The West Pier is a ruined pier in Brighton, England. Designed by Eugenius Birch and opening in 1866, it was the first pier to be Grade I listed in England...
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Whitby (redirect from Whitby West Pier beacon)
grade II listed east and west piers. There are statues of Captain Cook and William Scoresby, and a whalebone arch on the West Cliff. Whitby featured in...
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A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of water and usually juts out from its shore, typically supported by piles or pillars, and provides...
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West Pier is a pier in Brighton, England. West Pier may also refer to: The West Pier, a novel by Patrick Hamilton and part of the Gorse Trilogy West Pier...
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piers, despite being only yards apart; the West Pier is built on oolitic sandstone, whereas the East Pier is on alum shale. A record of several piers...
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The Brighton Palace Pier, commonly known as Brighton Pier or the Palace Pier, is a Grade II* listed pleasure pier in Brighton, England, located in the...
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Brighton, East Sussex, England at the landward end of the remains of the West Pier. The tower opened on 4 August 2016. From the fully enclosed viewing pod...
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including the Grand Hotel, the Hilton Brighton Metropole, the Palace Pier and the West Pier. The town continued to grow into the 20th century, expanding to...
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05444°W / 55.83861; -5.05444 The West Pier Public Convenience or Victorian Toilets is a public toilet on the west pier of the harbour of Rothesay on the...
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Canary Wharf Pier Festival Pier Greenland Pier Greenwich Pier Hilton Docklands Nelson Dock Pier Kew Pier London Bridge City Pier London Eye Pier Masthouse...
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West Pier (originally titled Quai ouest and known in German as Quay West) is a play by the French dramatist and writer Bernard-Marie Koltès written in...
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Chelsea Piers is a series of piers in Chelsea, on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located to the west of the West Side Highway (Eleventh Avenue)...
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Pier 57 is a long pier located in the Hudson River on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Opened in December 1954, it sits at the end of West...
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Port of Ramsgate (redirect from Ramsgate West Pier Lighthouse)
"Marina Facilities". Port of Ramsgate. Historic England. "Lighthouse on West Pier (1086089)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 June 2019...
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West End Pier was one of two piers in Morecambe, Lancashire, England, built during the late 19th century to an eventual length of 1,800 feet (550 m) long...
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the north-west pier for members travelling internationally. Qantas also operates a lounge after outbound passport control in the north-west pier; the lounge...
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it terminated at the old harbour of Dunleary, which adjoins today's West Pier. Soon afterwards, the railway was extended to Victoria wharf (later St...
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Clevedon Pier is a seaside pier in the town of Clevedon, Somerset, England on the east shore of the Severn Estuary. It was described by Sir John Betjeman...
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Chain Pier co-existed with the later West Pier, but a condition to build the Palace Pier was that the builders would dismantle the Chain Pier. They were...
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older popular songs, and using allegorical settings such as Brighton's West Pier to criticise the manner in which the eventual victory was won. The diplomatic...
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The conglomerate foundations of a monument base stand in front of the west pier. This gate is mentioned by Pausanias, who says that it had a trophy on...
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Gorse Trilogy (redirect from The West Pier)
a position to turn things to his advantage. Graham Greene called The West Pier "the best book written about Brighton", while L.P. Hartley said, "The...
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imprint of his shoes (see left picture) carved by a local stonemason on the West Pier. Irish poet and writer William Butler Yeats was a resident of Howth in...
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terminal consists of three piers; the West Pier, Central Pier and East Pier. The West Pier, commonly known as the International Pier, was built as part of...
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Pier 40 (officially known as Pier 40 at Hudson River Park) is a parking garage, sports facility, and former marine terminal at the west end of Houston...
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visits by train no longer exist, including St Leonards Pier, in St Leonards-on-Sea, and the West Pier in Brighton, parts of which can still be seen in the...
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Wigan Pier is an area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south-west of the town centre. The name has humorous...
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nickname Grutte Pier ('Big Pier'; in the pre-1980 West Frisian spelling written as Greate Pier), or by the Dutch translation Grote Pier, which referred...
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Dún Laoghaire Harbour (redirect from Carlisle Pier)
Carlisle Pier has been known previously as Kingston Pier and the Mailboat Pier. The piers of the harbour differ in length, with the west pier approximately...
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Eugenius Birch (section Piers)
The Margate pier led to a series of new commissions, which eventually ran to 14 piers in total, the most famous of which is the West Pier, Brighton. On...
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