Bournemouth: 1810-1910, the history of a modern health and pleasure resort . creasingpopulation of Bournemouth. As we have already chronicled, a Promenade Pier Companywas promoted, and a Provisional Order actually obtained in1875. But the Company and the Commissioners were unableto come to terms with regard to the old structure, the powersof the former lapsed, and the Commissioners came to theconclusion that the interest of the community which theyrepresented would be best served by prompt and energeticaction on their part. Accordingly, in 1878, they obtainednew Parliamentary powers, and the s
Bournemouth: 1810-1910, the history of a modern health and pleasure resort . creasingpopulation of Bournemouth. As we have already chronicled, a Promenade Pier Companywas promoted, and a Provisional Order actually obtained in1875. But the Company and the Commissioners were unableto come to terms with regard to the old structure, the powersof the former lapsed, and the Commissioners came to theconclusion that the interest of the community which theyrepresented would be best served by prompt and energeticaction on their part. Accordingly, in 1878, they obtainednew Parliamentary powers, and the same year the presentPier was commenced. The engineer was the late Mr. , who submitted three sets of plans, the first for a pier(60 feet in width) costing £.52,382 ; the second for one (45feet in width) costing £38,075 ; and the third for one esti-mated at £27,500, The Board decided to accept SchemeNo. 2, with modifications ; they elected, for instance, toomit the proposed pavilion, but they agreed to obtainParliamentary powers to add such a structure if required. BOURNEMOUTH: 1810-1910. 161 at a later date. They obtained authority to spend a sumnot exceeding £40,000, though their present proposal wasfor an outlay of about £20,000. The Companys schemehad been for the erection of a Pier at a cost not exceeding£17,000, and there were some leading townsmen who regardedthe Commissioners proposals as grossly extravagant andlikely to be burdensome to the ratepayers. At the LocalGovernment Board Inquiry one gentleman gravely declaredthat an extra rate of Is. in the £ would be necessary topay the cost, and another made himself responsible for astatement that almost all the best plots of land were nowbuilt upon at Bournemouth ! Even in 1879, we find oneof the old Commissioners in an election address declaringthat the construction of this Pier would have been betterleft to the venturesome enterprise of a private that case those residents who might use the Pier wou
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