Foyle’s Pier (With thanks, as so often, to Pete, The Grand Panjandrum of the Pier

"A seaside without a Pier is like a pig without ears"

Superintendent Foyle meets the fisherman played by Ian Hogg on the beach. Some wire entanglements can be seen but the beaches were all off limits in May 1940. The threat of invasion saw all Piers sectioned to prevent them being used as landing stages. Hastings Pier carried a oil pipe line to the end of the Pier from a tank up in White Rock to set fire to the sea in the event of Invasion.

Actor Ian Hogg In Foyle’s War Series 1 Episode 2 The White Feather