Weston Super Mare pier
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PBancroft
Senior Member
- Location
- Winchester
girofan said:I wonder if the owner was making a profit, know what I mean?
In-Sewer-Ants?
Cheddar George
oober member
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I only work about a mile and a half from the pier. For my ride in this morning i was cycling towards this massive column of smoke, lucky i didn't hit anything it was quite hypnotic.
Mortiroloboy
New Member
Paulus said:
Some one's been busy with photoshop!
Chris James
Über Member
- Location
- Huddersfield
Cheddar George said:
Whereabouts? I used to work at off Winterstoke Road. I was down there for 9years before moving back North when I met my wife.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
spindrift said:This photo was taken yesterday afternoon...
I wonder if 'Firestarter' was being performed at the time!
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
hmmm, latest from the BBC news site is that:
"No-one was injured in the fire, which firefighters said started in an area containing deep fat fryers"
Whoops...
The owners are "absolutely devastated". As is the pier...
Terrible shame. There's something about a pier that sums up the British seaside, a little bit tacky, innocent, timeless. Awful timing too for people employed there - presumably a lot more people earn from itin high summer than in off season.
Good news, apart from the lack of casualites is that "The foundations of the structure, which is supported by iron girders, were said to be sound and not at risk of collapse." So it looks like it could b rebuilt, if the money's forcoming...
Piers do seem to have a habit of burning down, or is it just the case that we tend to notice coincidences and that actually piers only burn down proportionately as often as houses or shops or whatnot...
"No-one was injured in the fire, which firefighters said started in an area containing deep fat fryers"
Whoops...
The owners are "absolutely devastated". As is the pier...
Terrible shame. There's something about a pier that sums up the British seaside, a little bit tacky, innocent, timeless. Awful timing too for people employed there - presumably a lot more people earn from itin high summer than in off season.
Good news, apart from the lack of casualites is that "The foundations of the structure, which is supported by iron girders, were said to be sound and not at risk of collapse." So it looks like it could b rebuilt, if the money's forcoming...
Piers do seem to have a habit of burning down, or is it just the case that we tend to notice coincidences and that actually piers only burn down proportionately as often as houses or shops or whatnot...
Kirstie
Über Member
What will all the brummies do for holidays now*? They'll be even more miserable than they are normally!
*the whole of brum and prob a large portion of wolverhamptom decamps to weston super mare in the summer...
*the whole of brum and prob a large portion of wolverhamptom decamps to weston super mare in the summer...
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Kirstie said:
I'm sure
Kirstie
Über Member
...with the possibility of freshly made donuts at the end of it...
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
Ah well, it could have been worse, lucky there was not a big oil tanker alongside at the time.
girofan
New Member
- Location
- Oswestry Shropshire
Kirstie said:
!!!!!!!!!!! BOSTIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheddar George
oober member
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- Location: Location
Chris James !
I work at the end of the Winterstoke Road behind ASDA next to the Ford garage. I've come along way in my career since stacking shelves at ASDA when i was at college (about 75 yards !)
I work at the end of the Winterstoke Road behind ASDA next to the Ford garage. I've come along way in my career since stacking shelves at ASDA when i was at college (about 75 yards !)
