Fleetwood Pier destroyed by fire overnight..........

[Wacky Racer]

Seems a bit of a co-incidence,....a few weeks after Weston-Super-Mare pier met the same fate...and both dilapilated piers had new owners a few months previously....

They must be gutted.........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7605...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/752816...

Edited by Wacky Racer on Tuesday 9th September 07:24

[MitchT]

Wacky Racer said:

Seems a bit of a co-incidence

Cash must be tight in Fleetwood too

[clonmult]

That pier was an absolute mess, and hasn't been used in years.

That whole area is quiet, has been ever since I remember. Insurance job? Possibly. They'll claim they had plans to revitalise the area and this has them all scuppered.

[Pat H]

BBC said:

Mike Simmons, also known as comedian Joey Blower, had promised a new lease of life for the pier by converting it into luxury apartments.

An idea so spectacularly ill conceived it is laughable.

Mind you, what should we expect from a comedian?

[Wacky Racer]

clonmult said:

That pier was an absolute mess, and hasn't been used in years.

That whole area is quiet, has been ever since I remember. Insurance job? Possibly. They'll claim they had plans to revitalise the area and this has them all scuppered.

Personally, I am saddened by this, because I often used to go on Fleetwood pier in the late seventies, and it was quite a thriving place with plenty of visitors, but when I walked past a few weeks ago, it was in a sorry state, all boarded up........

[MitchT]

Pat H said:

BBC said:

Mike Simmons, also known as comedian Joey Blower, had promised a new lease of life for the pier by converting it into luxury apartments.

An idea so spectacularly ill conceived it is laughable.

Mind you, what should we expect from a comedian?

To be fair to Mr Simmons, the description of anything built in the last ten years that's labelled as a 'luxury apartment' would appear to have been conceived by a comedian.

[snotsnfarts]

Brighton's west pier got torched twice, considering the Skidrow-by-Sea has two piers and one was doing very well and the other a grade one listed and nicer pier was about to be renovated with lottery money all of a sudden in the middle of the night it caught fire and half gutted it...some months latter the derelict pier reignited..it's a funny old world

Edited by snotsnfarts on Tuesday 9th September 08:03

[clonmult]

Wacky Racer said:

clonmult said:

That pier was an absolute mess, and hasn't been used in years.

That whole area is quiet, has been ever since I remember. Insurance job? Possibly. They'll claim they had plans to revitalise the area and this has them all scuppered.

Personally, I am saddened by this, because I often used to go on Fleetwood pier in the late seventies, and it was quite a thriving place with plenty of visitors, but when I walked past a few weeks ago, it was in a sorry state, all boarded up........

Me too - I mainly remember it from the 80s, wouldn't say it was quite thriving though. Used to cycle up there with my dad and watch the boats come in, there was the occasional military boat that turned up in the marina.

Would have thought the Freeport development would have helped the area, and apparently the Lofthouses (I knew Mr Lofthouse, never was a fan of his wife - he was laid back, she was the one running the business) are putting money into local development.

Freeport is doing okay, but the rest of Fleetwood seems pretty run down.

[DJC]

clonmult said:

Wacky Racer said:

clonmult said:

That pier was an absolute mess, and hasn't been used in years.

That whole area is quiet, has been ever since I remember. Insurance job? Possibly. They'll claim they had plans to revitalise the area and this has them all scuppered.

Personally, I am saddened by this, because I often used to go on Fleetwood pier in the late seventies, and it was quite a thriving place with plenty of visitors, but when I walked past a few weeks ago, it was in a sorry state, all boarded up........

Me too - I mainly remember it from the 80s, wouldn't say it was quite thriving though. Used to cycle up there with my dad and watch the boats come in, there was the occasional military boat that turned up in the marina.

Would have thought the Freeport development would have helped the area, and apparently the Lofthouses (I knew Mr Lofthouse, never was a fan of his wife - he was laid back, she was the one running the business) are putting money into local development.

