and one which is a sort of island with a causeway and a "marine lake", now converted to swish apartments (let's see about the rise in sea level that is forecast)
But walking around the headland, there is a third pier (and possibly also a lifeboat station, also derelict). Brilliant views over to Cardiff.
The whole of the northern seafront at Weston is fenced off, with tonnes of marine wreckage on the sand. It can't be doing the place any good, it looks run-down enough as it is: a hundred metres east of the town centre is a tesco with a vast open air car park, and then the station with more vast open space. It is as if the place had been bombed. Maybe it has? *goes to look. Strange place
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Haha... strange to see Weston considered oop north!
Now you mention it, I remember the area around Tesco and the station. I never realised how odd it all was.
Have they finished the new sea defences? When we were there in the summer (a couple of days before the pier burnt down) a lot of the same area was fenced off cos they were installing massive concrete aprons.
Can't see much progress on sea defences although there is work going on. The whole area around Tesco has a strange feel: a large site in the middle of town, just level. Yet a strangely continental feel to the seafront, except that a lot of it is derelict or boarded up.
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