Same here in Herne Bay...although people are trying to raise money to do it.
It used to be a kilometre long, and the outer end is still there. It was on steel, but the middle part (blown up during the war for security) was rebuilt in wood and it didn't survive the early 1979 storms.
belly id say
Thanks - gives me an excuse to get a mincer :)
They are at least rebuilding Hastings Pier.
we have a real Sausage Shop quite near, bangers as they used to be
Baker's Sausages Catsfield
How about fish fingers?
How about Brightons piers they always seem to be burning down. And southends, I remmeber going on the train on that pier.
As far as Brighton is concerned:
The Palace Pier is still going strong and is very busy. It's got an excellent funfair on the end of it, a couple of pubs, a chippy, Tattoo place, other food drink/ shops / the usual annoying amusement arcade / games stalls etc.
The West Pier is being left for the sea to demolish (there isn't much left of it now).
She may not gag if its a small one ;-)
They have spent millions on Southend pier. The railway along the pier in now single track with a passing place at the half mile mark. If you take the train you can see the metal beam de-laminating with multiple layers of rust on top of rust.
There is a modern RNLI station/boats/shop at the end of the pier which is open to the public.
The building housing bowling alley at the land end which burnt down20+ years ago was never replaced and at the end of the pier which caught also caught fire there is a new(ish) monstrosity of a building called a Cultural Centre and presumably aimed at attracting small conferences. Attached is a cafe (I believe run by the council employees) but with 1 star for food hygiene.
[quote] Southend Pier Head was awarded a Food Hygiene Rating of 1 (Major Improvement Necessary) by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council on 18th March, 2015.
Well, only one of them. And that was very nearly in Hove.
We had a tram on Herne Bay pier too, again because it was long. Very slightly shelving coast on both sides of the estuary.
And the glass animal man's daughter!
And why they had to rename it 'Brighton Pier' I don't know.
I misspent a lot of my youth on that pier. A friend of mine could get free tickets.
Judging by television adverts, women live on crispbread or various yogurty things.
Can't see them being any more healthy than an Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tube
Owain
They kind of work as "liked by all" meal here - with some conditions. I like the Waitrose ones with caramelised red onion. SWMBO prefers the Liconshire, first born wants hot do style frankfurters, and second prefers the plain "gourmet pork" variety. So you can't just cook one set of them!
Spoilsport...
Doesn?t appear to actually be enough of a problem to stop them doing fine when they go feral.
+1
Proper sossidges are not 100% meat. They will have herbs and other stuff such as apples. Otherwise they won't taste like sossidges.
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As Andrew said, they eat the afterbirth and any dead piglets. The runts, who might otherwise survive, tend to get included.
Domesticated pigs often produce larger litters than teats available to feed them so the less vigorous lose out. My mother salvaged many in a cardboard box in front of the kitchen range.
The modern trains are also diesel and *very slow* (you get overtaken by joggers on the walkway!). The original pair were electric ex London tube trains.
(I have fond memories of returning home on one of those as a kid having spent several hours at the end playing on the amusements accompanied by my Grandmother... she confided in me "Do you know, we spent nearly a pound today!")
I was about to say it was not that long ago - but a check seems to reveal 1995! They decided not to rebuild the bowling ally since there was a new one that had opened at the Kursal at the time.
I wandered into the Kursal bowling alley a few months ago. My impression was that it was a bit run down and dirty with the no natural lighting, and with the lighting kept at a _very_ low level. There was evidence of major water leaks on the ceilings in other parts of the mainly empty complex. The shops on the outside were the big supermarket 'local' branches. The back of the building is a Casino.
The Kursal is only a shadow of its former self. The funfair/rides have gone to be replaced with housing. I remember as a young school kid that once a year, and for one day only, all rides were reduced to 1d a go. The Kursal used to have a sprung ballroom with balcony but in my teen years and early 20s this was used for rock concerts every week.
Southend seafront has had some major money thrown at it and the Adventure Island (funfair/rides) has expanded dramatically over the past few years. It's free entry but pay for the rides etc.
There are two main commuter rail links into the town that tend to be only overly busy rush hour weekdays.
IMO, Southend seafront can be a rather dismal experience in poor weather and with very little else to substitute. Adventure Island has just built an indoor facility but this is a small fraction of its footprint. The high street is a poor copy of what can be seen in hundreds of other town centres and devoid of any olde worlde charm.
Not been into it for years. When the bowling ally first opened there is was quite "glitzy", with impressive effects and things going on in the under side of the dome. It sounds rather like they have not maintained it since then!
I remember a roller coaster ride called the mouse that was quite good. Individual cars that would seat one or two, and the wheeled bogey placed right at the back of the car - so as you approached a corner the car seemed to carry straight on for way to long and then suddenly turn long after your brain had convinced you that you should be falling about now.
Or Peter Pan's as it was ;-)
(I think I quite liked it when there was a boating lake on the left side of the pier rather than the massive expansion of adventure island)
The Sea Life centre can be worth a look on damper days... (almost opposite the Kursal)
About the best you can say of the high street these days is that there is a fair amount concentrated into a relatively small space. You can walk it both ways in far less time than it takes to get round all of something like Lakeside.
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