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The structure has suffered significant damage this winter and last night’s winds took their toll. It’s still extremely windy and that combined with high tide in an hour’s time could result in further damage http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10987392.Large_chunk_of_Brighton_s_West_Pier_falls_victim_to_the_sea/

Brighton resident and long time Trust member Selma Montford responded to Simon Jenkin’s recent piece about Brighton in the Guardian, her letter was published on Tuesday • Simon Jenkins blames Brighton and Hove city council for the West Pier “left to rot in the sea” (Comment, 24 January), but the West Pier does not belong to ... Read more

Local playwright Matt Thompson has written a stage adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s novel ‘The West Pier’. He’s planning to hold a literary salon as part of the Brighton Festival featuring selected scenes with commentary from an expert panel. Trust historian Fred Gray will speak about the historical context of the piece. It will be well ... Read more

There will probably be quite a few public screenings of the film during the next four years, but the first in Brighton, organised by MOOT (Music of our Time) will be on 17th May https://www.facebook.com/events/1405847552981182/

The collapsed fencing was annoying but it triggered some lovely photos, like this one by Hayley Chainey

Wind damage to the root end during the holiday break! Many many thanks to Lorraine and Stuart for sorting it all out while I was away.

The Trust’s intrepid consultant engineer, Jon Orrell climbed the Concert Hall roof each year in the late 1990’s carrying a Christmas tree!

Have you seen the West Pier marker buoy washed up on the beach just west of the site? It happened in the winds on Wednesday night. Trinity House (whose buoy it is) will put it back at the end of the pier after Christmas.

A lovely picture of the pier on page 18 of the Guardian today – it helps having Labour in town!  

Today’s Argus reports on David Marks’ address to the Council yesterday where he explained the funding problems that have caused delays to the i360 but also his complete confidence that it will be built.  

This is how the pier looked at 7pm yesterday. Taken by David Marks, designer of the i36o

Composer Paul Lewis’s new orchestral work, ‘The Sunken Ballroom’, inspired by the West Pier Concert Hall, will be premiered in November by the Sussex Symphony Orchestra http://ssomusic.co.uk/events-3/concert-schedule/ Paul’s mother, also a musician, played in the Concert Hall orchestra in the 1930’s. Her instrument, a John Gay banjolin, will poignantly be played by guitarist Ian Kearey ... Read more