Show on mapRedcar Pier was built in 1873, it suffered numerous mishaps with ship collisions, fires, deliberate breaching in WW2Â , damage by a mine explosion and storm damage before finally being demolished in 1981.
The remains of the foundations can still be seen on the beach (Correction – as the new sea wall has since been extended I think this foundation is now gone)
Update 22/07/09 – The location of the pier has just been marked with a new heritage plaque.
Hi there I have photos of redcar pier inside taken by after flooding and the server damage to the sea wall, it must be early 50s and taken when I worked there. Just thought you might like to know don dodsworth
You should post them somewhere would be fascinating to see. I don’t remember the pier as will have been 3 when it was demolished
Hi .I now live in Worcestershire but remember the pier well, I am a Middlesbrough lass and proud of it. But wow what fun we had at the Pier dances during the late 50s early sixties somewhere on the web is a picture of me winning a Miss Sweater girl competion.I remember the ballroom dance classes bit like the Blackpool tower dances but on a smaller scale.I also remember the fishermen coming in on little boats and my dad buying fresh crabs. So sad when the pier went. and even if it were still standing in it’s original form one could never re enact the magic that was dancing with the wind howling and the waves smashing the struts holding up the pier.I never ever witnessed a fight or any signs of trouble .Yes they were the good old days.
Patricia Lancaster
I used to go to a disco on the pier held once a week, as we were all school kids it was not a late finish. I do remember during the winter months, if the weather was bad the whole pier used to sway. It was like dancing on a liner at sea, some of my favorite music came from those dances.
Used to hitch hike from Hampshire where I was stationed in the mid sixties, just to go to the Pier for a Saturday night out, then look forward to the bus ride home to South Bank. It was fun whilst it lasted
My company (Demex) bought the pier for a nominal sum and demolished it for the scrap value. I spent weeks on site supervising the work in bitterly cold weather. I remember the tide coming in fast and almost stranding our machines on the beach several times. The only way on and off was via the concrete ramps
Hi I was going through my dad stuff from the war and found firing papers to blow the pier up it the enemy go to close
JUST FOUND A POST CARD FROM 6TH JUNE, POSSIBLE WAR YEARS OR AFTER IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. can i upload the picture ??
My dad was Danny Mitchell the dance band leader at the Pier Ballroom for over 20 years. I still have his old scrapbooks.
Robert Mitchell.