#central pier

[robthepensioner]

The stump of the Big Wheel on Central Pier in Blackpool in November 2016. The Big Wheel was complete again by the summer season, and is still in use every year.

[robthepensioner]

The Big Wheel on Central Pier, Blackpool. This photo was taken in 2014, but the Big Wheel is still dismantled and rebuilt every year so that nobody dies.

[robthepensioner]

Fish and chips on sale for £1.99 at Central Pier, Blackpool. Do not rush to snap up a bargain, though. The photo was taken in 2014.

[blackpoolhistory]

Same view during three different era's stretching as far back as 1913 during a donkey parade opposite Central Pier on the Promenade with the Wellington & Pier Hotel (later a McDonalds and then a gift shop) and The Huntsman hotel (later the Bier Keller building and Happy Dayz amusements) dominating the view in the period photograph.

[blackpoolhistory]

A view of the former Wellington & Pier hotel building and neighbouring amusements opposite Central Pier in 1980.

The buildings have been run-down for a number of years.

The former Huntsman hotel building can be seen in the distance to the far-left of both photo's.

[blackpoolhistory]

The Wellington and Pier Hotel where Chapel Street meets the Promenade opposite the Central Pier.

After spending several years as a small McDonalds restaurant, the building is now a beach store.

In the building next door, the original brickwork and roof windows still remain to this day.

[robthepensioner]

Unusual roof over the dodgems on Central Pier, with a clue as to which town it is in.

[blackpoolhistory]

Formerly the Chapel Street McDonalds which is now a pink-painted gift shop located opposite Central Pier.

The building was originally the Wellington & Pier Hotel back when Central Pier was called South Pier during the 1800's. Today's South Pier, which opened in 1893, started life as Victoria Pier until 1930 when both pier's were renamed to what we have today.

The building is still the original structure from well over 100 years ago.