Seaside Piers.

[p.risboy]

Ok then, how many of you have enjoyed a stroll along a seaside pier.

Find one near you, and take in the sea air.

http://www.fatbadgers.co.uk/Britain/piers.htm

Steve.

 

[benny1982]

Yarmouth, Southend and Brighton are piers I have been on Steve.

 

[duckweed]

It's a long way to the sea from here.

 

[benny1982]

I live 500 yards from the sea.

 

[p.risboy]

Yarmouth, Southend and Brighton are piers I have been on Steve.

Now let me think.........been on Brighton, Southend, Yarmouth, Weston S.Mare, Ryde (I.O.W), Southport, Rhyl, Blackpool, Fleetwood, Clacton and Liverpool.
Maybe a couple more, and enjoyed 'crabbing' as a kid.

Steve.

 

[joaning]

I have been to Largs Bay,Semaphore,Henley,Grange,Glenelg,Brighton,to name just a few. I have walked on all the piers(jetties),and fished from them all. We have raked for blue swimmer crabs at dozens of crabbing beaches, my husband and I still enjoy putting the rakes and tub in the boot of the car, and going crabbing. Then we bring the crabs home and cook them in an old gas copper, in salt water from the sea,with mint.

 

[davelambert271]

Hi
My interest in piers is what swims beneath them. Spent many happy hours float fishing for mackerel, then eating them fresh the same day.
There's nothing better than finding your bait on the shore, catching a Bass or Cod and eating the same day. Although I have fished on too many piers to mention throughout the country, my favourite spots are off the beaches. Anyone wanting an experience to remember, buy some live sand eels caught that morning, from a seller on the beach at Teignmouth, Devon, cast them into the river on a unweighted line on a light rod, and let them swim in the current. When a bass hits, and they always do, you know about it

dave

 

[silicondale]

How about a picture? This is a painting of the Brighton Chain Pier, by Henry Bodle, son-in-law of my g-g-g-grandfather William Vine

 

[p.risboy]

Nice painting, but why the French flag.:2fun::2fun:

And is that a French Cavalryman.

Sacre bluer.:biggrin:

 

[somerstown]

Being a miserable old codger I don't like the seaside! I even get seasick on the Woolwich ferry. >

 

[leefer]

I think the widest pier i have ever been on was about as wide as this thread

Been on a few and nearly fell through Weston Super Mare pier on account of a dodgy lose plank....i kept shouting at Donnami to pull and not push:biggrin:

 

[silicondale]

Interesting points about the French flag and the cavalryman. However, it is definitely Brighton chain pier. A bit of background: it was painted in about 1840 (we don't know the exact date). Henry Bodle was a son-in-law of William Vine who had operated a windmill in Brighton and we believe was a friend of John Constable (yes, THE John Constable). Why do we think this? Because William Vine's mill appears in at least six known works by Constable; both men had similar strict non-conformist backgrounds. In 1843, Henry Bodle also painted Vine's mill (watercolour, donated to Brighton Museum last year by another descendant) and a portrait of William Vine himself, and it is very likely that he had learned his painting from Constable - though his day job was carpentry.

So why the French touches? I have no idea. Possibly some sympathy with the egalitarianism of the French republic. I am not aware of any family connections with France.

 

[leefer]

http://www.thisbrighton.co.uk/culturepiers.htm

This link will explain the french connection

And there was me thinking it was because they were selling snails on the end of it and not cockles......which reminds me did you hear about the cockle who went to the party...and pulled a muscle

Au Revoir.

 

[leefer]

And the same pier painted by Constable.....around 1825.