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Old 27-05-2007, 19:36   #1
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Just been playing about with Google earth , zoomed in onto Blackpool and noticed that the Piers seem to be a lot shorter than what I remember them as a kid have they been shortened? or is it a case of age and memory playing tricks

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I'm not aware of any recent changes to them.
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Old 27-05-2007, 19:43   #3
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Were they damaged during those nasty storms of the 80s when a lot of piers were totally destroyed?
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Old 27-05-2007, 19:43   #4
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I'm not aware of any recent changes to them.
I'm going back 40 odd/50 yrs from when I was a little lad and it seemed they stretched way out into the sea
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Old 27-05-2007, 20:12   #5
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Everything seems bigger when your little, look at Wagon Wheels and Cadbury's Creme Eggs
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Old 27-05-2007, 23:00   #6
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There was an helecopter landing thingy at the end of the north pier behind the theatre ,but it was wrecked and fell into the sea a few years ago ,in dreadful weather... no one ever bothered to rebuild it....
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Old 27-05-2007, 23:13   #7
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Creme eggs have definatly got smaller , and no one will convince me any different
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Beechnut chewing gum, & the chocolate bars with the photo of school boys on the front,
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Old 28-05-2007, 07:02   #9
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the north and central piers do have most of them missing on google earth although the south pier looks fully intact!!! very strange!!! believe me they are all still there in real life, well they were yesterday at least.
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Old 28-05-2007, 08:11   #10
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goggle can not show a true representation of the piers, it is software he he, everyone expects so much of technology these days!
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Old 28-05-2007, 08:42   #11
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You are spot on there grego, even certain parts of my anatomy seem to have shrunk with the onsett of old age.
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The reason you get wrinkles is the skin stays the same size but everything else shrinks.
Whats wrong with losing a couple of inches?
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Old 28-05-2007, 12:24   #13
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Wagon wheels WERE larger in years gone by, so were Blue Riband. Crisp packets contained more.
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Old 28-05-2007, 13:59   #14
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You are spot on there grego, even certain parts of my anatomy seem to have shrunk with the onsett of old age.
No need to lower the tone Ian

Had a look on google earth and the North and Central pier do look small, but at least they're there, I've lived in this house for 6 years now and on Google earth its still a building site.
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my house just about makes it on but the surrounding houses are still a building site......
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