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The pier was completed in 1895 with a small wooden concert part theatre added at the sea end in 1907. The current Art Deco Pavilion was built in 1930.

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This part of the Bristol Channel is still a estuary of the River Severn with the Channel starting off to the right in the picture.

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The estuary has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world at about 50 feet (15mtrs)

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. A storm is coming.

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Flat Holm on the left has a claim to fame.

"On 13 May 1897, a 22-year-old Italian inventor named Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by a Cardiff Post Office engineer named George Kemp, transmitted the first wireless signals over open sea from Flat Holm to Lavernock Point near Penarth, Wales. Having failed to interest the Italian government in his project, Marconi had brought his telegraphy system to Britain. Here he met Welshman William Preece who was at that time Chief Engineer of the General Post Office and a major figure in the field. Marconi and Preece erected a 34 m (112 ft) high transmitting mast on Flat Holm as well as a 30 m (98 ft) receiving mast at Lavernock Point. The first trials on 11 May and 12 failed. On 13 May, the mast at Lavernock was raised to 50 m (160 ft) and the signals were received clearly. The message sent by Morse Code was "Are you ready"; the original paper Morse slip, signed by both Marconi and Kemp, is now in the National Museum of Wales." (Wikipedia)

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