Southend Pier Fire 1995 ~ News Reports
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2012
- Southend Pier Fire 1995 at the Bowling Alley end ~ clips from various news reports (copyright remains with these organisations). Elsewhere on my channel you will find video of the 2005 Fire.
My dad worked on the bowling alley when it was first built, and I bowled there for more years than I care to remember.
Thank you for this. Jump to 19:30 and you'll see a 13-year-old me sneaking behind the interviewee on camera. I always remember doing this but never saw it until now. Hahaha
It’s cool that they got to interview John Lithgow as a witness
I remember leaving work there that day and going home getting changed to party for the weekend. Every weekend was at the ship pub and remember see this start early morning round bout 6 am if I remember right. I was just sitting on the beach with the sun coming up and then seeing this happen was not good as I had no work to go back to.
Remember riding my bike down after school to watch it. Quite the spectacle.
strange that something situated above billions of gallons of water should catch fire so many times.
Piers are notorious for catching fire.
Weird. I was only 9 or 10 and remember this news story vividly. Strange to see the old Meridian news logo again, lol.
Lol you must be my age I was round 9 and 10 too I was going to school the morning it happened in Southend.
Should be glad it hasn't happened again, so crazy how small adventure island was back then aswell
The year I was born! I'm 18
I feel old :D
23 now 😂
i was 8 when this happen
man that is sad
+Ace Sharp its built back i went there it holds a world record for the worlds longst peir
Ace Sharp lioio
sinicle me thinking when the bloke said they both got insurance im thinking hmmm quick back hander insurance job maybe?? seems suspious
The Council arranged for it to be burned down because they feared it would attract customers away from the new-developing extension to Peter Pans. (Adventure Island.)
Just like St. Erkenwalds Church. The council removed several roof tiles so the roof would be weather damaged beyond repair thus provoking compulsory demolition of the church.
The council arrange many back-handers to demolish landmarks in the town.
Remember the big London Plane tree on the Victoria Circus roundabout, opposite Victoria Station? The council paid a company to fell this tree in the early hours of the morning so nobody would campaign.
Love the way you spell “cynical”. Pisser.