Sentence examples for pier built for from inspiring English sources

Margate was one of Britain's earliest seaside resorts and there are reminders of its heyday, from the grand Georgian terraces to the stone pier built for the steam packets which brought Londoners in their thousands to try the fashionable new pastime of sea bathing.

There were earlier piers, built for fishing and freight, and Jane Austen – who holidayed at Lyme Regis in 1804 – used a tumble during a walk along the town's famous Cobb as a crucial plot point in her novel Persuasion.

A second pier, built of concrete between 1911 and 1914, is claimed to be the shortest pier in Britain.

Funding has been approved by Hong Kong's legislative council for the demolition of Queen's pier, built in 1925.

The land part of "Dunkirk" is called "the mole," another word for the beach's stone breakwater with a wooden pier built onto it where long lines of troops are waiting patiently to be evacuated.

Talk story about the new pier being built for the S.S. Normandie, at the foot of 49th Street.

The New Yorker, May 11 , 1935P. 18 Talk story about the new pier being built for the S.S. Normandie, at the foot of 49th Street.

The concrete pier, built in 1911 1914, is claimed to be the shortest pier in Britain.

Beside it at 50th Street, a pier is being built for the S. S. Queen Mary.

A14 NEW YORK/REGION B1-5 Brooklyn Piers to Be Built For Largest Cruise Ships The Queen Mary 2, the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Carnival Corporation's world-class passenger and cruise ships will dock in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan next year, company and city officials said.

A new, larger lifeboat was stationed here in 1889 and a boathouse was built for it on the north east side of the island with a 100 feet slipway beside the pier.