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Bournemouth Pier through the ages

By owentomalley
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    Piers at Bournemouth

  • Small Wooden Jetty

    The first pier at Bournemouth was a small wooden jetty just above the water.

  • 1000ft wooden pier

    Designed by George Rennie and costing £3418 a new pier was built

  • Piles replaced with cast iron

  • 838ft iron pier

    Eugenius Birch designed the 838 foot iron pier at a cost of £21,600.

  • Covered shelters and band stand added

  • breached as an anti-invasion measure

  • Re-opened after WWII

  • Concrete substructure built to carry new theatre

  • Rebuilt due to corrosion damage £1.7million

    New concrete shoreward neck built and buildings added to the pier

  • £13million high tech pier plans rejected by Millenium Commision

  • Openwide ltd take over operation of the pier from the Council

  • Top Secret £1.1million deal reported between Council and Openwide ltd for outdoor attraction

  • The Pier Theatre last season, planned outdoor activity centre put back to 2014