West End Pier, Morecambe

West End Pier was one of two piers in Morecambe, Lancashire, England, built during the late 19th century to an eventual length of 1,800 feet (550 m) long and officially opened on 3 April 1896 by Colonel William Henry Foster MP.

Manghall and Littlewood, who were respected engineers from Manchester, proposed the pier should stretch 900 feet (270 m) from the promenade to the pavilion and a total of 1,800 feet (550 m) to the end of the pier head, to create an overall length of around half a mile.

In 1893, the Board of Trade intervened and stipulated that both applications would be dismissed unless a mutual agreement between the two companies could be made, on the grounds that each planned pier would intersect with the other.

[3] Now named the West End Pier Company, work began in March 1895 with rapid progress reported by September 1895.

[2] The pier was formally opened the following year on 3 April 1896 by Colonel William Henry Foster MP of Hornby Castle.

West End Pier, between 1895 and 1900
1903 storm damage