Hidden away near Throop is the James Fisher Medical Centre built in 1986. Looks like any other Doctors surgery but look up and you will see what looks like a structure to hold a clock, but instead of clock faces you see stained glass windows.

This is the original housing for the clock which was on the former entrance of Bournemouth Pier (1930).

When World War 2 came to be in 1939, Bournemouth tried to continue as before, including band performances (often now military). Wounded soldiers were also permitted to use deck chairs on the pier free of charge and free access to the pier!

The last band performance on the pier was on 3rd July 1940. The next day all structures on the pier above deck level were removed and salvaged for the war effort. It was then ordered for the military to blow up the last three spans of pier neck to stop the enemy landing there.

The clock tower was then used by the home guard as a watch tower to keep our shores safe.

Damaged by a bomb blast during World War Two, the pier entrance was not demolished until 1980.

The clock tower was moved to be used on the new medical centre across town.