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Central Pier - The middle pier, includes a large ferris wheel and shops.
Central Pier is constructed mostly of cast iron with wooden decking. The piles on which the structure rests were driven using the screw pile method pioneered by Eugenius Birch. This involved twisting screw-tipped cast iron piles downward through the sand until they hit bedrock.

The pier has suffered relatively little damage save for two fires in 1964 and 1973 which gutted the theatre buildings. The main structural alterations have been the removal of the obsolete 120-metre low tide jetty in 1975 and the construction of the Ferris wheel in 1990. The addition of the wheel required the mid-section of the pier to be strengthened somewhat to cope with the extra weight.

The blue effect of sky and nice colours are mostly made by using an Polarizer Filter, not changed to much.
Edited by Nikon Capture NX: unsharp mask, edited contrast and slightly colours by control points, exported to TIF.
Zoner 9: Croped and framed export to JPG for TE.