Catch the Deal Pier Light Show.

• Guest 640

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  14 December 2009     17:3934889
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  STREETLIGHT STORM COMES TO DEAL PIER
  
  An illuminating artwork that will see lights along Deal Pier flicker in time with lightning strikes as they happen live all over the world, is launching on Monday (21 December).
  
  The artwork, called Streetlight Storm, is by exciting contemporary artist Katie Paterson. Lightning signals are received by antenna on the pier from as far away as the North Pole and North Africa, and translated into light. As the pattern of the lightning strikes changes, so the pier lights change to show the power and drama of the storms.
  
  The artwork will be switched on at 4.30pm on Deal Pier on 21 December. It will run until 30 January 2010, during the hours of darkness and the pier's opening hours, with lights on from around 5pm-10pm Sunday to Thursday, and all night Friday and Saturday.
  
  The artwork is supported by Vauxhall Motors and the Albion Gallery, in partnership with Turner Contemporary and Whitstable Biennale. It has been set up on Deal Pier with support from Dover District Council.
  
  
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  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 December 2009     18:0934890
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  Again Deal get the headlines and headlights over Dover but well done to them we will be going over to see them.
• Sue Nicholas

  • Location: river
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 December 2009     18:3834893
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  Im sure the Prince of Wales pier in Dover comes under the DHB ,hence the frightful cafe at the end .DealPier belongs to DDC .Good for DDC to get publicity >I have an invite for the pre reception on Friday but dont fancy the bus trip at that time of night .
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  14 December 2009     19:1534899
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  you must go susan, not many dover residents left representing us on the council.
  
  speak to nigel, he would be delighted to give you a lift there and back.
• Guest 673

  • Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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  18 December 2009     21:0035159
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  The Prince of Wales pier is indeed DHB as one would expect. We have discussed the cafe on the end on previous occasions on the forum. There used to be a rather spectacular one, built by DHB, which surrounded the lighthouse on the end of the pier. Unfortunately, a ferry destroyed this when attempting to round the end of the pier during exceptionally bad weather. Sadly, the replacement is much more mundane and does not give the same views as the old one.
  
  The photo below was taken the next day. I copied it from somewhere, probably from here the last time the subject was raised, so if anybody recognises it please let me know so I can attribute it or stop using it!