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Southport Pier is a pleasure pier in Southport, Merseyside, England. Opened in August 1860, it is the oldest iron pier in the country. Its length of 1,108 m (3,635 ft) makes it the second-longest in Great Britain, after Southend Pier. Although at one time spanning 1,340 m (4,380 ft), a succession of storms and fires during the late 19th and ...
Brighton Palace Pier at dusk This is a list of extant and former coastal piers in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man and piers on the river Thames. Coastal piers England Name Place Ceremonial county Opened Length Pier of the Year Listed grade Description Image Central Pier Blackpool Lancashire 30 May 1868 1,118 feet (341 m) Originally 1,518 feet (463 m) long. South Pier Blackpool Lancashire 31 ...
Southport Pier is a Grade II listed structure. At 3,650 feet (1,110 m), it is the second longest in Great Britain. Southport Pier is referred to as the first true "pleasure pier", being one of the earliest pier structures to be erected using iron.
The Southport Pier Tramway was installed in 1864, and a new pavilion was built in 2001–02 to replace an earlier pavilion destroyed by fire in 1933. The pier is 3,650 feet (1,113 m) long, it is built in cast iron with four rows of columns carrying girders, and has a wooden deck. [83] [84] II: Conservatory
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The pier was designed by James Brunlees, who in 1860 had built Southport Pier, the first iron pier at Southport, Lancashire. Work began in early 1887 [3] and the new pier was opened to the public in August 1889, built at a cost of £68,920 (equivalent to £9,622,064 in 2023). [14]