Sentence examples for its pier from inspiring English sources

Holidaymakers abandoned it; its pier burned down and wasn't rebuilt; and the Dreamland pleasure park closed in 2003.

It then missed its pier and slammed into the maintenance pier.

The 65-year-old ship, which had served as a military museum for almost 25 years before it left so its pier could be rebuilt, was towed from Staten Island by a team of four tugboats, accompanied by a flotilla of police boats and sightseeing craft.

Although Santa Monica was eclipsed as a port by San Pedro, the city prospered as a residential and vacation centre; it is particularly noted for its pier (1909), which includes restaurants, shops, an aquarium, and a classic carousel.

It carries with it a certain feeling of pointlessness, typified by its pier, of which England's populist laureate of place John Betjeman remarked succinctly: "The pier is Southend, Southend is the pier".

The ship and its pier needed extensive restoration and new exhibition strategies.

Once caught off its piers, lobsters are now shipped in.

One of its piers is specifically for fishing.

Ultimately, Prohibition would bankrupt the North Beach park, and its piers would be destroyed in fires soon after.

Seven years after Katrina, Reese said that much progress has been made in rebuilding Gulfport, its piers, homes, schools and roads.

Over the past few decades Morecambe has lost its piers and funfairs and realised that there can only be one King of Kitsch in Lancashire: Blackpool.