A NEW BOOK BY PIERS AUTHOR CHRIS FOOTE WOOD My Great British Pier Trip 66 Seaside Piers in 21 days Chief PierCrawler Chris Foote Wood has written a book about his experiences visiting every seaside pier in the country. In 2007, author & broadcaster Chris (Victoria Wood s brother) fulfilled a lifetime ambition by walking on all the remaining seaside pleasure piers in England, Wales & the Isle of Man. This was to research his book Walking over the Waves , published earlier this year by maritime specialists Whittles Publishing. Walking over the Waves Quintessential British Seaside Piers gives a detailed account of every pier, its history and current condition, as well as many tales of fires, storms and shipwrecks, who built our piers and who has owned them, and the many stars who have performed on them. The book includes 300 old & new photographs. On his trip around the coasts of Britain, Chris kept an amusing and entertaining blog which he has now produced in book form, along with a host of colour photographs he took along the way. As well as the UK s 56 recognised seaside piers, Chris includes several other interesting seaside piers, plus (of course) Wigan Pier (which does exist!). My Great British Pier Trip 66 Seaside Piers in 21 days , softback, 80 pages 17cm x 17cm, high quality paper throughout, 120+ photographs (mainly colour), published by Northern Writers at £10.00. ISBN 978-0-9553869-4-7
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Chris wrote his first weekly newspaper column at the age of sixteen, reporting athletics for the Bury Times. He wrote for his college newspaper Courier. He edited and promoted the student arts magazine Northerner , making it profitable for the first (and perhaps the only) time. As well as publishing and editing his own local newspapers in the north east, Chris has written and published books of local interest. Nellie s Book , published by Sutton Publishing in February 2006, was his first venture onto the national scene. He now specialises in biography and is an accomplished ghost writer. He also runs his own small publishing company Northern Writers www.writersinc.biz
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This is the author's trip around Britain visiting 66 of her piers. There is a companion book to this ( Walking over the Waves) which I feel I need to view as well. The Author has had some fun doing this and it shows in the text. The pictures are very good but the book would be enhanced with aerial more photos. A quaint little book.
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Contains usefull information about all our seaside piers. Best to get out and visit them and this book will tell you what to expect and where they all are as well as some handy statistics
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