RIP Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7528165.stm

I loved Weston-super-Mare pier. Bummer! :(

Ant.

 

A shame.

An insurance job perhaps....... Seems strange to have deep fat friers turned on during the night and if they were then the insurance company will be unlikely to pay out

 

very sad an i dont think an insurance job afterall they just spent 500 grand on some improvements .......

 

Yeah, I don't think it was an insurance job. The new owners were grew up in W-S-M and seemed very sincere about their plans for its development when they bought it.

I can't wait for the day it opens again.

Ant.

 

They might have spent £500, 000 but its been a very wet year so visitor numbers probably down and a large loan to pay off.

 

Pro- so cynical. Mind you theres a lot of it going around these days

 

yeah but its mostly inside aint it
its been reported they spent 10 million on buying it and there all wedged up anyway so it might have been bought for cash as it were ..........

 

Lolli, was talking to an ex fire officer today and he was even more cynic...

 

yeah well seams a bit of a high profile thing to burn down to me u know think about it its not like they could take the insurance pay out and sod off is it :rolleyes:

 

No but they could use the inssurance to radicly modernise the structure in a way that planning regs being that its a historic structure might have thwarted.

 

You ever been to weston? the pier is more or less what makes weston weston and you would have to be stupid to change the look of it an anyway what insurance company would pay out for it to be rebuilt compleatly different

Anyway im just off to set fire to the van an all me tools i fancy a mer vito ..............

 

Well i still rekon its suspicouse

 

Well i dont :p lol :D

 

Aparently theyve sold out of metal detectors down there now after they said the weekends takeings were on there mostly in pound coins lol an its all still solid so they will be ok to re build :D

Ill be off to weston treasure hunting at the end of the year or begining of 09 supriseing what you can find u know