UK - Brighton - West Pier ruin and deck chairs

Looking south out to sea, we see the stony shingle of the seaside town of Brighton whose blue and red stripe beach deck chairs and ruined West Pier stand like statues. It is mid-afternoon yet there are no people seen on this East Sussex beach in England. The West Pier has seen a series of tragic accidents and fires that have left this Victorian iron structure to almost fall into the sea. Several restoration projects have promised to safeguard its future but finance has always been an issue. It therefore stands like a monument to a bygone era of seaside amusement. The sea is relatively calm but the canvass of the deck-chairs billow slightly in a slight breeze.

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Looking south out to sea, we see the stony shingle of the seaside town of Brighton whose blue and red stripe beach deck chairs and ruined West Pier stand like statues. It is mid-afternoon yet there are no people seen on this East Sussex beach in England. The West Pier has seen a series of tragic accidents and fires that have left this Victorian iron structure to almost fall into the sea. Several restoration projects have promised to safeguard its future but finance has always been an issue. It therefore stands like a monument to a bygone era of seaside amusement. The sea is relatively calm but the canvass of the deck-chairs billow slightly in a slight breeze.