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Boscombe voted best amongst its piers
9:30am Thursday 25th March 2010 in
Boscombe’S newly restored pier has been voted Pier of the Year 2010.
The structure, described as “one of the coolest piers in the country” by designer Wayne Hemingway, beat off competition from 10 others shortlisted in the annual poll by the National Piers Society.
The award is designed to acknowledge and reward commitment to restoring the UK’s much-loved seaside icons.
Boscombe Pier, now dubbed a “stylish post-modern structure”, is praised for its grade II listed entrance building with its distinctive flying wing design, and central windbreak with panels telling its story down the years.
• The pier was built in 1888
•It was partly demolished during the Second World War for security reasons and lay in a sorry state until the 1950s, when it was revamped
•It’s distinctive, modern entrance building was listed in 2004
The pier underwent refurbishment in 2008, which included replacement of the structurally unsound end section with a new viewing platform, new wooden decking, handrails, lighting and windbreak. More recently public benches have been added.
Only four years earlier, the same entrance building was widely dubbed an eyesore, and plans to list it were called “crazy” by the council’s then deputy leader, Cllr Richard Smith. In 2000, many councillors even called for the pier to be demolished.
Boscombe Pier is one of the most photographed local landmarks in our Flickr group
Cllr Anne Filer, cabinet member for leisure and tourism, said she was delighted Boscombe had won the prestigious award as the town celebrates its bicentenary.
Gavin Henderson of the National Piers Society said Boscombe Pier had played “second fiddle” to its sister pier at Bournemouth for far too long.
John Amos, chairman of the Friends of Boscombe Pier group Inspieration, said: “Boscombe Pier offers an attractive and distinctive alternative to other piers with arcades, bars and theatres.
“Winning the Pier of the Year award is a great honour and everyone involved in the pier’s restoration, reopening and the events held on it since can feel very proud.”
Comments(31)
Huey
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10:00am Thu 25 Mar 10
apritchard wrote:Yes, the reef is getting an award for it's minimalist waves.
I did not think it was finished yet. It is just an empty walkway. This is taking minimalism to extremes, surely. Can we expect the reef to get an award , next?
The surf pods are up for an award too - minimalist sales.
mookie4a4
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11:50am Thu 25 Mar 10
It's just a fishing platform.
Schooners
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12:11pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Lyme Regis has the Cobb and we have The Boscvegas Pier and it is quite special, only yesterday I saw someone scatter some ashes off the end of it.
Pride, dignity, honour and a special place in history that's our pier, just a shame that BCC failed on every count to emulate these points.
I see Mr Spanky Mc Personal bits has got his head down below the parapet for a bit at the moment? Could that be someone has filed an official complaint with the parliamentary standards officer?
Leave our pier alone, it rocks, and pick on the g-reef instead.
ben111
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12:19pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Mediclogan5
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12:30pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Trifecta
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12:39pm Thu 25 Mar 10
boardstiff
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12:42pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Trifecta wrote:That'll be"
I read a lovely quote on a website yesterday (not going to share it but certain people will recognise it) that said......."With the advent of the Boscombe Overstrand, masterminded by Wayne Hemingway" He is Mr Boscombe! Maybe he is the man behind the cash given to the Cherries ?
http://www.chasingmy
invoice.co.uk/bomo/
then!
Ain't Google a wonderful thing?
Peggy Babcock
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1:36pm Thu 25 Mar 10
apritchard
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2:27pm Thu 25 Mar 10
The pier and the reef are not very Long,
but Bournemouth ratepayers are certainly going to be Poor (especially after the purchase of the IMAX)
MoordownMarc
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3:29pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Secondly some sources say that without a feature at the end this is no longer a Pier but fits the description of a Jetty. Boscombe Jetty - does not sound quite the same but may be correct now!
BottomE
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3:39pm Thu 25 Mar 10
boardstiff
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4:19pm Thu 25 Mar 10
MoordownMarc wrote:Marc,
First point, the picture shows surfers using the side of the 'Pier' without the surf reef - as appears to be the norm.
Secondly some sources say that without a feature at the end this is no longer a Pier but fits the description of a Jetty. Boscombe Jetty - does not sound quite the same but may be correct now!
It's not the picture - nor the surfers - that won the award, but the pier.
As far as "jetty" is concerned, definitions range from a structure designed to influence currents (bit like a reef) to one alongside which ships lie (and I haven't seen one alongside Boscombe Pier for many a year).
It's a pier, Jim (Marc), but not perhaps as we know it...
quay worker
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4:44pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Bormuf Boy
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4:52pm Thu 25 Mar 10
I LOVE BOSCOMBE. I LOVE BOSCOMBE CHINE. I LOVE SITTING UP SEA RD OVERLOOKING THE PIER APPROACH. I LOVE BOSCOMBE ARCHITECTURE. I LOVE BOSCOMBE'S HISTORY. I LOVE ALL THE WORK THATS BEEN DONE TO IMPROVE BOSCOMBE. Don't tell anyone but i do think there is work to do around the precinct area, but that is ongoing and needs peoples support not this continual tsunami of negativity. You naughty, naughty people.
jobsworthwatch
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5:02pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Bob49
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6:01pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Sounds like a well worn, lady of the night from yesteryear
georgina dean
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6:51pm Thu 25 Mar 10
the two go together i think........
uninteresting.....no
thing to see.......
in fact 'THE KINGS NEW CLOTHES' SYNDROME............
