I spent a few hours in Brighton today and I was saddened to see that the concert hall of the moribund West Pier has finally sunk into the sea.
It seems a disgrace that a listed building could be allowed to fall into such disrepair, and it’s equally disgraceful that no-one was ever arrested for the highly suspicious fires that wrecked the West Pier pavilion a couple of years ago.
I’ve posted up a few photos from the trip here.
After growing up with ‘Quadrophenia’, I’m really quite depressed to see the pier so completely fucked up – it’s a disgrace that the pier has been left to rot like this.
Checking with the West Pier Trust website doesn’t give much hope for the future either, with a (broken) link entitled ‘is this the end‘ on their homepage…
Related posts:
The tragedy of West Pier, Brighton beach, Brighton
Brighton’s West Pier in 2014 – Victorian elegance rusts into the sea
Remembering the Brighton West Pier in photos, part two
Remembering the Brighton West Pier in photos, part one
Brighton 2002: West Pier and a shop window piled full of books
The Brighton i360 tower: ‘successor’ to the West Pier
The Brighton Wheel, a Steve Coogan-powered, third-hand alternative to the West Pier
Remembering Hastings Pier – photos from 2005 reveal what’s been lost
What about the theory that the fires were intential due to the pier being a breeding ground for rats and other vermin which have the safety of the ocean between them and their palace of a nest… Only one way to get rid of them cheaply for the council…?