{"id":9367,"date":"2012-08-17T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=9367"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:57:46","slug":"remembering-hastings-pier-photos-from-2005-show-whats-been-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/remembering-hastings-pier-photos-from-2005-show-whats-been-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Hastings Pier &#8211; photos from 2005 reveal what&#8217;s been lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-34.jpg\" alt=\"Archive photos of Hastings Pier, seafront, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK July 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"454\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/hastings-pier-continues-to-rust-into-the-sea\/\">photo report<\/a> last week showing the tragic state of Hastings Pier, which has been reduced to a burn out shell after a calamitous\u00a0arson attack in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-36.jpg\" alt=\"Archive photos of Hastings Pier, seafront, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK July 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"417\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d\u00a0forgotten\u00a0that I&#8217;d taken pictures of the pier on a chilly afternoon in February 2005, but now that I&#8217;ve unearthed them, I thought I&#8217;d post some up and show what has been lost.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-33.jpg\" alt=\"Archive photos of Hastings Pier, seafront, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK July 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"409\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to see that the pier looked in excellent condition, with its building in good repair &#8211; even the burger joint was open, despite the freezing weather.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"highlight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-pier-england-39.jpg\" alt=\"Archive photos of Hastings Pier, seafront, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK July 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"448\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out the rest of the photos here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/hastings-pier-2005.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hastings Pier 2005<\/a><\/strong> and see the modern view\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/hastings-pier-continues-to-rust-into-the-sea\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a photo report last week showing the tragic state of Hastings Pier, which has been reduced to a burn out shell after a calamitous\u00a0arson attack in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9373,"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":[17,193],"tags":[442,53,32,217],"class_list":["post-9367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","tag-hastings","tag-pier","tag-seaside","tag-sussex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hastings-pier-england-361.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2r5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367","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=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15122,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions\/15122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}