Danny42C said
Seems like a sensible use of resources, but carried a risk, as the century-old Victorian iron pillars of these old piers would be so corroded that it was only by the lobsters holding claws that they remained upright !.
Not a pier but a
stone-built jetty. Nearly all traces of RAF Mountbatten have long since disappeared, including Breakwater House where I was located (3 MHU RAuxAF) 1970-73.