Worthing Pier

Oh the memories!
This pier has been a big part of my life since I was really small, memories of going to the amusements with my family, walks along there with other family and friends and then later on nights out in the club which was at the end for many years. In fact I met my husband in that club so it definitely is a place close to my heart.
This pier has just had a lot of work done to it, the club is going to be a wedding venue and tea rooms and they have completely refurbished it to look the way it did previously.

Lovely place to go for a drink on a friday eve when the sun is shining in Worthing.

I have always enjoyed spending time on the pier, and under it!!! I refer to the photographic opportunities of the spider construction work, and the contrasting lighting conditions

der Pier ist ein Must have to see in Worthing

Worthing pier has not really got anything on it. There is a big arcade which is full of great arcade games, very entertaining! The view and the feeling when stood at the end of the pier is great. It is always so quiet and peaceful, not many people on there at a time which is nice.

I used to live on Worthing seafront as a child within walking distance of the pier, and always enjoyed coming here as there were so many things to do! There were fairground-​type stalls where you could play hoop-​la and other games to try to win prizes of cuddly toys, and there was an amusement arcade too full of machines which gobbled up my pennies. We also visited the concerts as a family. I remember it was 6d (old pence) to get onto the pier in those far off days but I don’t remember what we paid when visiting fairly recently. However, it’s still a lovely pier to walk along and has been greatly improved and restored. There are many shops along the length. I particularly like the views looking back towards the town.

Worthing Pier is the most notable attraction on Worthing’s long but otherwise rather quiet seafront. It is a grade-​II listed building.
Like many piers, it has had an eventful past. Built in 1862, the pier partly collapsed in a great storm in 1913, isolating the pavilion at the seaward end. The land-​side North Pavilion was built by Adshead & Ramsey in 1926 after the Borough Council acquired the pier, but disaster struck again in 1933 when a fire destroyed the original pier-​end South Pavilion. However, the replacement Art Deco building of 1935 and the smaller central Pavilion are among the best preserved of their type. The pier is 300m (984ft) long, and there are glazed art-​deco style windbreaks along its whole length.
Like the rest of Worthing, the attractions along the pier are low-​key: the land-​end pavilion is a 1,000-seat theatre used for concerts and summer shows, and includes a small café; the Central Pavilion is used as an amusement arcade, and the South Pavilion is used as a nightclub (returning from this at 3am on a stormy winter’s night, after a few bevvies, must be some experience). There are a few kiosks along its length, selling the requisite fish & chips and ice creams.
The seaward end still has its landing stages, and is visited several times a year by coastal passenger ships such as the Paddle Steamer Waverly and the MV Balmoral, on short south-​coast pleasure trips. For the rest of the year, is pier is busy with dozens of anglers of all ages. The pier is currently undergoing a 15-​year restoration programme, and in 2006 won the ‘Pier of the Year’ award for this work.
Diving and jumping from the pier is forbidden. However, in July 2008 the annual ‘Birdman’ event was due to be held here (having moved here from Bognor Regis pier). This involves people in costumes and crazy ‘flying machines’ jumping, running or cycling off the end, with prizes for the furthest ‘flight’ and the wackiest outfits. However, the event had to be cancelled at the last minute, thanks to the unseasonably stormy weather. Let’s hope things are kinder in 2009