Beaumaris Pier
53°15′40.89″N 4°5′24.31″W / 53.2613583°N 4.0900861°W
Anglesey County Council | |
Characteristics | |
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Total length | 570 feet (170 m) |
History | |
Designer | Frederick Foster |
Opening date | 1846 |
Beaumaris Pier is a pier in Beaumaris, Anglesey, North Wales.
Construction
Designed by Frederick Foster, it had a concrete and stone neck, wooden piles supporting iron girders, and a wooden deck. After opening in 1846, it was rebuilt in 1872 along the new classical Victorian era civil engineering lines, with screw piles made from iron, steel supporting girders and a wooden deck. In 1895, works extended its deck length to 570 feet (170 m), with a T-shaped pontoon end, a pavilion, and added a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) railway baggage line.[1]
History
The reason for the reconstruction was to attract the pleasure steamers of the Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company, which plied to and from Liverpool, Llandudno and the Isle of Man along the Menai Strait. An accessible pier meant that Beaumaris could compete for summer traffic alongside the similarly equipped Garth Pier at Bangor.[1]
The most frequent steamers to call were the Snowdon, La Marguerite and St. Elvies. In the 1920s the local
The popularity of pleasure steamer services began to drop before
In the 1960s, through lack of maintenance, the pier became unsafe and was again threatened with demolition. But local yachtswoman and
In August 2010,
Present
The refurbished Beaumaris Pier was unveiled for the 2011 season. There are refurbished seats with new planking, shelters plus an end pavilion, and a dual-purpose landing stage. Visitors can buy a license to enable
In 2017 filming took place on the pier for the Netflix TV series Free Rein and scenes there were used in all three series.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Beaumaris Pier". National Piers Society. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Beaumaris Pier". theheritagetrail.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Beaumaris Pier". beaumaris.org.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Everything you need to know about Free Rein - the Netflix drama being filmed in North Wales". Retrieved 22 April 2021.