Weston Super Mare pier fire and rebuild

[@johnashdown6547]

This was an insurance job,defineteley.

[@ytsteve3415]

i went there a few days ago , best arcade/ pier i’ve been to

[@xassassinxx213]

PIER I REMBER GOING TO THAT ONE WHEN I WAS 3 Well this was on my reccomended two years later

[@rordongamsey9421]

I remember walking up this pier the day before it burnt. The next day I went for a walk up the beach, saw smoke and realised that the pier burnt down.

[@Richnineteenseventyone]

A massive wooden structure without sprinkler systems systems.... Makes perfect sense.

[@jameshardie9914]

I was at a caravan park in Brean when it burnt down i was only 5 back then

[@kaytiehealey2080]

unity? home farm? warren farm?

[@jameshardie9914]

​@@kaytiehealey2080i forgot which one it was

[@christopherhowells1954]

It caught fire before I went on holiday in Devon with guide post 16 years ago which was a bit too energetic and by the end I nearly fell in the river canoeing.

[@Predators--cz2fb]

It was sad that it burned down and hopefully nobody was injured or worse but I’m glad it was rebuilt. We saw it today as we are staying in Western so I decided to look it up as I saw a wreck of an old peer coming from the twin and thought it was the Grand but it wasn’t. So I looked it up to reminded me what actually happened and where it was rebuilt which was on the exact same site.

[@Jag-Soft]

Ah yeah the second one futher down is birnbeck i think there is plans started to get that one restored as well. Thanks for watching :)

[@ellaElizabeth-ye9ks]

I was only 5 years old when this is happening

[@keatonandtegan]

This was made on my 4th b day

[@keatonandtegan]

Never went on this pier! The new pier was made on my birth birth day

[@f1_lifeee807]

Went there today

[@Ethan-vs5nk]

Did they have asbestos in that building the old grand pier not the new one.>????

[@peterscotney1]

Bloody hell !...that was some blaze ! What is it with piers n fire ?

[@Jag-Soft]

I guess lots of wood and kinda poorly maintained electrics lol

[@jakejonson878]

How did it happen

[@Jag-Soft]

I think it was a chip fryer caught fire if I remember correctly

[@jakejonson878]

jagsoftStudios sounds quite bad then

[@xassassinxx213]

@@jakejonson878 I love right near it

[@Taryn917]

Why did this have to happen

[@ignorethefact790]

1 small fryer = nuclear bomb

[@Vilator]

This is not funny dude I live in Brighton i really wanted to go there

[@lynxafrica258]

@@Vilator they rebuilt it and it’s way better

[@Vilator]

@@lynxafrica258 oh I’ll go there and ask my parents

[@charlesey_]

@@Vilator it's kinda expensive

[@jasonwhittle4500]

Not a fan of the new pier feels to cramped

[@chrisrebar2381]

So, the pier burnt down as a result of an "electrical fire" and the insurance money paid for the rebuild ...... Hmmmmm!

[@MarkNorville]

The greeks burnt the place down. Yet they got a knighthood for it. This was not an accident.

[@Vilator]

What Greeks?

[@xassassinxx213]

What Greeks I don't remember Greeks I remember a deep fat fryer and there was fire from the cooking area and it when into tons and tons of flames miles high no Greeks

[@Vilator]

xAssassinxX what is Greeks?

[@julianw1627]

Most unfortunate really. I understand that other businesses of theirs had met a similar fate.....

[@chrisrebar2381]

Still, I guess it was cheaper than getting in a demo crew .... I expect they just happen to have all the rebuild pans just waiting in the wings - Not too suspicious then!