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Sentence Examples We sweltered along to the end of the Palace Pier, where Emma and her dad rode the rollercoaster. Members socialized and took time out for a waterborne architectural tour of downtown Chicago and dinner at Navy Pier. Until now, they have been using the existing linkspan at Kirkwall Pier for their Orkney-Aberdeen-Shetland service. Many Olympic revellers will be celebrating the start of the Olympics at Athena's on the Pier. The Pier Hotel at Harwich is already involved, and historical packs with information on the town will also be sent out to potential clients. The warships and support ships at the Pang-nga Naval Pier were in disarray. Cold winds whistled through the railings on the Jacksonville Beach Pier one morning last week. The development will also adjoin a pub and restaurant, as well as being handy for the shops and other visitor attractions in Pier Road. With great determination and energy she led the fundraising to buy and remodel the buildings as the Pier Arts Centre. Yesterday, the animal was sleek and well-covered as he slid into the sea off East Pier in Howth harbour. Airen was waiting on Pier Seven the next morning, her satchel resupplied after having spent the last of her savings from home on quill pens, ink, and parchment. The designer's body was recovered near Pier 59 in Chelsea in the water alongside his docked yacht. One of his mightiest inventions was the Dirigibelle, a vast steam-powered Zeppelin which would lift off from Brighton Pier, and float across the English Channel. Until 1971, Liverpool Riverside railway station served the liner terminal at the Pier Head. Ireland's first railway from Dublin to Kingstown, opened in 1834, terminated near the West Pier. A band is seen playing on a bandstand in this film scene, and this is the actual bandstand on the East Pier. The area to the north of the West Pier at Salthill Beach sees much windsurfing activity over the twelve months of the year. The view of the buildings on Liverpool's Pier Head when crossing on the Mersey Ferry is famous. The couple, surrounded by cheering people and photographers, was then taken to the Lord Warden Hotel at the foot of the Admiralty Pier. On the far end of the North Eastern Breakwater, on the Weymouth side, is the site of B Pier Head Battery. Show More Sentences The Weymouth end breakwater features the C Pier Head Battery on the southern tip. At the C Pier Head Battery a World War II petroleum warfare site was constructed. Many of the major attractions were built in the Victorian era, including the Grand Hotel, the West Pier, and the Brighton Palace Pier. Prior to either of these structures, the famous Chain Pier was built, to the designs of Captain Samuel Brown. Volk's Electric Railway runs along the inland edge of the beach from Brighton Pier to Black Rock and Brighton Marina. Especially east of the Palace Pier, a flat sandy foreshore is exposed at low tide. These run up to every 20 minutes between Embankment Pier and North Greenwich Pier. The Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City includes the Pier Head, Albert Dock, and William Brown Street. In 2007, a new cruise terminal was opened in Liverpool, located alongside the Pier Head in the city centre. The Mersey Ferry, managed and operated by Merseytravel, operates between Pier Head in Liverpool and Woodside in Birkenhead and Seacombe. South Parade Pier was built in 1878 and is among the 55 remaining private piers in the United Kingdom. The present day common lies parallel to the shore from Clarence Pier to Southsea Castle. Currently, Gate 12, Pier B has been upgraded to accommodate the A380, the only gate at the airport that can handle this aircraft so far. However Pier B in Terminal 1 is due to be kept and will be entirely rebuilt. This ticket also covers the cost of passage on the Wightlink catamaran from Portsmouth Harbour to Ryde Pier Head. George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier gives a bleak overview of the hardships of the time. They connect the international gates in the newly opened Pier F, located at one end of the pier, with the rest of the terminal. In the summer of 2016, Navy Pier will have constructed their new DW60 Ferris wheel. Located on Pier 15 on the Embarcadero, the Exploratorium is an interactive science museum. Sandown railway station is still on the one remaining operational railway on the island, which now goes from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin. Show More Sentences Sandown Pier hosts a large amusement centre with arcade games and children's play areas, typical of