ABSTRACT
Ryde Pier is England’s oldest seaside pier. Measuring 681m, it still features a timber-planked promenade and has carried pedestrians and vehicles since it was built in 1814.A second tramway pier opened five years later, while in 1880 a third pier was opened alongside the first two, providing a direct steam railway link to the pier-head. In 1895 a concert pavilion was constructed at the pier-head and over the next sixteen years the original wooden piles were replaced in cast iron. The pier head was remodelled in the 1930s using concrete.
