How well do you know your seaside piers?
Piers are part of the British seaside, like sticks of rock and penny arcades. But how much have you discovered about these coastal runways to nowhere?
1
1. Which celebrity chefs are associated with Southend-on-Sea Pier?
2
2. Southend-on-Sea has the longest pleasure pier, but where is the world’s longest, a 6.5km disembarkation pier for cruise passengers?
3
3. Which pier was awarded Pier of the Year (now in its 24th year) by the National Piers Society in 2020?
4
4. Which British pier was yarn bombed in 2012 when a 50-metre long Olympic-themed woolly scarf mysteriously appeared on the handrails?
5
5. In which British county would you find the ‘haunted’ pier that featured in an episode of the paranormal TV series Most Haunted?
6
6. Visitors to Southwold can’t help but smile at the sight of its prominent clock. The question is, why?
7
7. In which seaside resort might you see people trying to fly off the pier as part of an annual Birdman event?
8
8. Burnham-on-Sea is home to Britain’s shortest pier. How long is it?
9
9. Which island is home to the world’s oldest pier?
10
10. From which US pier might you see sea lions basking in the summer sunshine?
11
11. Which Guinness World Record was broken at Brighton Pier in 2019?
12
12. What is unusual about Birnbeck Pier in Weston-Super-Mare?
13
13. Where in the world is this pier?
14
14. Which famous writer described piers as ‘magnificent, while having no evident purpose at all’?
15
15. On which country’s pier can you go for a dip in a swimming pool?
16
16. Which pier is known as ‘Easter Island’ after its boardwalk collapsed on Easter Monday in 1913?
17