Freeport is doing okay, but the rest of Fleetwood seems pretty run down.

You dont cross Doreen, or rather you dont cross her twice! She is a class act in every sense of the word, would terrify most of the mouth and trousers on here...imagine Sarah Palin with fish instead of religion. Doreen has put a lot of money into Fleetwood and is pretty much responsible for the place no longer looking like a doss hole. Im sorry to hear about Fleetwood pier, but in truth it had long ceased to have any purpose and the apts. idea was never a goer from when it was first announced. We shall see what happens to it all now.

[Emmapuma]

clonmult said:

That pier was an absolute mess, and hasn't been used in years.

That whole area is quiet, has been ever since I remember. Insurance job? Possibly. They'll claim they had plans to revitalise the area and this has them all scuppered.

was listening to the news on the radio this morning and they said that plans to build apartments on the site had been put on hold. apparently the place had gone very downhill. i've never been despite living fairly near so wouldnt know.

[clonmult]

DJC said:

clonmult said:

Wacky Racer said:

clonmult said:

That pier was an absolute mess, and hasn't been used in years.

That whole area is quiet, has been ever since I remember. Insurance job? Possibly. They'll claim they had plans to revitalise the area and this has them all scuppered.

Personally, I am saddened by this, because I often used to go on Fleetwood pier in the late seventies, and it was quite a thriving place with plenty of visitors, but when I walked past a few weeks ago, it was in a sorry state, all boarded up........

Me too - I mainly remember it from the 80s, wouldn't say it was quite thriving though. Used to cycle up there with my dad and watch the boats come in, there was the occasional military boat that turned up in the marina.

Would have thought the Freeport development would have helped the area, and apparently the Lofthouses (I knew Mr Lofthouse, never was a fan of his wife - he was laid back, she was the one running the business) are putting money into local development.

Freeport is doing okay, but the rest of Fleetwood seems pretty run down.

You dont cross Doreen, or rather you dont cross her twice! She is a class act in every sense of the word, would terrify most of the mouth and trousers on here...imagine Sarah Palin with fish instead of religion. Doreen has put a lot of money into Fleetwood and is pretty much responsible for the place no longer looking like a doss hole. Im sorry to hear about Fleetwood pier, but in truth it had long ceased to have any purpose and the apts. idea was never a goer from when it was first announced. We shall see what happens to it all now.

I've been away from the area for maybe 14 years now, only visit family in blackpool/cleveleys on occasion.

Was around fleetwood a few weeks back, and it did look like a bit of a hole. If thats after money has been pumped into it, then I hate to think what it was like prior to the cash injection.

[groomi]

I've worked it out. Global warming has made the sea become flammable, which is igniting our piers.

We need a pier tax!

[hornetrider]

I think you're doing all these upstanding pier owners a disservice. Maybe there's just a bunch of loony chavs bombing round torching them?

[aussiebruce]

where's fleetwood???

[Wacky Racer]

aussiebruce said:

where's fleetwood???

About six miles north along the coast from Blackpool......

[clonmult]

Wacky Racer said:

aussiebruce said:

where's fleetwood???

About six miles north along the coast from Blackpool......

And on the way you go through Bispham (blink and miss it), Cleveleys (where that boat was beached), then Rossall ...

[Vesuvius 996]

I once went on a date with a girl who asked me to kiss her where it smells. So I took her to Fleetwood.



Thangyow.

[Wacky Racer]

Vesuvius 996 said:

I once went on a date with a girl who asked me to kiss her where it smells. So I took her to Fleetwood.



Thangyow.

Don't call us, we'll call you.......

[mitzy]

Wacky Racer said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

I once went on a date with a girl who asked me to kiss her where it smells. So I took her to Fleetwood.



Thangyow.

Don't call us, we'll call you.......

Thought it was Canvey Island ?

[mel]

It must be the southerner in me as I've never heard of the place, but when I saw the thread title I read it as "Fleetwood Mac destroyed by fire" I think I'm tired.