News From The Pier

Jack Pescod

The Boardwalk open for Half-Term!

We are open for business again. After a winter of renovations, The Boardwalk is finished with a new entrance porch, 30 more seats inside the restaurant and gorgeous new loos. Ladies, you will be excited to learn that you now have three really lovely loos instead of one! We're not going to talk about your facilities, gents, suffice to say you too will be pleased! A smart new disabled loo has been built with better space for baby changing. The restaurant looks completely different, with a new feel and fabulous decor and stunning artwork created for us by East Anglian artist James Dodds. There's more about James below. The menu matches the new feel, why not take a look at this PDF of the menu and visit us when you next come this way, Jamie and his team will be looking forward to welcome you.

Half-Term Activities on the Pier

On Wednesday, 15th February we had a Decopatch Workshop, on Thursday there was face painting and in The Clockhouse on Friday we had a Pirate Story-telling. They were really well attended and great fun was had by all. See here for some pictures!

Our Friends from the Canadian Gymnastics Team

On Friday, 6th January we entertained the Canadian and Australian Gymnastic Teams during their training at the Waveney Gymnastics Club in Lowestoft. Later on in the year we will also meet the British Team as all three teams will be based at Waveney before the Olympics in July. The gymnasts and their coaches really enjoyed the Under-the-Pier-Show, particularly the Crackenstein and the Micro-Break. They felt their work-outs were probably a bit more physical than the Quick-Fit! We look forward to seeing them again in the Summer.

James Dodds' Commission

We have commissioned leading East Anglian artist James Dodds to produce two paintings for the walls in the Boardwalk restaurant – a Punt and a triptych of a Yawl. James is well known for his beautiful lino cuts and colour paintings of boats. James Dodds was born on the East coast fishing town of Brightlingsea and trained as a shipwright in Maldon. He then studied painting at Chelsea and the Royal College of Art, London. The new look Boardwalk will be open in time for February half-term (10 – 20^th Feb).

Seaside Santa and his lovely grotto.

Santa Claus visited us at his special Seaside Grotto on Southwold Pier during December. Lots of children came to see him, wrote letters for the post box and received lovely gifts to take home! Lots of pictures on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/southwoldpier.officialpage

Grandpa came to visit us

We were so excited that Grandpa came to visit the Pier on Saturday, 3rd December at 11.00am. He and Great Aunt Loretta spent two happy hours with us before Grandpa had to go and save the day somewhere! Take a look at the photos on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/southwoldpier.officialpage Campo the Campervan was with us all weekend, families gave a donation to have photo opportunities with all the proceeds going to the Quidenham Children's Hospice - we raised £500.00!

Peter wins the Award for Outstanding Customer Service

In the 2011 Tourism in Suffolk Awards held recently in Ipswich, Peter Websdale our Promenade Café Manager won the award for Outstanding Customer Service. Well done Peter! The Pier itself was also the winner of the Best Large Suffolk Attraction Award. It was a very exciting evening and now the entries are in for the National awards with Visit England. Fingers Crossed!

Gluten-Free Batter Day

Do you miss out on fish and chips when the family indulges? Well let it be a thing of the past. Every first Saturday of the month we are offering Gluten-free battered cod, haddock and plaice & chips and battered sausage & chips in the Promenade Cafe and The Boardwalk Restaurant.