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Eastbourne Pier on fire

Callumcafc
Callumcafc Posts: 63,805
in Not Sports Related
has been going on for a few hours now. Not good to see...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-28571431

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  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    Can see the smoke from hastings seafront
  • shootershill2tropics
    shootershill2tropics Posts: 662
    sad. however, when these wonderfully quaint british institutions are temporarily lost, they are always restored, correct, or?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,042
    What is it with seaside piers burning down. Southend, Brighton and plenty of others, you'd think that with all that water they'd be safe.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,042
    It's a big case of "OR", Shooters.

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  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    It's all the oil in the wood plus they are full of doughnut stalls, chippies etc

    Once they go they go

    Hope there is no one injured
  • shootershill2tropics
    shootershill2tropics Posts: 662
    Stig said:

    It's a big case of "OR", Shooters.

    image

    'kinell, where/what's that?
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    shootershill2tropics said:

    Stig said:

    It's a big case of "OR", Shooters.

    image

    'kinell, where/what's that?
    Brighton I'm guessing. But they're meant to be rebuilding it soon... Soon....
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,042
    Cheers Southendaddick, oil in the wood, that makes sense, I hadn't thought of that before. Actually the last time I went on Southend pier I got to the bottom and was surprised to see I guy I used to work with but who'd been retired for a while. His new part time job was to stand on the pier with a hosepipe dousing the wood.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,042
    Yes, West Pier at Brighton last week.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,766
    How very sad for Eastbourne.

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,575
    Apparently it started in some wood panelling in the Games Arcade...
  • Sollied
    Sollied Posts: 145
    It's been run down for a while really. Such a shame, just hoping that actually rebuild it.
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,394
    Really sad for the town. Iconic landmark in one of the UK's best seaside towns. My parents will be gutted.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,575
    My Nan lives just up the road in Hailsham... Hope she wasnt down Eastbourne today
  • DartfordAddick
    DartfordAddick Posts: 1,085
    Don't believe it, my uni campus is in Eastbourne. No more Atlantis night clubbing then..
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,373
    Stig said:

    Yes, West Pier at Brighton last week.

    Heard that half of it actually fell into the sea and washed away in February. Will be next to nothing left of West Pier in a few years unfortunately.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,685
    A case of peer pressure influencing smoking?
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    guinnessaddick said:

    A case of peer pressure influencing smoking?

    A case of not a time to joke.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,439
    If you can't joke about a pier burning down, what can you joke about?
  • Sollied
    Sollied Posts: 145
    Possible arson attack now

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  • TheBrand09
    TheBrand09 Posts: 667
    DartfordAddick said:

    Don't believe it, my uni campus is in Eastbourne. No more Atlantis night clubbing then..

    Your lucky. All about TJ's
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,596
    Insurance jobs each and every one
    The Weston one being the most blatant.
  • StubleyAddick
    StubleyAddick Posts: 2,552
    DartfordAddick said:

    Don't believe it, my uni campus is in Eastbourne. No more Atlantis night clubbing then..

    What is everyone going to do on Wednesday or Saturday nights mate? I very nearly got a flat for next term right next to the pier, lucky I didn't now!

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