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Like many seaside resorts, Withernsea has a wide promenade which reaches north and south from Pier Towers, historic entrance to a rather unlucky 364 metre (nearly 1200 feet) long pier, built in 1877 at a cost of £12,000. The pier was gradually reduced in length by consecutive impacts with local seacraft, colliding with the Saffron in 1880 before being smashed by an unnamed ship in 1888, again by a Grimsby fishing boat and again by the Henry Parr in 1903, leaving the once grand pier with a mere 15 metres (about 50 feet) of sorry wood and steelSteel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. Carbon acts as a binding agent, locking the otherwise easily-moved iron atoms into a rigid lattice. Varying the amount of carbon and its distribution in. Town planners decided to remove the final section during construction of sea defences during this period.

Withernsea, like many British resorts, has suffered from a decline in the number of visiting holidaymakers (known affectionately by the locals as 'diggers') over the last decades of the 20th century. The once sparkling neon lights of the numerous amusement arcade s ('muggies') lining the stretch behind Queen Street (the local high streetHigh Street or the High Street is the generic name (and sometimes the official name) of the business street of towns or cities in the United Kingdom. The equivalent in the United States of America is Main Street. Starting at least 10 centuries ago, the wo) now seem decrepit and are a magnet for the town's undesirables and burgeoning drug problem. Even the once popular Teddy's nightclub is now showing its seedier side, having been renamed G-Spot — with no reference to the naughty postcardFor the computer diagnostic tool, see Postcard (computing). A postal card is a typically rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended to write on and be mailed without an envelope and at a lower rate than a letter. It is distinguished by st humour of old.

The town is also home to a nine-hole golfThis article is about the sport of golf. For other meanings, see Golf (disambiguation). Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. It is defined in the Rules of Golf as playing a ball with course, a large school complex (on a well designed and unusual site incorporating infant, junior and high schools) and an RNLI lifeboatFor the 1944 movie, see Lifeboat (movie). A lifeboat is a boat designed to save lives of people in trouble at sea. There are two quite different usages. One usage is the lifeboats carried by passenger ships, the other the boats designed to be launched as museum. There are several miles of pebble beaches over which large clayFor the town in the United States, see Clay, New York. Clay is a generic term for an aggregate of hydrous silicate particles less than 4 micrometers in diameter. It consists of small crystals of the minerals silica (SiO) and alumina (AlO). These elements, cliffs loom. Coastal erosion is a significant problem for coastal villages in the area, and much of the local council's money has been spent on upgrading the town's sea defences : huge stone boulders now protect the sea wall.