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jonny7england
#1 Posted : 13 January 2011 19:29:28

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Upon hearing about the plight of one of our county's most iconic vessels this week, can you imagine how I felt when I read in our local rag that the local council intend to dismantle and do away with the historic jetty where Lord Nelson himself stepped ashore here in Yarmouth..(through lack of funds)..is nothing sacred any more!!...
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#2 Posted : 13 January 2011 22:38:15

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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'BigGrin
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.
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#3 Posted : 14 January 2011 01:18:47

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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.
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#4 Posted : 14 January 2011 08:43:24

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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!!
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#5 Posted : 15 January 2011 10:54:59

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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!!
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£300,000. Is that it. Lets have a whip round then. lol.
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#6 Posted : 15 January 2011 11:14:54

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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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#7 Posted : 15 January 2011 12:46:01

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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=search
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