Boscombe

O2 Academy Bournemouth is a live entertainment venue in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. 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. Following a change of ownership in 1898, the new proprietors renamed the venue the Boscombe Grand Theatre. In 1905 it was rebranded Boscombe Hippodrome, which it was known as for over 50 years - the longest it held a name - before another name change came in 1956 when the theatre was closed for a refit and reopened as a dance hall called The Royal Ballrooms. Throughout the 1960s and early 70s, the building was used as a music venue, visited by acts such as Pink Floyd, Status Quo, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Hawkwind, The Faces and David Bowie. Some of these biggest names were during the comparatively short period from 1971 to 1972, when the venue hosted club night Starkers. In December 1972, the venue was turned into a discotheque named Tiffany's, a name it kept for 10 years until 1982 when the building had a multimillion-pound refurbishment and became the Academy Nightclub. The nightclub had one of the first water-cooled lasers and the first Karaoke bar in the UK. Acts included The Sisters of Mercy, Hawkwind, Brand New Heavies, Courtney Pine, JTQ and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Other acts known to have held concerts at the venue include Deep Purple, Canned Heat, T.Rex, Colosseum, Freedom, Joe Jammer and Slade. The rise of rave culture in the 1990s spawned nights such as Fantasia, Wild Turkey and Parhelion. In 1997 the venue was renamed once more as the Opera House nightclub, and in the same year the dance night Slinky was launched. In the early 2000s era of superclubs, Slinky became known as one of the best club nights in the country, enjoying many years of success and attracting some of the biggest global names in electronic music including Dav Gomrass, Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, and Paul Oakenfold. Slinky was synonymous with the Opera House until its final event held on 5 October 2013. The Opera House was closed for a three million-pound refurbishment between November 2006 and June 2007, and officially reopened by Jo Whiley. The Opera House was sold to AMG Group in July 2009 and rebranded as O2 Academy Bournemouth from September of that year. Under the O2 Academy name - and still known affectionately locally as either the Academy or the Opera House - it now hosts a wide range of live music events alongside the traditional dance music events it became popular for.Many well-known acts have played the venue since then, including Steve Harley (as a 3-man electro-acoustic set, not with Cockney Rebel) and 2004 triple Brit award winner The Darkness.

Boscombe railway station was a station in Bournemouth, now in the county of Dorset, England (the station was located in Hampshire for the entirety of its existence). It was opened in 1897 at which time the previous station with the name was renamed Pokesdown. The station served the Royal Victoria Hospital and the centre of Boscombe around the Royal Arcade. It was also the closest station to Dean Court, the home of the football club known during the station's life as Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic FC. The station had a goods yard which received traffic from a large area of Bournemouth, and a large coal depot with sidings. It also had substantial brick buildings which were demolished a few years after closure. Closure took place, just before the electrification of the line through it, on 4 October 1965.

Boscombe Surf Reef was an artificial reef built to enhance surfing conditions at Boscombe in Dorset, England. The project cost £3.2 million and is considered to have failed.[1] The Boscombe Surf Reef was the first surfing reef to be constructed in the Northern Hemisphere. Boscombe, a district of Bournemouth, opted to build a surfing reef to provide a unique focal point for the town's multi-million pound waterfront redevelopment effort, with Bournemouth Borough Council hoping that the reef would "give Boscombe beach its own identity, raise the profile of Boscombe and attract a large number of visitors on an annual basis.” In April 2014, after being closed since March 2011, the council re-branded the reef as a coastal activity park concentrating on diving and wind surfing, as well as kite and wind surfing.

St Clement's Church is one of three Grade I listed churches in Bournemouth; along with St Stephen's and St Peter's. The church stands on St Clements Road in Boscombe and is recorded by Historic England as being in poor condition.

Corpus Christi Church is a Roman Catholic church in Boscombe, on the outskirts of Bournemouth in Dorset. It was founded by Baroness Pauline von Hugel and the Jesuits, and is currently served by the Diocese of Portsmouth. It is situated on St. James' Square, on the corner of Parkwood Road and Christchurch Road. It was founded in 1895 and from its 108 ft tall bell tower, it is possible to see the Isle of Wight.

Dean Court, currently known as the Vitality Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Kings Park, Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England, and the home ground of AFC Bournemouth.

Kings Park is one of the largest parks that is in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset. It is home to Dean Court, where AFC Bournemouth play.

Springbourne is a suburb of Bournemouth in Dorset, England (historically in Hampshire). It occupies the north-east part of the main built-up area, north of Boscombe. Its formal boundaries are Northcote Road to the west, the Wessex Way (A338) to the north, Ashley Road to the east, and the railway line to the south. Its main road, Holdenhurst Road, was formerly the A338, the main road into Bournemouth from the north and north-east. It has now been bypassed, but it is still one of the main shopping streets and bus routes of Bournemouth.

AECC University College is a specialist university in Bournemouth that offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and short courses in a range of health sciences disciplines. These include Chiropractic, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiography, Physiotherapy, Sports Rehabilitation, Sport and Exercise Psychology, Clinical Exercise and Rehabilitation, and Sport and Exercise Science. As a specialist provider, this range of courses sits alongside teaching and clinical facilities based onsite, including a large clinic, MRI, ultrasound, X-ray, and rehabilitation gym. The University College operates a large community-based Chiropractic clinic that provides subsidised treatments, supports student placements, and is a base for research and development activities. AECC University College opened a new Integrated Rehabilitation Centre in October 2022.AECC University College was founded in September 1965 as the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic, renamed in 1969 to the Anglo-European of Chiropractic (AECC).

Bournemouth East Cemetery (formerly known as Boscombe Cemetery) is a municipal cemetery in Boscombe, Bournemouth, England. In 1982, the chapels were grade II listed with Historic England. In the cemetery is a section maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission containing burials from World War I and World War II.

The Langtry Manor (formerly the Red House) is a country house hotel at 26 Derby Road in the East Cliff area of Bournemouth, England. The foundation stone is inscribed "E.L.L. 1877". A residence for 60 years, it was originally known as the "Red House", and after 1937 the "Manor Heath Hotel", before being renamed the Langtry Manor in the late 1970s. Originally built and owned by widowed women's rights campaigner and temperance activist Emily Langton Langton (1847–1897), after her death the house was sold. In 1938 a new set of owners converted it into a hotel, "Manor Heath Hotel", which advertised it as having been built originally for Lillie Langtry by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). However, despite the hotel's claims and local legend, no actual association between Langtry and the house ever existed.

Queen's Park is one of the largest parks that is in Bournemouth, Dorset. It is home to Queen's Park Golf course. Its also name of the suburb the park is in.