A Pier without a middle!

Looking good!

• The two service pods, that will provide toilets and kitchen support areas, have been clad with 75 year old wood from the old pier deck.
• The cupolas were reconstructed using the same method as originally implemented 100 years ago.
• The zinc roof took six weeks to complete.
• The original capping has been shot blasted, desalinate, repaired and reinstalled.

Visitor Centre - Construction Update

The complex structure of diagonal and horizontal bracing to support the Visitor Centre steelwork is being completed.  These struts generally weigh over one tonne each and have to be held in place by the crane whilst a steel worker, in a basket from another crane, is lowered down to fix the bolts to the clamps.  The clamps are bolted to the six steel/concrete piles which ultimately carry the 600 tonne load of the building.

The next operation will be the forming of the reinforced concrete slab.  Constructing the slab will be a complex operation as firstly a troughed steel deck is laid on the steelwork.  Then steel bar reinforcement is fixed in place to provide the tensile strength and to tie the slab to the existing Pier steelwork.  Finally the concrete!

This  will be  pumped the from the loading bay on the Promenade.  Well over 100 tonnes of concrete wii be pumped nearly 200 metres along the Pier in one continuous operation.  The slab should be completed by mid-July.  It will then be ready for the pre-fabricated timber building that will be erected on top to form the Visitor Centre.
July Newsletter available at http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8a4088db8993613ffc321ff30&id=483de8b756&e=531273b27b

‘The People’s Pier: Heritage as a Catalyst for Regeneration’

In October 2014 during Hastings week over 70 people gathered to hear about various aspects of heritage, with a particular focus on local history and community involvement.

Beatrice Rapley,  Learning and Education Manager at Hastings Pier Charity , gave the audience an insight into the importance of the community in her ‘The People’s Pier: Heritage as a Catalyst for Regeneration’ presentation, . Beatrice talked about the history of the pier, about when the pier was almost completely destroyed by fire in 2010 and the subsequent restoration project and the community involvement with that project. (Hastings Pier presentation PDF )

Cultural Regeneration through Heritage: Hastings, Heritage and Local History – Brighton University - http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/exchange/2015/07/06/cultural-regeneration-through-heritage-hastings-heritage-and-local-history/ – posted 6 July 2015

Adopt a plank update

There have been a lot of enquiries about the Adopt A Plank scheme which closed in 2013.  HPC are currently putting together a register of all the information which was received from HPWRT who ran the scheme. 

The register will be posted on the HPC website and will give details of the names and requested wording of the people who adopted a plank according to the records held.

Please keep a look out on the website for the page which will be uploaded in the next two weeks,  http://www.hpcharity.co.uk, or check back here.

Advance Warning!

The concrete for the visitor centre base will be poured on Monday 13^th July. 

The Promenade will be be closed during the concrete pumping operations for safety reasons.

Pier volunteers will be available to help guide pedestrians 07:00 until approx. 16:00

Seagull alert!

Series 10 of Coast. Our 'Holiday Coast' …………

…… is the first in the run on Thursday 9th July at 9pm on BBC Two.

Featuring ‘The Seaside Suffragette’