New Brighton Pier, Wallasey, Wirral, Merseyside. 8th August 1950. "Birch designed 14 seaside piers in total, including Brighton's West Pier, Blackpool North Pier, Hastings Pier, and Eastbourne Pier.

Travelling on a ferry, made world-famous by Gerry Marsden, from Liverpool’s Pier Head down the Mersey to the point where it meets the Irish Sea, then jumping off at New Brighton. For a day of ...

New Brighton has had four landmarks, the tower, the pier, Fort Perch Rock and the Dome of Home, according to Mr Jones. The tower was dismantled in the 1920s and the pier in the 1970s.

New Brighton, on the northern tip of the Wirral peninsula in Merseyside, was once a booming holiday destination boasting the longest promenade in the country, a pier and a tower bigger than ...

New Brighton's downturn was well-documented in the 1980s, particularly through photographer Martin Parr’s 1986 collection, The Last Resort, which depicted the town as a faded seaside attraction ...

It sounds a frustratingly familiar story. An imperious 19th Century pier is allowed to decay and disintegrate through years of neglect.

It has been 44 years since New Brighton had a pier, but it is still fondly remembered by many. There is plenty of Facebook debate about what should be done to boost the seaside town, with talk of ...

New Brighton, on the northern tip of the Wirral peninsula in Merseyside, was once a booming holiday destination boasting the longest promenade in the country, a pier and a tower bigger than ...