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Birmingham on Sea

The town is a right mess they are putting in new gas mains in all along the front and the traffic has to wait for traffic lights one way system,they have put up new lamp posts,and a new flood defence barrier,and paving all along the front its all looking good lets hope all the up evil is worth it i am sure it will be:)

Mossy
 
john70 said:
Hi. Mike. Heres a recent photo, work is supposed to be finished by next July, there are a lot of photo,s on facebook of the work going on there.
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Thanks for photo John, it seems to have gone quiet about the pier but obviously work is going on. Since my Mum passed away we are not down that way so often. Glad to see a post of yoyu as you haven't put so many on of late. Hope all is well.
Mike
 
hI. Mike. Have been up to Weston today to see how the work on the pier is going, there is a barge at the end of the pier with a crane on it loading the steel work, but they can only work on it when the tides in, and it wasn,t this morning as you can see.
 
love weston am following the rebuilding of the grand pier daily its coming along great
liz
 
sadly no would love to, following on the internet,everywhere is just a click away,
have been there many times liz
 
Weston carnival this year is on the 16th. Nov. will be going to see the same carnival in Burnham next Monday evening, the 9th. Nov.
 
My husband used to go to Weston in 1958/60 with the Rotary club after his dad died
did anyone else go with the Rotary club,answers on a postcard,lol liz
 
I shall be going to the carnival on Monday with my granddaughter and great grandson Sophie and Leo and it is Leo birthday to day 11/11/08 they are coming to stop for a week in sunny Weston lol

Mossy:)
 
just been looking at the progress report and photographs all good liz
 
Dave M said:
Just a reminder whats to come, the viewing tower is going to be 90 metre`s high :)
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Sorry Dave, I can't see in metres - how high is that in feet and inches please
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Mike
 
Thanks Dave - will look forward to the tower and seeing from the top of it. With binocks might even see Mossy in one of the pubs from up there :)
Mike
 
It's a bit like Marmite.You either love Weston, and Brean, or hate it!
Personally, I hate the place.
When I lived in Brum, I preferred to go about the same distance, up the other way, to the lake District Or spend an extra hour on the motorway and go to Devon and North Cornwall.
I suppose I prefer the scenery to the hustle and bustle seasidey resorts.
 
Carnival to night folks,and Leryyngal i like marmite and the air down here in Weston is the best in the country thats why all the convalescent homes where built here for the miners ect; and one of the reasons why i choose to live here:P

Mossy
 
I think Lerryngal is right love or hate, i love Weston but people have often said Weston!
when i have said i am going there as if i had said i'm going to the moon,but thats fine
it would be very funny if we all were the same i have put some photographs in an album
old 1930ish i can't figure out how to put them on the thread but i shall keep trying there are only a couple so far,there was a fire in 1929 that destroyed the grand pier and it had
to be rebuilt then ,its amazing to see how people dressed to go to the beach, liz
 
Love Brean spent many years in the mid 60s on that beach with our young family, BUT THAT SEA!!!! NEVER SEEN MY KIDS SO MUDDY.
Will be spending NEW YEAR (First time ever away at this time of year) at PONTINS Brean with our eldest boys family, so I am sure lots of memories will be comming back from Hot summer days of the swinging sixties.
 
Elizabeth Redmond said:
I think Lerryngal is right love or hate, i love Weston but people have often said Weston!
when i have said i am going there as if i had said i'm going to the moon,but thats fine
it would be very funny if we all were the same i have put some photographs in an album
old 1930ish i can't figure out how to put them on the thread but i shall keep trying there are only a couple so far,there was a fire in 1929 that destroyed the grand pier and it had
to be rebuilt then ,its amazing to see how people dressed to go to the beach, liz
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Well said, and thank you for defending me Elizabeth.
I didn't see the sea till I was 13 years old, and Weston was the very first seaside place I was ever taken to . I took one look at it and thought o.m.g. is this this it? I didn't like the look of the place back in the late 60's, and I still don't now, but as I have said, I prefer lovely scenery and quiet villages to 'kiss me quick hats' amusement arcades and funfairs. We ARE all different!
By the way, I don't like Blackpool either, for the same reasons.
 
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