Mechanical Memories Magazine

Weston Super-Mare (re-visited)
By Stuart Dale
Over the years I must have been to Western Super Mare on Holiday about five or six
times. I remember the last time I was there was in mid July 2008. We stopped at a
hotel that was just up the road from the Grand Pier, not knowing that a few days after
we went home the Grand Pier would be burnt to the ground. The Grand pier had only
just changed hands in February 2008 when brother and sister Kerry & Michelle
Michael took ownership, and they had already invested £1 million pounds in its
restoration. At this point many people would have walked away and left the pier to rot,
but not the Michael's, they just picked themselves up and got on with the mammoth
job of rebuilding the pier. After two years of hard work the Grand pier reopened on
October 2010, and on that first weekend they had an estimated 100.00 visitors, which
for any seaside pier is amazing.
The new pavilion on the Grand pier.
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