A Collaborative short film showing the life of Brightons former Pier. All credit to the original photographers. To follow more of my Time Travel films visit timetravelimages or Twitter.com/timetravelimage
@@tobiasmurphy8048 yeah it was the best peir going, and we looked inbetween the gaps and we saw like a burn and a ciggarette inbetween the cracks where wood was underneath and it was catching to the wood a tiny bit and we got an employee to put it out and it was and next morning on the news it had burnt down, pretty weird
I worked at palace pier it’s horrible place now your literally a slave and it be blessed if you was a slave spoken to with respect but not at that place I left after one day
I was born (1968) and bred in Brighton but now live in San Francisco. Left the UK when I was 25, but came back to Brighton in 2015, and brought the missus with me; it’s changed, but not for the better. All the best mate….
So sad! I remember the younger Bennett girls in Pride and Prejudice wanted so badly to go to Brighton. I imagine Jane Austin would be so sad to see the pier in ruins!
I am really young and the pier burned before I was born and it was said that no one knows what or how the fire was caused and I want to find out and how the place worked because it could have been due to wires that lit the sign
I remember a fireman commenting after the (then) latest pier fire some years ago that 'nothing is better designed to promote fire than a pier.' He went on to describe - I am no scientist so I have to broadly summarise what I recall he said - how the pier's structure above the water together with the space all around it could not be bettered for turning a spark into a raging inferno very quickly. He went on to describe updraughts caused by heat meeting with cold air (downdraughts) and the passage of air beneath the pier itself and their combined effect in intensifying a fire. Not only will fire take hold fast, but the pier's position offshore in itself throws up difficulties of quick access both from the landward end and the beach / sea in an attempt to bring the fire under control. In addition, Victorian piers are rather delicate structures which succumb to intense heat and flames very quickly. The result, sadly, for a much-loved pier is almost inevitably fatal. Of course, the firemen described it in more technical language, but this is the gist of what he was saying.
I basically lived on the opposite building of west pier for a few years in 1996. When i looked back in my old photos and i can see the light was still on. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F1Vcyt9u2bE.html) Sadly to see it's gone, same faith as many 1800's stuff in Brighton.
