The West Pier is a ruined pier in Brighton, England. It was designed by Eugenius Birch and opened in 1866. It was the first pier to be Grade I listed in...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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West India Pier (formerly West India Dock Pier) is a pier on the River Thames in the Isle of Dogs area of London. It can be found beside the Anchorage...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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visits by train no longer exist, notably 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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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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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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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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Monica Pier Aquarium operated by Heal the Bay, shops, entertainers, a video arcade, a trapeze school, pubs, and restaurants. The pier's west end is a...
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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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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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Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot-long (1,010 m) pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community...
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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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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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2016, the construction on the West Pier began, even though it was expected to start in summer 2017. The first part of the west wing is expected to be finished...
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Regency Square, Brighton (redirect from West Mill, Brighton)
Hotel 360 is at number 12; and the West Pier Hotel (at numbers 14–15) and Topps Hotel (numbers 16–18) also occupy the west side of the square. There are three...
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