Southport Pier, Merseyside has been closed for five months, leaving locals and business owners fighting to survive.
Southport Pier, Merseyside has been closed for five months, leaving locals and business owners fighting to survive and in desperate need of a cash injection from the tourist season
One is the railway train that usually travels the length of the pier, which runs for 1km, and the other is the cafe business - which hasn't been able to operate since they had to shut up shop two weeks before Christmas due to 'ice-damage'. Shaking his head as he struggles to comprehend what is happening, the dad-of-two adds: "I can't even find the words to describe it."
He shows the locked-up cafes, ice-cream van, inside his recently refurbished cafe and bar, and turns on the arcade machines after opening up the shutters. If the pier remains shut over its busiest period during the summer season, he estimates to lose out on roughly £600,000 turnover. "We have people come from all over, coach trippers, and when they arrive they’re disappointed to see it's not open," he says.
A string of TripAdvisor comments from dissatisfied visitors complain that they couldn't find it, with one writing: "Does the tide ever come in? I can't find one picture of it even over the net."
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