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Follow the Grand Pier blog during the rebuild of the Pavilion that was destroyed by fire, July 2008.

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  • Creative thinking needed to solve Grand Pier challenges

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 10:39 in sand, barge, sisk, weston-super-mare, grand pier

    How do you get a 60 tonne crane onto a jack up barge that is 240m out to sea and is 30 times too heavy to move down the Pier?You build a ramp, 20 metres long and 3 metres high out of sand to allow the crane to drive from the last point of the shore t...

  • Read All About It

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 10:27 in history, grand pier

    The story of Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier will start unfolding along the seafront hoardings surrounding the Pier’s building site from next Thursday (12th November). The 180 square meters of hoardings are currently painted white but soon will s...

  • Happy Birthday Grand Pier

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 09:48 in kerry, anniversary, weston-super-mare, grand pier, mayoh and haley, 106 years

    The Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare will quietly celebrate its 106th birthday on Saturday. On 7th November 1903 work started on the building of the original Grand Pier. The contractors were Mayoh & Hayley of London. The celebration will be low-key...

  • The Grand Pier moves into constructive phase

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 04:36 in aerial view, grand pier

    After £9 million has been spent on clearing the debris, driving in piles and making good the basic structure of the Pier, visible construction has now started. In the last three weeks, approximately one third of the structural metal decking units h...

  • Weston on the map for trade visit

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 04:31 in grand pier, balppa

    A record turn out of over 100 members of the UK’s largest leisure industry association representing commercial leisure parks, piers, zoos and static attractions sector visited the West Country yesterday.BALPPA, the British Association of Leisure Pa...

  • Churchill School visit

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 04:30 in grand pier, churchill school

    Five A2 level product design students from Churchill School received special permission to go onto the Grand Pier building site as background for their design projects. One of the students, Liam Barnett, is designing and making a bench and the other ...

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