{"id":9332,"date":"2012-08-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2012-08-16T19:54:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T18:54:49","slug":"hastings-pier-continues-to-rust-into-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/hastings-pier-continues-to-rust-into-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Pier continues to rust into the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-05.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"442\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tragically left rusting away since a calamitous fire in October 2010 destroyed almost all of its\u00a0superstructure, the burnt out\u00a0Hastings\u00a0Piers cuts a tragic figure on the south coast of England.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-02.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"429\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Opening on 5 August 1872, and designed by the genius Victorian engineer Eugenius Birch, the pier&#8217;s concert hall was an important venue\u00a0nearly\u00a0a century later, with the likes of the\u00a0Rolling Stones, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Genesis, Tom Jones, Ten Years After, and Pink Floyd al playing there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-06.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The derelict\u00a0concert\u00a0hall at the end of the pier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-16.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-23.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"392\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-08.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"445\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-19.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"423\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/hastings-pier-england.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>See more photos of the pier<\/strong> &#8211; and learn about the current restoration campaign\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/hastings-pier-goes-up-in-flames-95-of-the-structure-destroyed.261094\/\" target=\"_blank\">join in with the discussion thread on the urban75 forums.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragically left rusting away since a calamitous fire in October 2010 destroyed almost all of its\u00a0superstructure, the burnt out\u00a0Hastings\u00a0Piers cuts a tragic figure on the south coast of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[442,53,32],"class_list":["post-9332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-hastings","tag-pier","tag-seaside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hastings-pier-england-051.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2qw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9332"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9335,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions\/9335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}