Crumbling Eyesore ; Weston's Historic, but Rapidly Crumbling Birnbeck Pier Is Once More High On English Heritage's at Risk Register. Gerry Brooke Takes a Look Back at Its History
Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › August 01, 2007
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Weston's historic, but rapidly crumbling Birnbeck Pier is once more high on English Heritage's At Risk register. Gerry Brooke takes a look back at its history
It wasn't until the summer of 1989, as I cautiously made my way down Birnbeck Pier to catch a pleasure steamer back up the river Avon and into Bristol Docks, that I realised what a terrible state this historic structure was in.See the full content of this document
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Crumbling Eyesore ; Weston's Historic, but Rapidly Crumbling Birnbeck Pier Is Once More High On English Heritage's at Risk Register. Gerry Brooke Takes a Look Back at Its History
That was to be the last year that Bristol Channel vessels would call at Weston - the pier was deemed to be in too dangerous a condition to risk passengers' safety.
Nearly two decades later things seem have gone from bad to worse, and it's now estimated that it would cost...See the full content of this document
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