Archive for November, 2009
Creative thinking needed to solve Grand Pier challenges
11.11.09
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 ….
More Information...Happy birthday Grand Pier!
05.11.09
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 because the focus of the company is directed completely towards the rebuilding.
The ….
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04.11.09
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 show a complete time-line of the Pier, following its history from the original opening in 1904 to the ….
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