haunted piers

Piers

No, not Piers Anthony.

I mean those wonderful old structures,  which were built

when seaside holidays took off, as fun spaces 

and fairgrounds, along the English coast.

Many today are falling into the sea, are rotting away,

or have fallen foul of arson

e.g Brighton's now skeletal West Pier, and Hastings, 

Hastings pier

 which has had such a shocking fire trauma in 2010, 

after having been restored, and i remember 

sitting in a cafe there as late as 2008;

 and Eastbourne, fire wounded only the other year

Eastbourne pier

I went there for a day trip the week after the fire.

My brother was on holiday there in a flat overlooking it!

Has somebody got a grievance against piers, and assassinating them?

Then, there's the old dance hall in a pier on the lake,

in Carnival of Souls..... very spooky indeed.

An empty pier is a strange haunted thing.

Members of my ancestral family were employed 

to caretake a pier, and burnt it down by accident!

I've researched that incident... and although it isn't a ghost

Story, I'll tell that too, as it exists now as a memory....

But i will  tell the tales of some haunted piers

In the next few blogs......