How much longer are we to put up with the petty arguing about Brighton's long-suffering West Pier?

Putting some sort of building at the front of the pier is ridiculous.

That is not how it was so it's crazy to suggest adding such a thing to it.

It has to look as near as possible to how we all remember it in the Thirties and Forties and certainly not like the dreadful Palace Pier, with its fairgrounds and noisy so-called music played loud enough to deafen the over-70s.

Before the war, on the right at the entrance to the West Pier, opposite the slope, were small petrol-driven racing cars, then there were amusements of all kinds, artists, shops, postcards, food and drinks, a dance hall, the beautiful theatre, fishing downstairs at the end, speedboat rides, and visiting steamers and pleasure boats.

There was no screaming music. Would it not be nice to have it as it was?

There is nowhere for the older people to go nowadays where they can sit in peace and read a book or simply take the sun. All the shops on land are just as bad.

-Gerald E Spicer, North Road, Upper Portslade