General Chat

started at 7 am

30 firefighters are ther tackling the blaze

but from the video clips looks like its destroyed

Oh no !

Ill take a look !

just been brought by a young couple who have spent thousends renovating it


what a blow to them and the town

Major blow to Weston Super Mare and to its tourist trade and a blow to the history of the British seaside as yet another pier is lost

How awful, was just reading it on the news. They are saying that there will be no Pier left by this evening.

Jenny

Been watching it on sky news, how very tragic, i agree colin another part of our history gone.

i was born and raised in w-s-m

spent many an hour on that pier

weston will not be the same without it

its an end of an era

just looked at it on sky news...how terrible, looks devastated

Tragic, another pier lost. Sad for WSM, sad for the young couple and sad for all of us who have lost another piece of history.

Ann
Glos

used to go there when i was a child with my dad


We went on a day trip once to weston my brother was always wandering off and as we drove into weston my cousin said to my brother who was about 8 if "you get lost you have to go there" pointing to the lost property office on the seafront, well he did his disappearing act and where did we find him sitting on the counter eating sweets with a lady at the lost property office.

Happy memories and so sad the pier has gone

Hubby and I have been there many times, what a disaster. I have just seen a news report saying it will be rebuilt...I hope so.

Sue x

It's a tragedy, because even if they rebuild, it's history gone up in flames.

What a shame

How sad Bev, it will be part of your childhood gone....

Caz xxx

yes caz

apparantly it is now only a shell

i feel quite sad

like you say i feel part of my childhood has gone

a dreadful shame - I wonder why piers are no longer built?

A bloke sent sky a txt/email saying ugly building, fire done us all a favour, what a nerve. I live nowhere near WSM but it is verysad that this has happened, bet it dont get re built!

Can't get to a telly, is it out now and is there nothing left?

What a terrible shame

according to the somerset radio, who have a bloke there and are talking to locals

it is now a burnt out shell

just thank goodness this didnt happen during the day

with this weather the pier would have been packed with holidaymakers


i do hope they will rebuild it

but then again i dont hold out much hope

looked what happened to the Tropicana (the old pool as i knew it)

http://www.orchardfm.co.uk/photoWallPhoto.asp?wallid=43144


that will show you pics of the fire and the pier how it was

'Tis a great shame and a loss to our coastline - and will probably never be rebuilt.

Is it a coincidence that the new owners had gone off on holiday to Spain a few days before this happened? I do hope they dont find arson was the cause of the fire.