Pounds100,000 in Coins Feared Lost in Weston Pier Blaze ; Up to Pounds100,000 in Cash Is Thought to Have Been Melted and Mangled in the Blaze Which Destroyed the Pavilion at Weston-Super- Mare's Grand Pier.

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › July 31, 2008

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Up To pounds100,000 in cash is thought to have been melted and mangled in the blaze which destroyed the pavilion at Weston-super- Mare's Grand Pier.

Firefighters say the 1,000C fire which ripped through the pavilion early on Monday, destroying all 370 amusement machines housed there, has left the coins inside either melted or fused together by the heat.

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Pounds100,000 in Coins Feared Lost in Weston Pier Blaze ; Up to Pounds100,000 in Cash Is Thought to Have Been Melted and Mangled in the Blaze Which Destroyed the Pavilion at Weston-Super- Mare's Grand Pier.

But the pier's safes, rumoured to contain around pounds200,000, are believed to have survived the blaze, although no-one has been able to reach them to confirm the ...

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