Day 106 - Today we had a lovely sunny walk along Herne Bay Sea front. Today's picture is all that's left of part of a pier, so I thought I'd research it's history. - The first pier opened in 1832 and was 3633ft long and was used as a landing head for London steamers until 1862 when is was damaged by storms and closed, it was sold for scrap in 1871. A new second 320ft wood and iron pier opened in 1873 with the addition of a theatre in 1884. In 1896 work begun on extending the pier, after a virtual rebuild it was completed in 1899 - Herne Bays 'third' pier measured 3787ft. Herne Bay District council purchased the pier in 1909 and a Grand Pavilion was opened in 1910. The old original theatre (which was part of the second pier) was destroyed by fire in 1928. In 1968 an insurance survey found some of the supports to be in a critical condition and forced to close, only the shoreward end remained where the Grand Pavilion was located, in 1970 the Grand Pavilion burnt down. In 1976 a new £900,000 sports pavilion was opened (this was later condemned in 2010) in 1978 a storm destroyed the main neck of the pier leaving only a short section intact and the pier head isolated at sea.
If interested there is more on the history here http://hernebaypier.org/history.html
@louannwarren@ludwigsdiana@chrisiow@mittens@gamelee Thank you for your lovely comments 😊 Before I started 365 I'd visited Herne Bay many times and never thought to take pictures (hangs head in shame!) let alone research the history of the piers, but I'm glad I did!
