The pier is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building, due to its status as the oldest surviving pier created by Eugenius Birch.
Silt and sand accumulated north of this pier, creating usable land that was later nicknamed "The Sands".
The city would have to extend the piers they are on, creating, for example, about half an acre of new property at West 59th Street in Manhattan, a 50percentt increase in the size of the current pier.
Rachel Clark, the chief executive of the West Pier Trust, said she would be interested to see the figures as she thought it unlikely a new pier could be created out of the remains of the old pier for £25m.
The entire waterfront where the "third generation" pier was situated was created in the late 1950s following a major land reclamation.
The pier was a major contributor, first allowing travellers to disembark and, later, escape into a fantasy world created by the pier owners".
13 This structure was evidently a starling added to the pier to reduce the currents and eddies created by the presence of the pier which would wash the bed of the stream and endanger the foundations.
The English invented long recreational piers in response toa problem created by their earlier invention of seaside holidays as a glamorous options for the beau monde.
Mr. Benepe called the piers "as good as anything created by artists in the last few decades," but he allowed that some officials called the piers unstable and said they were slowly collapsing into the water.
Created and written by Heidi Thomas; originally created by Jean Marsh, Eileen Atkins, John Hawesworth and John Whitney; directed by Euros Lyn (Episodes 1 and 2) and Saul Metzstein (Episode 3); Piers Wenger, Ms. Thomas, and Kate Harwood executive producers; Rebecca Eaton, executive producer for Masterpiece; Nikki Wilson, producer.
The first of these has already been built: Chelsea Piers, the sprawling recreation complex created on several old piers.
