Original Pier:
- Length, 3600ft.;
- Length across head, 100ft. :
- Breadth of head, 30ft.;
- Breadth of body. 16ft. ;
- Distance from end of head to line of low-water springs, 500ft.:
- Total cost, £9,000;
- Price per foot super, 3s. 7d;
- Price per foot forward, £2 10s.
- This pier had only 7in. columns, was constructed entirely on dry ground, and only one small entrance house 9ft. square, and two flights of steps at pier head.
- Contractors price for cast iron fixed complete was £8; wrought iron, £14; and the contractor's loss was £2000.
Pier present in 1875:
Outer portion of structure.
- Length, 805ft.;
- Greatest breadth of head 190ft.;
- Lesser breadth of head, 40ft.;
- Total length to head, 135ft.;
- Length of body, 640ft.;
- Breadth of body, 29ft.;
- Length across enlargement, 100ft.;
- Breadth across enlargement, 30ft.;
- Greatest depth of water at low spring tides, 13ft.;
- Total cost, £16,OOO;
- Price per foot super, 11s. l 1/2d;
- Price per foot forward, £19 17s. 6 1/2d·
- The body of this pier is supported upon Dixon's cast iron driven piles;
- The head is of timber construction piles, 2in. by 12in.
- The enlargement shown at the commencement of this pier formed the head of the original pier.
- The Old body being enlarged to 29ft. in breadth.
- Total cost of pier, not including tramway, £34,642;
- Price per foot super, 5s. 8 3/4d.;
- Price per foot forward, £7 18s. 4 3/4d. [1]
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