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A Banjo Pier is a pier in the shape of a banjo. The most notable example is probably the Banjo Pier in Looe , Cornwall , England ( 50°21′04″N 4°27′04″W / 50.3510°N 4.4512°W / 50.3510; -4.4512 ( Banjo Pier, Looe, Cornwall ) ), as it was the first and thus the prototype for many others around the
The Banjo Pier, as it thus became known, was the prototype for other similar structures built elsewhere. [4] [5] Thomas also engineered the railway link between Coombe Junction and Liskeard station, linking the Looe Valley Line (formerly the Liskeard and Looe Railway) to the Cornish Main Line. [5] Thomas lived at The Old Vicarage in East Looe.
At the base of the West Pier, is a small rounded pier, a remnant of a pier which extended into the harbour by 44 yards (40 m). The area around the end of West Pier was known as Scotch Head. This was before the gap in the cliff was developed as the Khyber Pass [ note 2 ] in 1848 by George Hudson in his desire to turn Whitby into a resort for his ...
East Looe centres on its broad sandy beach, with the distinctive Banjo Pier designed by Joseph Thomas, a new lifeboat station and St Mary's Church. Stretching back from the church is a grid of narrow streets forming the main business area of the town, packed with many small shops, restaurants and pubs and the Old Guildhall, now a museum.
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The Pier was proposed as the center point of what newspapers once called “the Coney Island of the West.” Happy 100th birthday, Pismo Beach Pier! From flappers to fixes, see history of iconic ...
The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City is dedicated to the history of the banjo. The museum's exhibits document the rise of the banjo from its arrival in North America via the Atlantic slave trade to modern times. [4] The museum was founded in 1988 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, by Jack Canine and moved to Oklahoma City in 2009. [2]
Olly Oakley (1877–1943) (also known as Joseph or James Sharpe) [1] [2] was a British banjo player and composer. He was considered a prominent zither-banjo player in England. [3] [4] [5] His music made up a part of early banjo recordings on the phonograph, [6] [7] and during his life, he became "the most widely recorded English banjoist". [3]