see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-11473688
isn't this where the Hastings Congress used to be held?
Hastings Pier
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Roger de Coverly
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Re: Hastings Pier
The Congress (the non-Premier part) was held in the ballroom at the end of the pier for several years in the nineties.Phil Neatherway wrote:isn't this where the Hastings Congress used to be held?
The ballroom is no more
BBC report wrote:He said the entire ballroom had become a burning framework with bits dropping off into the sea.
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John Upham
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Re: Hastings Pier
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Tristan Clayton
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Re: Hastings Pier
This is a real shame, although I know the pier has been unused for some time, as well as being the subject of some local controversy over its ownership and future.
Every year I stay at a B&B near the pier during the Hastings Congress, and have always thought it a pity it's not been used as a real attraction for the town.
Sadly it appears it may be lost for good now; worse news is that it may have been deliberate.
Every year I stay at a B&B near the pier during the Hastings Congress, and have always thought it a pity it's not been used as a real attraction for the town.
Sadly it appears it may be lost for good now; worse news is that it may have been deliberate.
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Kevin Thurlow
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Re: Hastings Pier
Given the speed with which the pier burnt, it's a good job it didn't happen when there were lots of people there...
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Paul Buswell
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I blame it on the pre-May-2010 local Council, who didn't have the nous to realise that the private owners - an investment company registered in Panama - were never ever ever going to invest in the health and safety structural work required. Indeed, I understand the owners cannot now be contacted. Years were lost in trying to follow futile process.Tristan Clayton wrote:This is a real shame, although I know the pier has been unused for some time, as well as being the subject of some local controversy over its ownership and future.
Every year I stay at a B&B near the pier during the Hastings Congress, and have always thought it a pity it's not been used as a real attraction for the town.
Sadly it appears it may be lost for good now; worse news is that it may have been deliberate.
The post-May-2010 Council was getting it together - compulsory purchase planned, and eventually hand over to a local Trust, who had acquired funds for feasibility studies and who had just last week invited architects to submit..... www.hpwrt.co.uk
Two local teenagers were detained and have been bailed.
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Re: Hastings Pier
Amazing how often piers catch fire.
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