Blown down, burnt down and blown up!

Took a bank holiday jaunt along the coast 10 miles to Worthing.

British seaside piers date from the early 1800s. The Grade II listed Worthing Pier was the 13th to be built in England at a cost of £6,500 and was officially opened in 1862.

As my title suggests, the pier has had a turbulent history and has been blown down (Easter Monday 1913, by a storm), burnt down (10th September 1933) and blown up (1940, to scupper potential enemy landings) but today continues to bring joy to visitors and residents and has twice (2006 and 2019) been voted 'Pier of the Year' by the National Piers Society.

The refurbished Art Deco Pavilion (see extras) was reopened in April 2014 to wide acclaim and is described as a ‘light-filled, glorious open space’, although currently closed due to COVID.