The six new piles for the Visitor Centre on the pier have all been installed and trimmed to the required level. Each pile is a 23 metres long, 610mm diameter steel tube filled with steel reinforcement and concrete.
When restoration work has been completed, approximately 350 trusses and 820 deck beams will have been replaced, ie about 3,000 tonnes of new steel! Also, work on the old Pavilion continues; the roof and construction of the pods have been completed, the walls are being re-built and the windows and sliding doors are being added.
For more information go to the website.
G'day Steve - my first attempt seems to have disappeared so apols if in fact you got it, if not here I go again:
ReplyDeleteI worked briefly on the Hastings Observer with Russell Claughton and am now living in Australia. Thought you'd be interested in my blog as a fellow former journalist working out how to keep doing what we're doing in this brave new world. Soz - haven't found any money in it yet - but I write about journalism and, occasionally, Hastings. Link's to one I did last year on Jack-in-the-Green as an example.
Best of luck to you and everyone in dear old Hastings
https://sallybaxter.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/a-dance-to-welcome-the-merry-month-of-may/