Birnbeck Pier and old signalling station... © Helen Iwanczuk cc-by-sa/2.0  :: Geograph Britain and Ireland

'The Birnbeck' tea room, a fine-looking gift shop, a few automatic vending machines and a weighing machine. Just after the tea room was constructed in 1912. At the absolute peak of the pier's popularity there are, oddly, no people at all in this Fred Viner view!