It's not the first time crews have given attention to the IB Pier's decking: Ten years ago, about 1,500 planks were replaced.

Engineers from the Canal and River Trust have brought in a spider crane to allow huge greenheart oak planks to be lowered on ropes and fixed in place. The pier is exposed to huge tidal pressures ...

pier with his partner and daughter on Friday at about 19:30 BST, when he noticed smoke and small flames on the wooden planks. The weather had turned and "we were literally the last people there ...