Pier Group family outing

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My ex-BiL was the lead quantity surveyor on the project to restore that pier.

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After the fireā€¦

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Fruitcake, l love this thread and your words about Weston Super Mare.
Itā€™s my nearest seaside place and l have been there many times over the years.
I love it and the surrounding areas/villages too.

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we mustnā€™t forget too that when the british holiday destinations changed and the british pounds poured into the costa del sol and other like options then the british seaside destinations died out. I remember visiting a Welsh seaside town on one of my visits in 2000 in mid July , the town was deserted ;six kids played on the huge expanses of sands and boarding houses standing a stones throw away from the beach were boarded up. there was an air of forlorness about the whole town; the sadness was palpable. I guess you could say that the british destroyed their own local holiday destinations by sheer neglect? ie not using them no more?

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I donā€™t suppose our changeable weather helps them either.

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too much sun burns the soul; the skin and the pocket! here in oz most over 30ā€™s avoid it and just save it from their rooftops to the boilers etc?

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I can bet ya a dollar to a dime that the electricals in the roof of that pier were not checked regularly for deterioration. Maintenance is often non-existant or slack at best

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this song about brownfield sites is a very nostalgic one and haunts me regularly:

I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town
Dirty old town

Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cats are prowling on their beat
Springā€™s a girl from the streets at night

Dirty old town
Dirty old town

I heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
I smelled the spring on the smoky wind

Dirty old town
Dirty old town

Iā€™m gonna make me a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
Iā€™ll chop you down like an old dead tree

Dirty old town
Dirty old town

I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

composer Ewan MacColl ; Salford?

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Thanks for the post, lovely pictures especially the bluebells. We used to visit Weston a lot when we lived in Devon.

Ps I miss your posts on MSE :grinning:

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I mainly post on the MSE parking forum now since the Arms closed. Iā€™m still in regular touch with a certain Goddess by the way. :wink:

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22 years agoā€¦
I believe thereā€™s been a huge turn around in many of our traditional seaside holiday towns since then.

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yes I still recall many moons ago our camping holidays along the coasts of UK and we were lucky to find a spot to pitch even though it was drizzling! but we all soldiered on and those seaside towns benefited from our presence. Was it ever necessary for Britain to give up all of that and hand it on a plate to the likes of Spaom, Portugal and Italy?