The town boasted a Victorian pleasure pier, with fine attractions, including a pavilion and miniature steam railway running up and down it.

The developers immediately began construction of the Pinewald pavilion and pier at the end of Butler Avenue.

The River Front is home to a boat launch, a thirty-foot fishing pier, a pavilion, a gazebo, and a kayak launch.

However it has had a leisure function in the past, with the pier head once containing a pavilion.

In 2006, plans went out for a foreshore re-development, which included promenade widening and saw the demolition of the bicentennial pavilion which marked the land end of the St Kilda pier.

Construction work began on the pier and new pavilion in 2009, and was scheduled to re-open in July 2010 following a £ 39 million re-building programme.

In 1910, a pavilion was added to the landward end of the pier.

In 1907 a pavilion ballroom was built on the pier behind the entrance kiosks and in 1928 the pavilion was extended.

The pavilion continued in use after the war however progressive storm damage to the pier led to it being declared unsafe and it was demolished over the ends of years 1980 – 1981.

The pier was rebuilt and extended to after storm damage in 1872, and a large pavilion was constructed at the end which contained a cafe.

In 1929, the pier was bought by Penarth Borough Council, who added a new pier-head berthing pontoon, and in 1930 the current art deco pavilion was added.

In March 2011 planning permission was granted for a £ 3. 9 million revamp of the pier to re-open the pavilion as a major tourist attraction.

The pier featured a variety of recreational activities in a resort pavilion.

Wren was trying to disarm a terrorist's nuclear device, which had been traced to a pavilion at the end of a seaside pier at Byfield Regis.

It offers trails, a boardwalk through a freshwater tidal marsh, a pier, a pavilion, a laboratory building, and several cabins for use by school groups.

The pier did not have much of a superstructure until 1893 when a pier head was extended and a pavilion added.

On 28 March 2003 the pavilion at the end of the pier caught fire.

The pavilion at Lake Erie included a roller skate rink, a dance hall, restaurant and rides on a pier above the water.

It consists of eight spans supported by steel rails covered by wooden decking, with a pavilion on the pier head.

The pavilion on the pier head

In 1893 the pier head was replaced in cast iron with a new timber landing stage, and the pier head pavilion was completed in 1894.

In the 18th century Aberdour's harbour was improved by the addition of a stone pier to help handle the coal traffic from nearby collieries.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

It was a popular tourist spot with several guest houses, restaurants, cafes, several brick houses and a small harbour with a pier for small trading ships.

Externally and internally the building remains largely intact, though the signage on the external decorative pier now reads " B-L-O-U-Z-A ", rather than the original " H-O-Y-T-S " ( later it was " B-I-N-G-O ").

In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C & O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point.

However, building the railroad and coal pier was only the first part of Huntington's dreams for Newport News.

Below this site was the Bull Ring ( now a memorial garden ), and a grand pleasure pier, started in 1880, which provided a dance hall, refreshment, promenading and a landing place for boat trips.

The pier was destroyed by German bombing in World War II.

First to the scene were 116 cadets under the direction of Lieutenant Commander H. J. Copeland from USS Nantucket, a training ship of the Massachusetts Nautical School ( which is now the Massachusetts Maritime Academy ), that was docked nearby at the playground pier.

Due to a lack of federal funding, it was not until 1872 that two brick buildings and a " T " shaped pier were constructed and officially declared a Navy Yard.

However it never received a proper seagoing test as, when the ship demolished part of the Calais pier on her maiden voyage, investor confidence was lost and the ship was scrapped.

The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of $ 4. 5 million, equivalent to $ today.

When it opened to the public in 1916, it was the largest pier in the world.

Building and enlarging the islands, along with the new Concorde Bridge built to connect them with the site-specific mass transit system known as the Montreal Expo Express, plus a boat pier, cost more than the Saint Lawrence Seaway project did only five years earlier: this was even before any buildings or infrastructure were constructed.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

A further development was the flying buttress which arched externally from the springing of the vault across the roof of the aisle to a large buttress pier projecting well beyond the line of the external wall.

By D + 10 the harbor became operational when the first pier was completed ; LST 342 docking and unloading 78 vehicles in 38 minutes.

During Floyd, the Jacksonville Beach pier was completely destroyed.

The rebuilt pier was later heavily damaged by Fay, but not destroyed.

Lon Chaney, who was not working that day and who had previously played the Monster in Ghost of Frankenstein, took over the role of the Monster for that scene as well as the scene where the monster is throwing barrels and crates at Wilbur and Chick while they are trying to escape in a rowboat at the pier.

The next day, the police call him and let him know the Sternwoods ' car was found driven off a pier with their chauffeur dead inside.

Brody was staking out the house too and pursued the driver, stole the film, and hit him and possibly pushed the car off the pier.

Another architectural breakthrough at Chartres was a resolution to the problem of how to arrange attached columns or shafts around a pier in a way that worked aesthetically – but which also satisfied the desire for structural logic that characterised French high gothic.

This pier design, known as pilier cantonné was to prove highly influential and subsequently featured in a number of other high gothic churches.