Nicole is a member of the Brighton and Hove Camera Club been accepted into  Hove Arts. She exhibited at the Grange Gallery in April 2010, at the Artists Open House in May and in August will be part of an exhibition at the Old Market theatre.

You can find out more about Nicole’s work on her website. Her photographs are available to purchase and she also has an iPad app. available to download.

We hope to be able to offer her West Pier series of cards and prints for sale on this site in the near future.

Here are a selection of Nicole’s photos (click on any image to see a larger version)

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All photos © Nicole Carman

If you are a photographer and wish to display your images of the West Pier, please contact us at info@westpier.co.uk

A video and photos of this exciting project is now available on the website.

We are especially interested in personal photographs, film and memories of people who used the pier from pleasure or worked for the pier company.

Do you have any photos including family snapshots or postcards or film taken on or near the West Pier which you would be happy for us to publish on our website? Or could you send us a written account of your memories of the pier?

We also wish to create an oral history of the pier and are looking to interview people who used the pier up to its closure in 1975.

If you would like to participate in this archive programme please get in touch info@westpier.co.uk or 01273 321499.

You can also submit photos via our online form.

We are also planning a special, one-off memory collection event as part of the Heritage Open Day celebrations on 12th September – more news on this later in the year.

Photography by Mark Baynes www.baynes.co.uk

The recent removal of the Concert Hall wreckage, has attracted much media interest on the internet, TV and newspapers. 

The Times published at article on February 4th including the fantastic photograph by Mark Baynes . There was another article in the Argus and the Brighton and Hove News website. 

The local BBC news programme, South Today, ran two articles. The article on the BBC Website also includes video comments. 

There are several blog posts mentioning the West Pier, including, Handilio’s HackBash and several mentions on Twitter. 

Below are some photographs of the work taken by the Trust’s historian, Professor Fred Gray on 3rd February. 

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Photo by South Coast Gallery

Photo by South Coast Gallery

This is the nation’s story through the eyes of its most important historians: the British people.

We are looking for any amateur-filmed footage that reflects the events of the last seventy years. It might be footage of the summer of 1976, or a summer holiday to Brighton. It might be street parties celebrating the Coronation, Jubilee or the Royal Weddings. We’re interested in footage of people’s hobbies or the big events in their life – perhaps an important wedding or birthday party. We would love to see any footage of local festivals, or people who perhaps went on to be famous – a local who went on to be a sports or pop star for instance.

We are interested in finding any footage you may have of Royalty, or the building or opening of important buildings in the area. It might be Beatlemania for instance, or political demonstrations. It could be that the footage is very particular to the area – the local industry – from ship building to cider-making.

We are throwing the net very wide, and we are really interested to hear from individuals or organisations about what they think is of importance and what deserves to be seen on the small screen.

If you have old cine, video or film footage we would love to hear from you. We are happy to take it on any format. We guarantee its’ safe return.

At this point, we are still at the research stage – so we are keen to hear about what people have. If any clips are used in the series, then a fee will be paid.

Please contact the production team at

laura.millward@diverse.tv or on 0203 189 3230.

Or you can post your footage to: Home Movie Roadshow,

1 Ariel Way, London W12 7SL

Please note that the tours will not run through the winter months. However we are hoping to organise occasional tours which will be advertised here and in the local press.