Bournemouth Pier
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The beautiful art deco pier was demolished and replaced with this modern edifice. It is nice that Bournemouth has a pier as most of the seaside town's piers have been burnt down and not been replaced. The sun was very bright this day and was fairly low in the sky as as usual I was late taking this photograph.
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