a seaside resort. Ryde Pier is a listed structure, and the fourth longest pier in the United Kingdom, as well as the oldest. In 1863, the North Pier in Blackpool was completed, rapidly becoming a centre of attraction for elite visitors. Work to extend the Pier Head to allow for additional car parking continued during this period. It was promoted by the Stokes Bay Pier and Railway Company to provide a landing for a rival ferry service from Gosport. The Royal Pier Hotel was built soon after the original pier, to serve its increasing trade and traffic. At the inquest the Pier Hotel was found to be a hazard to drivers, and instead of being repaired its demolition was ordered. Thomas's Street had been removed, and Pier Street itself ceased to exist, becoming part of the Esplanade. At the entrance to the pier was the Pier Hotel, which catered for holidaymakers. From the bus station by Ryde Pier, the path follows the Esplanade close to the beach. There was a scissors crossover situated on Ryde Pier to allow trains to access all platforms. Ryde Pier Head railway station is one of three stations in the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. There are two departures an hour to Ryde Pier Head which connect with Wightlink Ferries which take passengers to Portsmouth Harbour Station. Through rail tickets for travel via Pier Head station are available to and from other stations on the Isle of Wight. The Bembridge branch closed in 1953, and in 1966 the Ryde Pier Head to Ventnor line was truncated to terminate at Shanklin. In 1865 the railway ordered 10 more wagons and bought two carriages from the Ryde Pier Company. On 17 September 1966 regular steam train operation at Ryde Pier Head ceased, the service being temporarily cut back to Esplanade. Passenger services on the line between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin are operated as the Island Line, by South West Trains. From then until 1966, the line was the Junction between the Ryde Pier Head to Ventnor and Ryde Pier Head to Newport Lines. She crossed the Humber from Hull to New Holland Pier swimming the distance in 50 minutes, 6 minutes slower than the men's record. Show More Sentences Elizabeth, Port Rhoades in Discovery Bay, Reynolds Pier in Ocho Rios, and Boundbrook Port in Port Antonio. Waterhead Pier, about one mile south of Ambleside centre, is the departure point for ferries on Windermere. The Bernie's Holiday Camp ballroom sequence was shot inside the Gaiety Theatre on South Parade Pier. The exterior intro sequence to the scene, however, shows Sally Simpson buying a badge and entering South Parade Pier. Wigan Pier, best known from George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, was the name of a wharf on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan. The River Wear flows out of Sunderland between Roker Pier and South Pier, and into the North Sea. South Shields Pier has produced one or two keepable codling, while the River Tyne continues to give mainly undersized codling. But Pier Angeli and Ursula Andress were largely publicity for a man who rated a 5 on the Kinsey scale. The most common is that there was a pool near the Pier Head stained a deep liverish red colour by the peat in the soil. In 1972, the SL Nuneham was sold to a London boat operator and entered service on the Westminster Pier to Hampton Court service. On 24 August, he began a second swim by diving in from the Admiralty Pier at Dover. Despite Parliamentary opposition a Pier and Harbour Provisional Order Bill passed in June 1890 gave him revenue from the harbour dues. On 9 August 2011 a fire broke out at the old Joanna's Nightclub, a derelict building opposite South Parade Pier. Southsea Common is a large expanse of mown grassland parallel to the shore from Clarence Pier to Southsea Castle. The Palace Pier section of the beach has been awarded blue flag status. Discussions took place with the Ryde Pier Company with a view to joint construction of a railway to the pier, but the talks broke down and in 1864 the idea was dropped. To Build a Pier on a scenic island group in the Taiwan Strait. The new section was a private navigation which was not controlled by the Yarmouth Haven and Pier Commissioners, who had responsibility for the rest of the Broadland rivers. Tate Britain and Tate Modern are now connected by a high speed boat along the River Thames, which runs from Millbank Millennium Pier immediately outside Tate Britain. The US Coast Guard Pier was used to film Isthmus City harbour. Show More Sentences Back in the 1960s I worked in Blackpool and often covered the weekly heats of the bathing beauty contest at the open air swimming pool near South Pier. Before the bridge was built, a series of paddle steamers operated from the Corporation Pier railway station at the Victoria Pier in Hull to the railway pier in New Holland. Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1972 film The Canterbury Tales features several of the tales, some of which keep close to the original tale and some of which are embellished. I could only get a single from the Pier Head and get off at Birkenhead, walk up the very steep gangway, show my bus pass again and be issued with a single ticket back. A catamaran service run by Wightlink operates from Ryde Pier to Portsmouth Harbour which connects with both Island Line trains and mainland trains to London Waterloo. A major bus interchange is situated between Ryde Pier and the Hover Terminal on the Esplanade with frequent services to many island towns and villages. In Italy, the most prominent modernist was Gio Ponti, who worked often with the structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, a specialist in reinforced concrete. In 2005, Ryde Pier featured briefly in the film Fragile, in an inaccurate scene where Calista Flockhart is driven along the Pier after leaving a Red Funnel car ferry. From August 2010 to March 2011, Ryde Pier was closed to vehicles to allow structural repairs underneath the promenade pier, which had failed a regular inspection by Trant. Fishing on the block at Whitby East Pier in the Saltburn match over high water, he caught three codling for 7lb 10oz on mixed bait including lugworm and crab. They stop only at special 'heritage stops' next to normal tram stops at Pleasure Beach, North Pier, Cabin, Bispham, Cleveleys and Fleetwood Ferry. Being somewhat shorter than Ryde Pier, it could not be used at all points of the tide, and so offered little competition to the main Ryde to Portsmouth ferry services. Small boats fishing close into the end of Tynemouth Pier have taken pollock to 4lb, mainly on silver spinners or spoons, though sand eels are taking the better specimens. Larkin relies heavily on Orwell's own accounts of his life in Burma, especially The Road to Wigan Pier, though she misses much of his sardonicism and wit. The Loch already sees small craft usage, with the Loch Ryan Sailing club operating from Wig Bay, and Stranraer Marina in Stranraer harbour beside the West Pier. The inshore boat is stored in a stone shed at the base of the East Pier. The offshore boat is normally moored adjoining the Carlisle Pier. Trains connect with passenger ferries to Portsmouth Harbour at Ryde Pier Head, and these ferries in turn connect with the rest of the National Rail network. Cruise ships returned to Liverpool's Pier Head in 2008, berthing at a newly constructed cruise terminal, enabling departures and arrivals at any time. The lease expired in 1903 and the library returned to Pier Street, this time to the Old Banking Library at the corner with Eastgate Street, although this was short lived. Show More Sentences Landfill extends into portions of the lake providing space for Navy Pier, Northerly Island, the Museum Campus, and large portions of the McCormick Place Convention Center. Clarence Pier was officially opened in 1861 by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and was named after the once military governor of Portsmouth, Lord Frederick FitzClarence. It was not until 1880 that two mainland railways companies jointly extended the railway line to the Pier Head, and IoWR trains ran through, improving the journey arrangements. The West Pier, commonly known as the International Pier, was built as part of the 1989 extension project and is the principal international and long haul departure point. Examples from Classical Literature He would fish off Penzance Pier for grey mullet, catching more than his companions. We had spent the day milling around with the crowds enjoying the entertainment around the Pier Head and the Albert Dock. The pounds 8,500 facelift has involved the Pier Head obelisk's granite stonework being cleaned and repointed, plus regilding the sun rise sculptures and crowning torch. It is a good way round from the West Cliff by the Draw-bridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your correspondent is a fairly good runner, and came well ahead of the crowd. But on Sunday May 7, the Big Wheel, swings and roller coaster will all be for fun, as the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation throws its first annual Pier Party. Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite its master's yard. Find more words! 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