Captured on a late windy afternoon at Birnbeck Pier and Island, Weston Super Mare.

The PiP shows the twisted metal of the pier in close up, with the Welsh coast visible across the Bristol Channel in the background. The end of the pier in the PiP was where pleasure boats such as the steam boat, the Waverley' used to arrive and depart from. I can still remember taking a trip from there as a child.

Opening in 1867 the pier was popular with locals and tourists alike who have enjoyed funfairs and amusements and later on a beer cellar and theatre, and as you can see from the picture the lifeboat station was later housed here.

Now at last after many years of promises as broken as the structures here, the money has been found to restore this wonderful old pier and contractors have been appointed. I look forward to seeing the pier finally restored to it's former glory

I have added a song called 'Broken' by Jake Bugg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EL20VKlvbs

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