Fun Facts about Bournemouth

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April

• Bournemouth experiences 7.7 hours of summer sunshine a day
• Ice creams sold on a busy weekend - approx 30,000
• Every year an average 750,000 ice creams are bought on the seven miles of Bournemouth seafront
• Deckchairs hired out on a busy weekend - 3,000
• In the summer the beaches are raked by the tractors every morning and manually litter picked twice a day
• Bournemouth Pier has the world’s first and only pier-to-shore zipline
• Bournemouth Mayor Merton Russell-Cotes is said to have received his knighthood for his discretion when King Edward VII regularly visited the Russell-Cotes with his famous mistress, Lily Langtry
• Bournemouth was the first place in the UK to have purpose-built beach huts, built in 1909 and marked with a blue plaque near to the east of Bournemouth Pier
• Bournemouth’s renowned beach has four Blue Flags – Durley Chine has held the accolade for every one of the 30 years since the scheme’s inception
• Fisherman’s Walk Cliff Lift in Southbourne made it into the 2015 Guinness World Records as the world’s shortest funicular railway