New Brighton Pier
Concrete ocean pier stretching three hundred metres over the surf, rebuilt on an old pleasure-pier site.
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About this audio guide
This guide to New Brighton Pier in Christchurch is about play: the timber pleasure pier that opened here in the eighteen nineties, and the people who came to fish, promenade and dance on it. It follows Charles Agar of Lyttelton, the owner who filled the shore end with tearooms and sideshows, and the stubborn question of whether seaside fun could ever pay its way. Best heard walking out along the deck toward the surfers.
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