Soon after the pier was closed to the public, some people from the town formed The Friends of the Old Pier Society with the aim of saving the structure.
Mike Davies, from the Friends of the Old Pier Society, said he was concerned about the delay.
We haven't seen anything positive happen since 1996 when I formed the Friends of the Old Pier Society.
The pictures bring to mind the work of Steve Pyke, whose portraits World War I veterans first came to my attention back in the mid-1990s when they were on show at the old headquarters of the Royal Photographic Society in Bath.
The welfare state takes care the non-productive forces of society, the old, the sick and the disable.
The award follows criticism from the new president of the 360-year-old society, Sir Robert May, that the organisation had overlooked the internet inventor.
"When I was a young boy, while my friends were playing with electric trains and teddy bears, I was out collecting decoys, " says Donal O'Brien, 71, former chairman of the National Audubon Society and part of the old guard, with shorebirds and waterfowl in his collection.
The way to shake up Poland's crony capitalism is not by selectively hunting down the cronies, but by making it such an open, liberal and competitive society that the old connections no longer count for much.
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As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the 160m-year-old Darwinopterus, which has been dug up in Liaoning Province, catches the flying reptiles in transition between the primitive, long-tailed forms exemplified by Rhamphorhynchus and the advanced, almost tailless creatures typified by Pteranodon.
But the provision of certain types of cancer investigations and treatments across the UK is variable and some groups of society, like the very old, can miss out.
That night, at its gala dinner, the National Audubon Society presented the 54-year-old with its prestigious Audubon Medal.
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Biggs has worked on ridding the 209-year-old society of its exclusive image, promoting its charity work and has pushed membership numbers over 400, 000 for the first time.
Cold weather "is probably the biggest challenge for people who want to run barefoot, " says Tamara Gerken, the 46-year-old founder of the Atlanta-based Barefoot Runners Society.
"Search has become a fundamental part of the infrastructure of society, " said the 40-year-old, talking to a group of mainly media professionals at a recent event in downtown Manhattan, organised by The Glasshouse, a trans-Atlantic entrepreneurs' support group.
In many respects, 1920s American society represents the good old days of prosperity and fun to the average Joe (or Joanna) in 2012.
"It is reprehensible that women, the old and the weak in our society should be targeted for alleged sorcery or wrongs that they actually have nothing to do with, " O'Neill said.
"The sandeel props up the whole of the North Sea food chain, including the poor old beleaguered cod, " said Dr Euan Dunn, from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
More important, his father had little time to pass on authority to the 29-year-old in a society that esteems age.
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The NSHSS, based in Atlanta, is an 11-year-old membership honor society founded by Claes Nobel, a member of the Swedish Nobel family (Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel prize, is the best known).
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Was Mr Gardner's speech, attacking the distorted values of American society that forced him to abandon his old job selling useful medical equipment, mistakenly left on the cutting room floor?
Gardner's Maggot Moon is the story of a 15-year-old dyslexic boy living in a dystopian 1950s society whose rulers are intent on winning the space race.
Even so eminent a dealer as The Fine Art Society has its former "Old Gold Room" where decades of gilt frames awaited their doom.
The 69-year-old retired small-business owner from Denver, Colorado, heads the Lake Chapala Society, an expatriate community center in the Mexican state of Jalisco with more than 3, 000 members.
After the war, the group transformed itself into a lay religious organisation, adopting the name Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), and embracing the faith of the 700-year-old Nichiren Shoshu sect.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said there were two deaths in the unrest: A 24-year-old Palestinian security officer in Ramallah and a Palestinian schoolgirl on her way to class in Jenin.
In the old, narrow view of capitalism, business contributes to society by making a profit, which supports employment, wages, purchases, investments, and taxes.
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If you talk to women in America, they will tell you that there are still men who have a lot of old-fashioned ideas about the role of women in society.
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Nor, can they be trusted to coordinate their actions through the centuries old institution of voluntary exchange in free markets or through the voluntary organizations that are the bedrock of a civil society.
Perhaps, just like the Provisionals' old twin track armalite and ballot box strategy, society has to keep its options open.
And there is also the slippery-slope argument: once assisted suicide is permitted for the terminally ill, vulnerable members of society, such as old people regarded as a nuisance by their families, may all too easily be pushed down it.
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