John Crockford-Hawley, Weston-super-Mare's mayor, learnt of the discovery ahead of the announcement of a £10m package to save ...

A crumbling Grade II listed pier has been handed a £10m package to save it from being lost forever. Birnbeck Pier, in ...

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The stone pier was built in the 1830s and remains essential to industry in the seaside town. "It is the main focus of the town," said skipper Jonathan Evans, who spends his days collecting ...

A deteriorating pier significant to the Dambusters raid during the Second World War has received a £10 million lifeline from ...

The project to reopen the pier, which is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register, is due to be completed by autumn ...

That money was only formally turned over to the city in June 2023 and a portion was used to fund a 2020 study of three city-owned piers: the Amistad, Stone and “elbow” piers, the latter a ...

Weston-super-Mare's Birnbeck Pier is a step closer to reopening to the public after securing £10million from The National ...

The announcement was made today, Monday, October 28, 160 years to the day since the pier’s foundation stone was laid on October 28, 1864. The project, led by North Somerset Council in partnership with ...

He said he is the cousin of Cecil Smith-Piggott, the four-year-old son of the lord of the manor who laid the pier's foundation stone using a ceremonial trowel. Mr Crockford-Hawley said the ...

Birnbeck Pier will be “brought back from the brink of loss”, National Lottery Heritage Fund chief executive Eilish McGuinness announced on the 160th anniversary of its foundation stone being ...