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Discodoktor

Active member
Apr 28, 2011
793
Guildford
Very sad. :( Eastbourne would not be same if they don't restore it.

I remember at age 10 me and a mate would spend many of our days in our school summer holidays meeting up and walking to piers and spend what felt like the whole day on a £1

All classic machines.

Paperboy with handlebars
Commando
Star bike (laser disc)
Super sprint
Star Wars (cabinet)
Tron disc throwing
Combat school
And Penny drops (when we got close to running out of coins, little nudge here and there)

Happy times in eastbourne .....still a shxt town ;)
 








happypig

happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
7,960
Eastbourne
Bry Nylon said:
Given the intensity and the duration of the fire I'd be surprised if the damage is superficial. The tops of the iron supports and associated fixings will have been subjected to massive radiated heat - well in excess of 1000 degrees - followed by rapid cooling from the fire hoses. It may well be that many of the supports in the area affected by the fire will need to be replaced.
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Will it have been hot enough to melt coins or is it still worth a trip underneath it tomorrow morning ?
 


vegster

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,892
symyjym said:
Still lots of it left though, it is superficial not structural damage and the building looks fairly simple to reconstruct.

Looks a bit like a scaled down Hindenburg disaster.
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I'm just worried that the pier will be closed off for quite a while and while they are debating who owns it/who repairs it/what future plans there are, someone or an act of God starts another fire to finish it off.
 




Leekbrookgull

Leekbrookgull

Well-known member
Jul 14, 2005
16,250
Leek
Please give an Outstanding welcome to those FIREMAN who stood by and watched. Any chance of tackling the fire instead of ''damping down'' ?
 








symyjym

symyjym

Banned
Nov 2, 2009
13,138
Brighton / Hove actually
vegster said:
I'm just worried that the pier will be closed off for quite a while and while they are debating who owns it/who repairs it/what future plans there are, someone or an act of God starts another fire to finish it off.
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Yep, I guess I can see your point, but it looks like it will be simple to clear the deck so it can be used to get to the sea end. It may take years to rebuild what was lost but it should be usable, unlike the West Pier that was structually unsafe since 1975 and left to rot.

Thinking about it, it does make me wonder if the West Pier hadn't of caught fire, twice, whether they would have got around to saving it anyway, and what state it would be in now.
 










glasfryn

glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
Discodoktor said:
Very sad. :( Eastbourne would not be same if they don't restore it.

I remember at age 10 me and a mate would spend many of our days in our school summer holidays meeting up and walking to piers and spend what felt like the whole day on a £1

All classic machines.

Paperboy with handlebars
Commando
Star bike (laser disc)
Super sprint
Star Wars (cabinet)
Tron disc throwing
Combat school
And Penny drops (when we got close to running out of coins, little nudge here and there)

Happy times in eastbourne .....still a shxt town ;)
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you've not lived in Wales have you.
and its Eastbourne to you
 


Quinney

Quinney

Well-known member
Aug 3, 2009
3,653
Hastings
Nice to see Smug Cameron in Eastbourne dishing out £2m. Don't remember him coming to Hastings laden down with cash when ours burnt down. Election next year by any chance?
 




wakeytom

wakeytom

New member
Apr 14, 2011
2,718
The Hacienda
Quinney said:
Nice to see Smug Cameron in Eastbourne dishing out £2m. Don't remember him coming to Hastings laden down with cash when ours burnt down. Election next year by any chance?
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As blue as I am I heard about this earlier and was annoyed to hear about it after the lack of money available for Hastings pier
 


pornomagboy

pornomagboy

wake me up before you gogo who needs potter when
May 16, 2006
6,015
peacehaven
Got the paddling pool out not very professional uploadfromtaptalk1406933438162.jpg
 


Box of Frogs

Box of Frogs

Zamoras Left Boot
Oct 8, 2003
4,751
Right here, right now
glasfryn said:
you've not lived in Wales have you.
and its Eastbourne to you
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Aww leave him alone, he's got enough to content with living in Guildford!
 










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