Weston-Super-Mare is Closed!

A few quirkier images from a walk round WSM on Saturday, including a few double and multiple exposures and night shots.

Grey Evening in Weston-Super-Mare

We took a brief walk along The Grand Pier before it closed at 4pm and then round to the old Birnbeck Pier via the Marine Lake. The Birnbeck Pier is still standing despite the sea and weather damage. It doen't look possible that it can be restored - very sad!

Weston-super-Mare Reflections

Weston-super-Mare is Open

 I last visited Weston super Mare in March 2009 when much of  the town was definitely closed. The transformation to the clean busy seafront is impressive. Today is the 2 year anniversary of the New Pier opening so admission was free. The promenade has been completely redone with a grant for flood defences from the Environment Agency. All the closed shops and hotels on the seafront  that I found closed in 2009 have been restored and reopened.

 

However not everything is being restored. The Tropicana Art Deco outdoor swimming pool complex built in 1937 is to be demolished. In 2000 the Tropicana closed and a series of developers have been chosen to refurbish and reopen the Tropicana but all deals have fallen through so in August 8th 2012, it was announced that North Somerset Council has been given approval to demolish the pool on the sea front and the land cleared and returned to beach with a new sea wall. The Victorian Pier has not been restored and remain in a very sad state.

Weston-Super Mare is Being Rebuilt

Would you want a room even for £15 in the hotel above left.

The Pier View Parlour is closed along with the Grand Pier but there is plenty of rebuilding activoity going on in WSM at the moment.

Here is one for my collection of dogs and owners with matching hair colour.