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    anybody know exactly how long Tynemouth and South Shields piers are. Bet TC does
    Alan

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    Who needs the internet when you have a wife and a wealth of books

    The building of both piers started in 1854 and where not finished until 1895
    South Shields being the longest at 5,150 feet and Tynemouth Pier a mere 2,950 feet at a cost of £1,564,232. Distance between pier ends 1,180 feet.
    Other records vary slightly
    Alan

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    • #3
      Lol Alan.....\"seek and ye shall find\", eh ???

      Sorry I didn\'t see this earlier.

      BTW......the length of the South pier does vary - it\'s twice as long on the way back down when you\'ve spent all night on it in the wind and rain, and haven\'t had so much as a bite

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      • #4
        a lad i work with reckons when he was a kid he had a 6 feet boat rod and a penn squidder
        and he cast from the small wall on south shields pier and the tide was coming in
        he got snagged around the front of the north pier
        i had to bite my lip when he told us that


        sless

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        • #5
          I bet it feels even longer if you have a great big bag of fish. I wouldnt know though, anybody verify this assumption or do you jog and dance all the way down
          Alan

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          • #6
            I read somewhere on the net that Tynemouth had to be rebuilt just after it was completed due to a breach 3/4 of the way along. I\'m trying to find the site, but here\'s a pic to be going on with....

            Davy

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            • #7
              There was (is?) an exhibition of photos of old Tynemouth and the pier in the art gallery on Tynemouth main street.

              I had a look in a couple of weeks back, and saw that very same picture !

              I didn`t realise that the Duke of Northumberland owns so much of the land down that way, mind.

              If it`s still on the go, the pictures are well worth a look at.
              Demons run when a good man goes to war...

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              • #8
                I didn`t realise that the Duke of Northumberland owns so much of the land down that way
                I have just had to re check my Deeds on the House to check he doesnt own it - he seems to have most of Northern England the Greedy Tw*t

                and sorry Alan - it was your thread after all

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                • #9
                  davy just stick Tynemouth piers or Tynemouth into Google and all sorts of stuff come up, except how long the piers are that is
                  Alan

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                  • #10
                    I knew this had come up before.....

                    Have a look here, Alan:

                    http://www.nesa.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread &tid=2817#pid14567

                    Goes back to Sept 2004

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                    • #11
                      Daft as it might sound I remember reading it .
                      You can take the lad out of Walker but .......

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                      • #12
                        Just goes to show..........sometimes you just don\'t need Google........just use our own search engine .....lol

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                        • #13
                          cheers TC, Google failed anyway, the missus found the info in one of her reference books. Never thought of using nesa search, try that first next time.
                          Alan

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