Excerpt from The Brighton Chain Pier: In Memoriam; Its History From to 1896, With a Biographical Notice of Sir Samuel Brown, Its Designer and Constructor
That unique and beautiful structure - the first of its kind erected - more familiarly known as the Brighton Chain Pier, which, for nearly three-quarters of a century had been a favourite subject with artists and a theme for well-deserved admiration both by residents and visitors, in addition to its being a charming resort either for health or pleasure, Has Passed Away! For some years past, decay, insufficient reparation, and the unceasing wear and tear of wind and wave, had sadly told upon its stability and marred the symmetry of its graceful proportions; but more recently a storm, on October 6th, 1896, accentuated the destructive effects of other disintegrating agencies, rendering the Pier so insecure and dangerous that its removal had become a matter of necessity, in order to avert the possibility of a still greater calamity. But what was intended in the way of removal by human agency has been done far more swiftly and effectually by the violent and disastrous storm, which took place on the night of Friday, December 4th. The last throes of the Chain Pier were of the briefest.
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