Southend Pier and the College Photographers.....

We drove today from Doncaster to Southend on Sea and the weather was murky all the way and when we arrived the light was not good at all, so much so that I will have to revisit and photograph the Pier again.
We came across a group of college students with film cameras and all of them were in the process of dashing around snapping everything in sight.
These two were getting to grips with Portraits.

Tomorrow we are off to Gravesend Town Pier and then over to Deal, I do hope the weather is better.

Tonight we are staying in my caravan at the works, no more Hotels.

The first pier was a 600 foot wooden section opened in 1830. The length had increased to one and a quarter miles by 1846, making it the longest pier in Europe.An extension opened in 1898 making it the longest pier in the world at 7080 feet.
During World War II, the pier was used by the Navy, following the War the electric train was carrying 4,713,082 passengers in its first season (1949/50) and an additional one million people passing through the turnstiles making it the most popular Pier in Britain.
A series of fires in 1976 and 1995 damaged various sections of the Pier, fire struck again in 2005 taking out 130ft of the Pier, by 2012 the repairs should be complete and the Pier will be fully operational.