The Wreckage that once was the Brow to Rochester Pier....

[oldgit]

..................has all finally been removed.
Pontoon looks to be in a floating condition and remains.
The airdraft of Rochester Pier prevents any but the smallest of sailing craft getting under Rochester Bridge to gain public access to shore.
The brow to Strood Pier vanished a decade or two ago and never returned.
Only public access now from the river is Sun Pier, not exactly the most salubrious area of Chatham !
Ship Pier is in private ownership and quietly falling to pieces.
Medway Towns has population of just under 300,000.
A go ahead progressive urban authority would simply upsticks the old pier and resite below the bridge opposite where all the expensive new houses are being built on the redeveloped Gas Works site ?
A short walk to the old High St with its shops, pubs and resturants ?
Lots of pairs of eyes means some security for those daring to leave their moored craft to go and spend some euros ? in the fleshpots of the High St.

 

[Parabordi]

..................has all finally been removed.
Pontoon looks to be in a floating condition and remains.
The airdraft of Rochester Pier prevents any but the smallest of sailing craft getting under Rochester Bridge to gain public access to shore.
The brow to Strood Pier vanished a decade or two ago and never returned.
Only public access now from the river is Sun Pier, not exactly the most salubrious area of Chatham !
Ship Pier is in private ownership and quietly falling to pieces.
Medway Towns has population of just under 300,000.
A go ahead progressive urban authority would simply upsticks the old pier and resite below the bridge opposite where all the expensive new houses are being built on the redeveloped Gas Works site ?
A short walk to the old High St with its shops, pubs and resturants ?
Lots of pairs of eyes means some security for those daring to leave their moored craft to go and spend some euros ? in the fleshpots of the High St.

what is 'The Brow'???

 

[Juan Twothree]

what is 'The Brow'???

It's the bridge/walkway that connects the pontoon to the land.

 

[oldgit]

It's the bridge/walkway that connects the pontoon to the land.

what is 'The Brow'???

It's the bit of head above the eyes

 

[Parabordi]

It's the bridge/walkway that connects the pontoon to the land.

Learn something new every day

 

[RivalRedwing]

..................has all finally been removed.
Pontoon looks to be in a floating condition and remains.
The airdraft of Rochester Pier prevents any but the smallest of sailing craft getting under Rochester Bridge to gain public access to shore.
The brow to Strood Pier vanished a decade or two ago and never returned.
Only public access now from the river is Sun Pier, not exactly the most salubrious area of Chatham !
Ship Pier is in private ownership and quietly falling to pieces.
Medway Towns has population of just under 300,000.
A go ahead progressive urban authority would simply upsticks the old pier and resite below the bridge opposite where all the expensive new houses are being built on the redeveloped Gas Works site ?
A short walk to the old High St with its shops, pubs and resturants ?
Lots of pairs of eyes means some security for those daring to leave their moored craft to go and spend some euros ? in the fleshpots of the High St.

couldn't agree more but they are skint, the previous party in power down here and the bean counters up the London river have left the current crowd with a problem and it looks like the reserves, as a minimum, will be required to fill the black hole.

 

[oldgit]

Circa £138 K has allegedly been allocated to the repair and refitting of the brow.
Some cynics have suggested that amount of funding would barely cover recovery and removal of the brow from the river bed. ?
The brow of Strood Pier has been sitting up on the wall near the Bulls Nose at Chatham for couple of decades at least.
Debates about who owns Medways Piers and infrostructure , including Faversham bridge and lock Gates.
KCC , MDC and Peel Ports all claim its somebody elses problem.