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RLKingPunter
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Report Poppydog. • July 30, 2014 4:55 PM BST
Totally distraught.

My better half had a meeting with the pier manager yesterday.
All proposals out the window

Really, really gutted. Centrepiece of the town.
Report Ken Masters • July 30, 2014 4:57 PM BST
Does she work in insurance?
Report Crisp77 • July 30, 2014 5:04 PM BST
Huge news! I need to rush to my local Barclays and Tweet about this.
Report scandanavian_haven • July 30, 2014 5:06 PM BST
Sadspent many an hour in the arcade along Eastbourne pier as a kid
Report Poppydog. • July 30, 2014 5:09 PM BST
No she doesn't LOL -

Drove past earlier today and the seafront, prom and sea looked glorious, pure blue skies
Report FOYLESWAR • July 30, 2014 5:47 PM BST
will be down that way at the weekend(Bexhill) hastings pier burnt out a few years back and now Eastbourne ,wonder how many  up and running left in the country ?
Report Ibrahima Sonko • July 30, 2014 8:52 PM BST
I love piers, spent a lot of my youth on 3 of them.

You would think they had the protection a big corporation has by now.

Sad
Report Burton-Brewers • July 30, 2014 9:52 PM BST
I also love them just hope there is the will and the cash to restore it
Report terry mccann • July 30, 2014 9:53 PM BST
bit of money there unlike hastings
Report Poppydog. • July 30, 2014 10:45 PM BST
Just got back from an evening surveying the area.
Small scattered fires still glowing at 10:15pm

The outer 2/3s of the structure seems to be OK

Dozens and dozens of emergency vehicles

My other half, in her official duty, found out there's two safes dangling from the structure,
that were in the arcade!
Report call me a taxi • July 30, 2014 11:55 PM BST
scandanavian_haven   
spent many an hour in the arcade along Eastbourne pier as a kid


And me mate, from the late 50s to the mid 60s.
Saw it on theneaa few hours ago Sad
Many happy memories of Sussex for a kid from east London.
Dad's sister lived in Westham.
Still got a cousin in Hailsham.

Poppydog knows.
Eastbourne Rocks
Report Roger The Butler • July 31, 2014 9:24 AM BST
Really disappointing news. BBC local news were reporting from it this morning and it was a sad sight.

Piers are fantastic, a beautiful part of our seaside heritage and a real focal point of towns that have them. Really hope it will be restored and not left to rot (or knocked down) just to save money.
Report curious-cat • July 31, 2014 10:36 AM BST
Sian Williams, the former Breakfastime presenter, spoke on the BBC news about her childhood on the pier.

She hoped the finances would be found to keep the pier going.
Report Joel • July 31, 2014 11:08 AM BST
Would be sad to see it disappier  forever.
Report Ken Masters • July 31, 2014 11:12 AM BST
I'm trying to think of Ibrahima's 3rd one, I've got Morgan and Linney but stumped for the last. Merchant, maybe?
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • July 31, 2014 11:15 AM BST
the plough man
Report call me a taxi • August 4, 2014 1:22 AM BST
Latest news is that it may have been started deiberately.
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