{"id":760,"date":"2004-07-27T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:17:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T23:17:15","slug":"760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/760\/","title":{"rendered":"The tragedy of Brighton\u2019s West Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brighton<\/p>\n

I spent a few hours in Brighton today and I was saddened to see that the concert hall of the moribund West Pier has finally sunk into the sea.<\/p>\n

It seems a disgrace that a listed building could be allowed to fall into such disrepair, and it’s equally disgraceful that no-one was ever arrested for the highly suspicious<\/em> fires that wrecked the West Pier pavilion a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

I’ve posted up a few photos from the trip here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After growing up with ‘Quadrophenia’, I’m really quite depressed to see the pier so completely fucked up – it’s a disgrace that the pier has been left to rot like this.<\/p>\n

Checking with the West Pier Trust website<\/a> doesn’t give much hope for the future either, with a (broken) link entitled ‘is this the end<\/em>‘ on their homepage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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