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Hi Jonny, If the council are so strapped for cash all they'd have to do is advertise the jetty and they'd have Japanese, Germans and Americans pouring in by the thousand spending their cash and taking photos of their wives and girlfriends standing on 'the spot'  Seriously though, I agree with you, its b***dy disgusting - it make one wonder where their brains are sometimes. You'd think they'd get there priorities right, surely it would cost more to dismantle it than leave it standing. Daffy09
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Wonder if they will do the same as they did with the pier in the village I lived in in Scotland which had a major role in protecting the convoys assembling in the Holy Loch/Loch Long/Gareloch assembly point...invite the bomb disposal units in & blow it up for practice!! The pier was the business end of an early fixed sonar array to detect German submarines trying to attack...basically the forerunner of SOSUS. Annoyingly several piers along the Clyde have had money granted to them for renovation/preservation work that had no historic importance. Rob Nolli Illigitimi Carborundum!!!Current Builds: HMS Victory, SV Thermopylae
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This jetty structure originally dates back to 1560, the first jetty was built in time to serve during the armada menace which came in 1588 and was deemed to be the oldest known pier in England...would you believe that all that is needed to restore it was £300,000...its mind boggling!!  Current Builds: Deagostini HMS Victory: Deagostini HMS Sovereign of the seas. Completed Builds: Del Prado: HMAS Bounty: Hachette: RMS Titanic: Del Prado: Cutty Sark...
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jonny7england wrote:This jetty structure originally dates back to 1560, the first jetty was built in time to serve during the armada menace which came in 1588 and was deemed to be the oldest known pier in England...would you believe that all that is needed to restore it was £300,000...its mind boggling!! £300,000. Is that it. Lets have a whip round then. lol. i dont know what weapons will be used in ww3 but ww4 will be sticks and stones.
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Perhaps English Heritage should be involved in this one. Presumably it doesn't qualify as a building so isn't grade 1 listed. Surely there must be a way to preserve such an historic artifact. If it was on the Thames near London I bet the story would be a different one!
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It looks like this ongoing saga is more to do with redevelopement than anythng else English Heritage have looked at the issue and ruled it out... http://www.greatyarmouth...=jetty&action=searchH.M.S Victory
H.M.S Victory X Section
H.M.S Surprise under the bench
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