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Southport Pier
Originally built in Victorian times around 1860 at around it's current size it was extended by about 240m around 10 years later. This enabled Pleasure Steamers to operate services to Fleetwood and Llandudno alongside other visiting boats until the 1920's when silting and the depression stopped that. The extra length was lost in a storm in 1959 and never reinstated, should as part of the town regeneration we look at reinstating the 240m along with say another 600 m and then maybe Southport could again be a Tourist Centre offering sailings to North Wales, Liverpool / Wirral, Blackpool Fleetwood and possibly beyond to Mid Wales and Cumbria.
Southport could be the centre of the rejuvenation of the Northwest and North Wales Tourism industry.
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I doubt even another 600m would reach water deep enough to sail pleasure cruisers from.
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Originally Posted by
salus.populi
I doubt even another 600m would reach water deep enough to sail pleasure cruisers from.
If the extension went due west it would be permanently in water even at the lowest low tide.
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Originally Posted by
Alikado
If the extension went due west it would be permanently in water even at the lowest low tide.
Would it be deep enough though?
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Originally Posted by
salus.populi
Would it be deep enough though?
The Mersey Ferries have a draught of around 9' and some larger and more modern ones little more or even less.
http://www.orkneyferries.co.uk/the_fleet.php
https://www.western-ferries.co.uk/fleet
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Originally Posted by
salus.populi
Would it be deep enough though?
I may be wrong but I understand the sand shelves very gently up to about 6 miles out. That would be a hell of a pier
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Originally Posted by
Blackrock
I may be wrong but I understand the sand shelves very gently up to about 6 miles out. That would be a hell of a pier
It's perfectly possible, with modern methods, to dredge the original channel, so ferries could dock where they used to.....The depth and width of the channel, would depend on the size/draft of vessels to be used. Which in turn, would determine the cost of the operation. There would also be the ongoing cost of periodic dredging, to keep the channel open.
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If you walk out about a mile the land dips and when you look back you can’t see the coast rd.
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Originally Posted by
Alikado
Originally built in Victorian times around 1860 at around it's current size it was extended by about 240m around 10 years later. This enabled Pleasure Steamers to operate services to Fleetwood and Llandudno alongside other visiting boats until the 1920's when silting and the depression stopped that. The extra length was lost in a storm in 1959 and never reinstated, should as part of the town regeneration we look at reinstating the 240m along with say another 600 m and then maybe Southport could again be a Tourist Centre offering sailings to North Wales, Liverpool / Wirral, Blackpool Fleetwood and possibly beyond to Mid Wales and Cumbria.
Southport could be the centre of the rejuvenation of the Northwest and North Wales Tourism industry.
What a brilliant idea. It would be a fantastic attraction. It would take about 40 minutes to Blackpool and about 2hrs to LLandudno. Well worth taking a trip out for holidaymakers.
The pier extension could be a problem if the Marine Way Bridge is anything to go by. (Why have a simple design when you can spend a lot more money on something just as practical but a lot more elaborate?) The length of the pier now is 1108m, the extensions would create a pier 1948m long. But that in itself would be a huge attraction for the UK.
Does The sea at that distance out from the beach have sufficient depth for a Class 'C' Vessel?
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Sefton Council can not be bothered to PROPERLEY maintain the pier,
extend it, not a chance. What happened to the promised Helter Skelter
and the new steps down to the beach, the viewing stations for sea life?
Allocated money for it went somewhere else???
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Originally Posted by
jarvissimo
Sefton Council can not be bothered to PROPERLEY maintain the pier,
extend it, not a chance. What happened to the promised Helter Skelter
and the new steps down to the beach, the viewing stations for sea life?
Allocated money for it went somewhere else???
It's not a case of not being bothered it's not having the money.
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Originally Posted by
Alikado
It's not a case of not being bothered it's not having the money.
They HAD the money,
https://champnews.com/story.asp?ID=GN4_ART_505569
and
https://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/n...dfall-12841290
Even Stevie Wonder could walk under the pier and tell you the paint job is cr*p, rust flaking everywhere you look and plenty of unpainted bits, the part that crosses the coastroad especially.
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