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The collapsed fencing was annoying but it triggered some lovely photos, like this one by Hayley Chainey

Wind damage to the root end during the holiday break! Many many thanks to Lorraine and Stuart for sorting it all out while I was away.

The Trust’s intrepid consultant engineer, Jon Orrell climbed the Concert Hall roof each year in the late 1990’s carrying a Christmas tree!

Have you seen the West Pier marker buoy washed up on the beach just west of the site? It happened in the winds on Wednesday night. Trinity House (whose buoy it is) will put it back at the end of the pier after Christmas.

A lovely picture of the pier on page 18 of the Guardian today – it helps having Labour in town!  

Today’s Argus reports on David Marks’ address to the Council yesterday where he explained the funding problems that have caused delays to the i360 but also his complete confidence that it will be built.  

This is how the pier looked at 7pm yesterday. Taken by David Marks, designer of the i36o

Composer Paul Lewis’s new orchestral work, ‘The Sunken Ballroom’, inspired by the West Pier Concert Hall, will be premiered in November by the Sussex Symphony Orchestra http://ssomusic.co.uk/events-3/concert-schedule/ Paul’s mother, also a musician, played in the Concert Hall orchestra in the 1930’s. Her instrument, a John Gay banjolin, will poignantly be played by guitarist Ian Kearey ... Read more

Congratulations Jess Squires and Tom Welland whose beautiful pictures of the pier are among the ten finalists in the Argus Your Sussex photographic competition. Go to this link to look at the photos and vote to make the West Pier a symbol of all that’s best about Sussex! http://www.theargus.co.uk/photos/2013/your_sussex/

Good to see some people can still walk on the West Pier! This great photo was taken in July by Paul Cooke. We love seeing your pictures, please send to info@westpier.co.uk

Punch Prof Glyn Edwards http://www.punch-and-judy.com/what-we-do.html remembers being inspired by this show, the Professor ‘was Tom Kemp, a well known performer who used to claim he was one of the only one…s to have a university degree. That was in the days when a graduate was very unlikely to be a P&J performer. His was the ... Read more

Here’s a very rare photo taken during the construction of the Concert Hall. The building opened in 1916 so this probably dates from 1915. Interesting that such a major piece of work took place during the upheavals of the World War I.