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PIERS AND POSTCARDS – REMINDERS OF AN ENGLAND PAST

By on October 24, 2012 in 617 squadron, Barnes Wallis, Birnbeck Pier, bouncing bomb, Burford, Cardiff, Clevedon, Dambusters, Somerset, Victorian, Wales, Weston-super-Mare

Browsing in a Burford antique shop recently, I ran across this postcard showing Birnbeck Pier in the early 1900s. I never knew that Weston-super-Mare had two piers, let alone this splendid example, the only pier in England that links the mainland to an island, even if Birnbeck Island is just a rocky outcrop jutting above [...]

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