Oh look, another pier fire

[hornetrider]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-114736...

These pesky piers keep going up in flames don't they.

And by massive coincidence it was only yesterday that architects were invited to submit new designs as the council had agreed to fund it's restoration.

[petemurphy]

shame it didnt take that side of hastings with it...

it was probably lots of people commiting suicide as hastings seems to be full of doleys and they must have heard the tories announcements yesterday

[MX7]

Bad news.

Weston-super-Mare 2008
Fleetwood 2008
Southend 2005
Brighton 2003

[loafer123]

hornetrider said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-114736...

These pesky piers keep going up in flames don't they.

And by massive coincidence it was only yesterday that architects were invited to submit new designs as the council had agreed to fund it's restoration.

It's all that water and steel...it's a fireball waiting to happen, I tell ya!

[Digga]

Perhaps saucy seaside postcards offend Al Quaeda.

[thetapeworm]

"Pier in end of season winter overhaul shocker"

[KrazyIvan]

MX7 said:

Bad news.

Weston-super-Mare 2008
Fleetwood 2008
Southend 2005
Brighton 2003

Why's it bad news, fecking things are an eye sore if you ask me, stty looking wooden contraptions that look like they were designed by a 6th form art class using "art" straws.

[SLacKer]

hornetrider said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-114736...

These pesky piers keep going up in flames don't they.

And by massive coincidence it was only yesterday that architects were invited to submit new designs as the council had agreed to fund it's restoration.

The only thing to survive was the insurance policy

[Mojocvh]

"The pier was owned by Panamanian-registered company Ravenclaw, which the council said it had been unable to contact"

[MX7]

KrazyIvan said:

MX7 said:

Bad news.

Weston-super-Mare 2008
Fleetwood 2008
Southend 2005
Brighton 2003

Why's it bad news, fecking things are an eye sore if you ask me, stty looking wooden contraptions that look like they were designed by a 6th form art class using "art" straws.

Have you seen Brighton's West Pier? That's an eyesore.

[SGirl]

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the fire. You think someone would have put them up to it???

[Parrot of Doom]

Amazing isn't it. Two nice tall Victorian detached houses in my local town, neglected and empty for years. Developer submits plans to knock them down and replace with flats. Council says no.

One of the houses mysteriously self-combusts. Both sit as eyesores for another year or two, before being knocked down.

Guess what's going to happen now?

[AyBee]

SGirl said:

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the fire. You think someone would have put them up to it???

Do you not?

The hotel across the valley from me kept applying for planning permission for 4 half-million pound houses to be built having knocked the hotel down (The previous owners had applied for planning permission too but it got rejected and so they just sold up and moved on). It kept getting refused planning permission by the developer who bought it too...and then it burnt down and strangely enough, there are 4 houses there now

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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What, the ones with a foot wide slice cut out of them you mean?

[clonmult]

KrazyIvan said:

MX7 said:

Bad news.

Weston-super-Mare 2008
Fleetwood 2008
Southend 2005
Brighton 2003

Why's it bad news, fecking things are an eye sore if you ask me, stty looking wooden contraptions that look like they were designed by a 6th form art class using "art" straws.

Totally agreed.

6th form art class students would have built something better as well.

I was at the one down Fleetwood before it burnt down, used to go cycling up that section around Fleetwood, and it was always a dive and complete and utter eyesore (like pretty much the rest of Fleetwood iirc).

[Magog]

SGirl said:

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the fire. You think someone would have put them up to it???

I hope for there sakes they don't squeal... people in the seaside amusements business aren't always the most forgiving I've heard.

[69 coupe]

Parrot of Doom said:

Amazing isn't it. Two nice tall Victorian detached houses in my local town, neglected and empty for years. Developer submits plans to knock them down and replace with flats. Council says no.

One of the houses mysteriously self-combusts. Both sit as eyesores for another year or two, before being knocked down.

Guess what's going to happen now?

Their going to build a pier on it ?

[itsnotarace]

Piers love to catch fire, it's their #1 hobby

[.:ian:.]

At least it blends in with the rest of Hastings now..

[Puggit]