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Swanage

Reference: DO66
Location: Dorset
Gallery: Dorset,

Originally I had in mind a head on shot of the Old Pier but my favourite image was this one taken at an angle so that the Wellington Clock Tower became a perfect focal point. The Gribble worm (a marine wood-boring crustacean) caused the damage to the pier by eating away the wood between the sea bed and the high water level. With many missing railings and parts of the promenade extremely unsafe due to several of the piles being completely eaten through the Pier eventually had to be closed. The Wellington clock tower originally stood at the southern end of London Bridge but it did not keep good time and with increasing traffic it became something of an obstruction and it was removed to Swanage in 1867, although the clock never came.