The Central Pier was built shortly after the North Pier, and quickly gained a reputation as the ‘people’s pier’, on account of the regular dances held in the pavilion, considered by the upper class of the day to be a working-class activity. The pier has been renovated over the last two decades, most noticeably with the construction of a ferris wheel. The pier now has a funfair, a theatre, a bar, and has a feel to it that epitomises the Great British seaside.