North Pier

North Pier is a pier built between 1862 and 1863 by Eugenius Birch, with construction by R. Laidlaw and Son of Glasgow. It features cast iron screw piles and columns that support iron girders and a wooden deck, which measures 1,405 feet long, along with a jetty that extends 474 feet, added in 1867. The pierhead was enlarged with wings in 1874 for an Indian Pavilion that was later destroyed by fire. Currently, there is a modern theatre on the north side and curved glass and iron shelters on the south side. The promenade deck is lined on both sides with wooden benches that have ornamental open-work backs made of cast iron. These backs feature a continuous band of stars in circles, topped with semicircular fan-shaped backs arranged in groups of three, with the center back displaying a grotesque. The groups are separated by voluted armrests. There are also two pairs of original kiosk-bays on the deck, which have kiosks built around 1900. Each kiosk is an elongated hexagon made of wood and glass, topped with a two-tier swept-out lead roof that supports an octagonal lantern of blue glass and a minaret roof with a finial.