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O 2 Academy Bournemouth is a live entertainment venue in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a grade-II listed building. It is a grade-II listed building. The building at 568–578 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, was opened as a theatre on 27 May 1895, named the Grand Pavilion Theatre.
The Bournemouth International Centre (commonly known as the BIC / ˈ b ɪ k /) in Bournemouth, Dorset, was opened in September 1984. It is one of the largest venues for conferences, exhibitions, entertainment and events in southern England.
Virgin Cinemas was founded in 1995 when Richard Branson's Virgin Group acquired MGM Cinemas, [7] [8] Virgin Group bought the cinemas (numbering 116 at the time) for £195m, and subsequently sold 90 of the chain's remaining non-multiplex cinemas to Cinven for £70m to concentrate on multiplexes.
Goldie Hawn gave the cast of Death Becomes Her a night they're sure to remember forever.. On Friday, Feb. 21, the Oscar-winning actress, 79, paid a visit to the hit new Broadway musical, which ...
In 1908, the Bournemouth Tramway accident killed 7 people in the town centre. The COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom has affected business in the town centre. [3] The New Look store in the town centre will close in February 2022 after 21 years. [4] The Wilko will close the same month. [5]
The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of Bournemouth Borough Council and then continued to operate as the local seat of government after the formation of the new unitary authority, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, on 1 April 2019. [11] [12] [13] The new council renamed the building the "BCP Council Civic Centre". [14]
Westbourne has good bus links to both Bournemouth and Poole and the beach is a 15-minute walk away. As of October 2022, Westbourne is served by morebus services m1, m2, 16, 20, Unibus U4, Purbeck Breezer 50 and Beach Breezer 70. [5] Until its closure in 1965, Westbourne had a railway station known as Bournemouth West Station Terminus. The ...
The area around Bournemouth Gardens was granted permission by the owners in 1859 to incorporate a public pleasure ground. [2] Discussions for a fixed entertainment venue took place during the 1880s, and as part of the 1892 Bournemouth Improvement Act, the council were granted £20,000 for constructing a pavilion in the gardens, which could accommodate a municipal orchestra.