Sentence examples for there was pier from inspiring English sources

Before Westway sank, before the Hudson had a park named after it, there was Pier 63 at West 23rd Street, a desolate patch of waterfront that moonlighted as a maritime lounge.

Warren Edward Ted Colburnrn, the vessel liaison official for Operation Sail, has been coordinating with nine different navies and dozens of other ship operators in an effort to make sure there is pier space for everyone when they arrive that will show the craft to their best advantage.

It turns out they're piers but so there are piers in here.

True, there are piers in Scotland and Northern Ireland, yet these are very much working jetties for ships, ferries and trawlers, not ­people taking their leisure.

But there he was, Piers Morgan, in the exquisite surroundings of Manhattan's Upper East Side, feted as the next big thing in American television journalism.

First of all there is the wooden pier, the longest in Europe.

Then there was the Hoboken pier fire and explosion of inflammable paint ingredients in August 1944 that injured 400 people.

"When Fleetwood Pier in Lancashire suffered a similar fate a few weeks later we idly wondered how many piers there were left in the country to have a kiss at the end of," Hazel said.

There's a pier and a harbour too.

"If there is a pier nearby they make an amazing place to shoot," he said.

There's a pier renaissance in play – Cleethorpes and Southwold are in new hands and being cared for again.