Southport Pier

Took a tram ride along the pier which was £2.00 return, lovely scenery and on a clear day you can see Blackpool, there is a café and a mini arcade, people were fishing all in all very nice

In Southport lies the most *chilling* encounter I have ever experienced in my life! I was truly terrified! It started innocently enough by walking along the Pier and seeing a little store at the end of the boardwalk. It had all these old fashioned Penny arcade games that I imagine that once was popular back in its heyday.
We wandered around to find more games to play until we came upon the scariest sight! It was an old automaton doll dressed in a sailor boy’s suit. The doll was sitting inside a glass case and it advertised in paint «Have a laugh with Jolly Jack.»
The doll had the most sadistic upturned smile and its eyes were rolled back in its head giving it an eerie, possessed look! Its arms hung limply at its side. The rivets on its sailor costume had rusted over and bled into the white fabric which gave it an appearance of dried blood! We had no idea what we would encounter if we paid a penny, but we were way too curious not to. Lukas bravely put a penny in the machine and then we stood back and watched with trepidation. Immediately, Jolly Jack’s chest started to rumble up and down like it was trying to catch its breath and then suddenly it broke out into the most shrill and skin crawling laugh I’ve ever heard! Its whole body bobbed up and down and its head rolled side to side while the mouth cackled in that demonic laugh!
I’ve always had a thing about dolls, but this one topped them all! It just kept laughing! It was by far one of the creepiest things I’ve ever encountered. Eventually the doll stopped twisting and lolling around and settled back into its original position.
It took us a little while to get over the heebie-​jeebies. Unfortunately, we saw two young Englishwomen behind us putting money into Jolly Jack. We tried to warn them, but it was too late! From the horrified expressions and their dropped jaws we could tell there is equally traumatized. They walked away in the daze never to return. Lukas and I still have reoccurring nightmares from this!”

Southport pier is great, it’s very very long and when you get to the end your amazed at how far out to sea you’ve actualy walked! There is also a little tram that takes you from front to end if the long walk isn’t for you, but lovely strolll on a nice day.
Penny arcade at the end, you change real cash for old penny’s to play. Also a café there too and dohnut stall. icecreme ect, lots of seats to chill on and a skate park wich is interesting to watch as there are some very talented kids on there!
Yep great pier, great place and gorgeous views and sunsets.

Southport Pier is one of our favourite places and probably one we photograph most. Sunsets are amazing from the pier and the chances of a great shot of the Pier Silhouetting the Sunset is spectacular.
The Pier itself is a fantastic place to Walk on a nice day. It’s surprising how far you are actually walking out from the Foreshore but it doesn’t seem like it when you are just strolling along. The Pier Head Penny Arcade is a must see however that Café can be a bit Pricey. None the less, Southport Pier is a great place and we highly recommend visiting.
On a personal note; be careful on rainy and frosty days. The deck boards can be slippery as can the tram rails.

very good to walk down the pier or get the tram down to the bottom of the pier were there is a café and old fashioned arcade, café a bit pricey but still good.

I went here a couple of years ago to help with a book stall for an event. I can’t really say a whole lot about the place except that it was big and made a good conference centre.
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Staff were generally friendly and helpful. However, there was an incident where a driver injured himself and it took the staff at the pavilion far too long to come up with a first aid kit. I was really not impressed. It was as if no one had ever been told where to find it.
Other than that, you’ll have to rely on any future reviews for more information! But I’d take your own first aid kit if I were you. :p

A fovourite family location. The pier was recently rebuilt and so is in good condition. There is a small café /​visitor centre /​old penny arcade at the far end which is a welcome stop when you finally make it. Don’t expect to see the sea very often although it does make it to the end of the pier occasionally. Remember to wrap up well in Winter as the return journey can be in the wind which you didn’t notice on the way out.

Southport Pier is amazing! And so is the train; because its a long pier, you actually need that train if you’re with anyone elderly. There’s an old fashioned pay per view telescope at the end of the pier, and an exploratory oil rig is just about visible with it. The shore looks a long, long way away, and of course it is. The café has a beautiful view to the south, and sells the normal variety of hot drinks and food — nothing special, I have to say.
The pier is very simple and plain compared to the amusement arcades, music and kiosks on a south coast pier, but is all the more atmospheric for that.
The train runs beyond the shore and the boating lakes, to the town proper, although its not exactly the centre of the town.

Fantastic pier, at the end is a café with old fashioned arcade machines that take old pennies (you can change 10p for a penny!) Kids can win kitkats and penny sweets or play with old arcade games. Café is cheap and cheerful. A train goes up and down at about £1.50. Can’t always promise the sea will be in though!