what time of year you go to weston, the glenn miller orchestra will be playing the weekend afterwards. FACT.

Yeah, but Glenn Miller's dead and how many of the orchestra are originals?

 

[breasticles]

its four old geezers, a load of automated mannequins with bassoons, and a cd player. fuck only knows how they get away with it.

 

[keybored]

...can't quite believe we were there and then this morning it's no longer.

 

[cesare]

 

[Crispy]

so merged

 

[High Voltage]

It looks as if it will be totally destroyed. I hope their insurance is adequate!

Seeing as how Kerry Michaels is one of the owners (he of Regency Insurance fame) I'd bloody well hope his insurance is "adequate"

He made a fortune from the sale of Regency some years ago and I think as a result is in the top 150 wealthy in the UK.

 

[High Voltage]

Bombscare and I were on the pier eating a . . . . chip supper . . .. 8 0'clock last night . . . we just decided to drive off.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury . . . GUILTY . . . from her own mouth . . .

 

[Sweaty Betty]

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really sad this. I had no idea the tropicana was closed too! I have fond memories of both

Oh and me, used to stay in WSM alot as a nipper, actually i stayed at a lovely B&B always,on the hill past the fountain....uh mrs westcombe was her name....

gutted about the pier.....

 

[rollinder]

That's not true, you can pay some gypos to ride on their mistreated donkeys, sunbathe on the beach amid the turds, join the boy racer chorus around the seafront, or get in a fight in a nightclub before fading into obscuirty amid tatty posters for Jim Davidson's comedy tour at the playhouse. Or watch a fake band pretend to be Queen.

This is making me much more enthusiastic about being dragged back there on holiday

 

[fizzerbird]

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury . . . GUILTY . . . from her own mouth . . .

 

[claphamboy]

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury . . . GUILTY . . . from her own mouth . . .

 

[djbombscare]

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury . . . GUILTY . . . from her own mouth . . .

if it was,her drive for perfection and meticulour attention to detail would have meant it would have looked like this. . .

oh hang on it did. . .

er. . .


We was at home with the missus guv

 

[Isambard]

The BBC Somerset website had a major story for a change instead of the Burnham lifeboat being scrambled to save a trapped swan or something.

In a sad way I thought it was quite cool how Weston topped the news headlines and the Independent and Guardana had it as a political cartoon the next day.

 

[Geri]

The BBC Somerset website had a major story for a change instead of the Burnham lifeboat being scrambled to save a trapped swan or something.

The lifeguard got called out by some tourists because my nephew and his friends were jumping off some cliffs into the sea.

 

[big eejit]

The view from the M5. I thought a dormant volcano had erupted:

 

[Isambard]

When we were kids we always thought brent Knoll was a volcano.

 

[strung out]

the rebuild is well underway! and looking quite good

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/home...rand-Pier/article-1771011-detail/article.html

 

[William of Walworth]

Good pix and interesting article -- looks like the owners are focussing completely on installing slot games and fairground rides but I guess they have little choice commercially?

 

[editor]

Phew! I saw the thread and thought it had caught fire again.

Great to see the pier rising again.

 

[Riklet]

Shame the rest of Weston hasn't burnt down, oh well, there's still hope, and plenty of this year left....

 

[fizzerbird]

Phew! I saw the thread and thought it had caught fire again.

Great to see the pier rising again.

so did I!!

 

[Gerry1time]

There's a webcam of it too - http://www.grandpierwsm.co.uk/grand_pier_webcam.asp

 

[Skin]

So it's not on fire?
I'm confused.
Got quite a shock there
I even looked at BBC NEWS site.
*wibble*

 

[Crispy]

title edited to calm beating hearts

 

[butchersapron]

Good pix and interesting article -- looks like the owners are focussing completely on installing slot games and fairground rides but I guess they have little choice commercially?

That's all it ever was to be fair.

 

[strung out]

reopening at the end of the month!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9067000/9067827.stm

 

[Hollis]

They'll never keep Weston down.. like the Phoenix.. rising from the ashes.. The Luftwaffe couldn't beat it, and neither shall the fire.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I here the contractors have another job lines up

 

[butchersapron]

The other pier in weston - Birnbeck pier - has just partially collapsed:

 

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