.
Trifecta
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7:37pm Thu 25 Mar 10
open mind
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10:20pm Thu 25 Mar 10
Syd Poumen
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2:09am Fri 26 Mar 10
Trifecta wrote:Can I tell you something very much in confidence? Well it is quite likely that I will become Peer of the Year.
I read a lovely quote on a website yesterday (not going to share it but certain people will recognise it) that said......."With the advent of the Boscombe Overstrand, masterminded by Wayne Hemingway" He is Mr Boscombe! Maybe he is the man behind the cash given to the Cherries ?
You remain My Obedient Servant
Sir John Butterfill
Happy Larry
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2:40am Fri 26 Mar 10
invoice.co.uk/bomo/
This author must be a right plonker from the big smoke
sussexcherry
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10:16am Fri 26 Mar 10
jinglebell
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10:27am Fri 26 Mar 10
Bormuf Boy wrote:What exactly do you mean by "...needs peoples support.."? Whether we like it, love it, hate it, or are disinterested - the failing Conservative Council will do whatever they wish. They have no interest in what people need, or would like whatsoever. The latest joke buzzing round Boscombe today is that yesterday at a public meeting in the town hall, which was - in part - to discuss the Council working with local people, the public were told to leave! Apparently, this was the dictact of the leader, Cllr. McLoughlin and he watched over and ensured the public were ejectecd! This is more than bizarre - it is a complete farce!
Here we go again. Ignore them Boscombe, i love you and i think you and your pier look great. All the negativity is getting boring. I LOVE BOSCOMBE. I LOVE BOSCOMBE CHINE. I LOVE SITTING UP SEA RD OVERLOOKING THE PIER APPROACH. I LOVE BOSCOMBE ARCHITECTURE. I LOVE BOSCOMBE'S HISTORY. I LOVE ALL THE WORK THATS BEEN DONE TO IMPROVE BOSCOMBE. Don't tell anyone but i do think there is work to do around the precinct area, but that is ongoing and needs peoples support not this continual tsunami of negativity. You naughty, naughty people.
Xchurch-man
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11:25am Fri 26 Mar 10
A walkway to nowhere wins the best pier award! Excuse me if I am wrong but is it not customary for piers to have some form of tourist attraction at the end of the "walkway"?
Some have theatres (as does Bournemouth pier), others have amusement parks and roller coasters, Boscombe even used to have an amusement arcade, but the Council demolished it! Perhaps it was "spoiling the view".
Boscombe pier looks like an unfinished construction project a bit like a Benidorm hotel, it is no more than a joke, but there again it is in Boscombe!
Benniestewart
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12:56pm Sat 27 Mar 10
Sadly Boscombe will never be ''regenerated'' and a tremendous amount of public money will inevitably be lost until Bournemouth Borough Council behave in a realistic, responsible way and stop Halfway houses, Treatment Centres
and the continued overdevlopment
of the area generally.
In years to come the Boscombe Beach Development just down the hill from many of the centres will become a magnet for the unemployed and needy to hang out
and quite rightly so after all it is a public place
Come on Bournemouth Borough Council look at the Big Picture and try to incorporate into your Master Vision a Boscombe without the continued overdevelopment and
ghetto culture of many of its streets
BournemouthMum
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1:27pm Sat 27 Mar 10
rotcoddam
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12:35pm Mon 29 Mar 10
Lets think about this we had a long pier with a perfectly sound building on the end of it. Well sound enough for Bournemouth council to feel it safe enough to use for storage. The pier was deemed unsafe to walk on but the council obviously has little regard for the health and safety of ite workforce that it let them drive vans on it.
This pier was left to rot for over thirty years, then they demolish the building cut off the end put up a bit of new railing and give the entrance a coat of cheap whitewash ( presumably left over from their various council investigations)and guess what it wins an award.
What next bournemouth council leader gets award for walking and chewing gum at the same time.
Wayne (who the hell is he) Hemingway says its good. That will be the nonentity, that nobody had previously heard of before the council engaged him to design (take a box shaped room, already exisiting, add a fixed bit of worktop with a cupboard under chuck in a couple of deckchairs and a kettle, blow up some dodgy murals, badly,and hang some old charity shop throw out curtains.)Then wonder why nobody wants to pay the price of a two bedroomed house for one.
poolebabe
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8:26pm Tue 30 Mar 10
rotcoddam
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9:57pm Tue 30 Mar 10
reefskeptic
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8:56am Wed 7 Apr 10
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apritchard says...
9:56am Thu 25 Mar 10
Can we expect the reef to get an award , next?