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15/03/2009, 9:51 PM Busman Joined on 15/03/2009 Posts 17 Your earliest memories of the pier and pavilion? So what are your earliest memories of the pier and pavilion? I went to Weston college from 1979 to 1981 and during the first few months spent many a happy hour skiving off from lectures and instead whiling my life away in the arcades and in the pavilion on the pier. Abolutely loved it, playing the arcade games, dabbling with the fruit machines and generally having a whale of a time. I used to love going on the pier - such a pleasant stroll along the main walkway to the pavilion and such a uniquely fantastic atmosphere in the pavilion itself - so airy and spacious yet full of a real sense of fun and history. There was just SOMETHING about the pavilion which, even though you were playing on the then modern arcade and fruit machines, you were still somehow in the past. Hard to explain my feelings really, but it's how I remember the place. Incidentally, does anyone remember that annoying clucking chicken gift machine at the pavilion entrance? I couldn't believe that when I re-visited the pavilion a few years ago it was still there, clucking away merrily! By the way, re-visiting the old place a few years ago was quite an experience - I hadn't been on the pier for a few years, but as I strolled down the walkway and got ever closer to the pavilion, I became pretty choked up with emotion. It had been so many years ago when I first visited but, from the outisde at least, it was just the same. I felt like I had stepped back in time - such an intense emotional experience, both sad and extremely happy. Inside of course the machines had changed, but the atmosphere remained exactly the same. Simply and utterly wonderful. And now the pavilion is gone. And I'm STILL gutted.    Report

16/03/2009, 10:34 AM Sean Miller Joined on 02/10/2008 Weston-super-Mare Posts 838 Re: Your earliest memories of the pier and pavilion? Walls Ice Cream. That's my memory of it... granny always bought us one each... and the fact that the arcade games were so much more expensive than on Birnbeck... so we'd visit the Grand Pier but then retire to the much more pleasant "old pier" for the rest of the day, for a spell of Gorf and similar classics :-) Sean    Report

12/05/2009, 8:57 PM villan Joined on 11/05/2009 Posts 5 Re: Your earliest memories of the pier and pavilion? I remember coming on holiday every year to weston since the early 60's with my mom and dad. We used to come on 'speck' and after about a four hour journey from B'ham in a mini the first job was to find some digs down Locking Rd....then it was off to the Sea Front. Walking down past the floral clock the Grand Pier soon came into view...then i knew we were really on holiday. My dad (RIP) loved Weston and i'm sure would have liked to live there but it was'nt to be. We had some wonderful times away from the dirt and grime of 60's B'ham...my dad used to say "at least if it rains it will be clean rain". Weston holds a very special place in many Brummies hearts and we all look forward to the Grand Pier being rebuilt along with the open air pool (Tropicana)...My dad would have been proud.    Report

18/05/2009, 8:48 PM Rob Joined on 05/08/2008 Birmingham Posts 28 Re: Your earliest memories of the pier and pavilion?  villan wrote: I remember coming on holiday every year to weston since the early 60's with my mom and dad. We used to come on 'speck' and after about a four hour journey from B'ham in a mini the first job was to find some digs down Locking Rd....then it was off to the Sea Front. Walking down past the floral clock the Grand Pier soon came into view...then i knew we were really on holiday. My dad (RIP) loved Weston and i'm sure would have liked to live there but it was'nt to be. We had some wonderful times away from the dirt and grime of 60's B'ham...my dad used to say "at least if it rains it will be clean rain". Weston holds a very special place in many Brummies hearts and we all look forward to the Grand Pier being rebuilt along with the open air pool (Tropicana)...My dad would have been proud.   Reading your post brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye because everything you said! was the exact same for me! Every year at the end of may holliday me and my parents would always go to weston and I always had such a fantastic time and every evening we would be on the grand pier it was such a lovely feeling! I hope the new pier brings us many more happy memorys!   A weston loving brummie   Rob :)    Report

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