St Annes Pier

St Annes Pier 2, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

Opened in 1885, the original St Annes pier was 914 feet long, and in its heyday featured a 'Moorish' pavillion, a Mock Tudor Entrance buiding and a pier head Floral Hall.
A fire in 1974 damaged the Moorish Pavillion and the substructure of the pier, but an application to Fylde District Council to demolish the damaged seaward section was refused.
A second fire in 1982 destroyed the Floral Hall and damaged the seaward end so badly that it had to be demolished, reducing the pier to its present length of 600 feet.
All of which gave me the opportunity to walk to the end of the pier at low tide and take a series of shots looking back towards the shore.
And you can't do that in Blackpool.