Tyne piers

[Charlton]

anybody know exactly how long Tynemouth and South Shields piers are. Bet TC does

[Charlton]

Who needs the internet when you have a wife and a wealth of books

The building of both piers started in 1854 and where not finished until 1895
South Shields being the longest at 5,150 feet and Tynemouth Pier a mere 2,950 feet at a cost of £1,564,232. Distance between pier ends 1,180 feet.
Other records vary slightly

[TC]

Lol Alan.....\"seek and ye shall find\", eh ???

Sorry I didn\'t see this earlier.

BTW......the length of the South pier does vary - it\'s twice as long on the way back down when you\'ve spent all night on it in the wind and rain, and haven\'t had so much as a bite

[sless]

a lad i work with reckons when he was a kid he had a 6 feet boat rod and a penn squidder
and he cast from the small wall on south shields pier and the tide was coming in
he got snagged around the front of the north pier
i had to bite my lip when he told us that

[Charlton]

I bet it feels even longer if you have a great big bag of fish. I wouldnt know though, anybody verify this assumption or do you jog and dance all the way down

[Davyred]

I read somewhere on the net that Tynemouth had to be rebuilt just after it was completed due to a breach 3/4 of the way along. I\'m trying to find the site, but here\'s a pic to be going on with....

[tonyfromalnwick]

There was (is?) an exhibition of photos of old Tynemouth and the pier in the art gallery on Tynemouth main street.

I had a look in a couple of weeks back, and saw that very same picture !

I didn`t realise that the Duke of Northumberland owns so much of the land down that way, mind.

If it`s still on the go, the pictures are well worth a look at.

[BriH]

I didn`t realise that the Duke of Northumberland owns so much of the land down that way

I have just had to re check my Deeds on the House to check he doesnt own it - he seems to have most of Northern England the Greedy Tw*t

and sorry Alan - it was your thread after all

[Charlton]

davy just stick Tynemouth piers or Tynemouth into Google and all sorts of stuff come up, except how long the piers are that is

[TC]

I knew this had come up before.....

Have a look here, Alan:

http://www.nesa.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread &tid=2817#pid14567

Goes back to Sept 2004

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Daft as it might sound I remember reading it .

[TC]

Just goes to show..........sometimes you just don\'t need Google........just use our own search engine .....lol

[Charlton]

cheers TC, Google failed anyway, the missus found the info in one of her reference books. Never thought of using nesa search, try that first next time.