Bournemouth Dorset Photographs

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Title: Retail Therapy Place: Bournemouth Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: Bournemouth is a great place for a spot of retail therapy. There are many very well known shops and lots of unusual haunts to cater for the most ardent shopper and then there are plenty of places to s...... Photograph Added: 11th March 2008

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Title: View from the Sand Place: Bournemouth Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: On this particular day when we visited Bournemouth we parked at Boscombe and took the land train. This short journey is delightful and saves the hassle of driving and parking in Bournemouth. There is ...... Photograph Added: 11th March 2008

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Title: Oceanarium at Bournemouth Place: Bournemouth Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: Bournemouth's Oceanarium photographed from the beach. This attraction is fully interactive with touch screen games plus feeding demonstrations and talks. There are plasma screen documentaries and a ...... Photograph Added: 26th February 2008

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Title: St Peters Church Place: Bournemouth Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: St. Peter's Church at Bournemouth stands in the heart of this busy seaside resort a town which welcomes thousands of visitors each year. The church was completed over one hundred years ago and it has...... Photograph Added: 15th February 2008

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Title: Rain Clouds over Bournemouth Place: Bournemouth Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: Rain was fast approaching when this photograph was taken and no one seemed interested in sitting outside. In better weather conditions this area is enjoyed by the many shoppers and tourists who flock ...... Photograph Added: 15th February 2008

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About Bournemouth Dorset.

Bournemouth today is a very modern lively seaside resort and busy shopping centre with much to offer both the tourist and shopper. It was a different story 200 years ago when this area was known as Bourne and was little more that a heathy wasteland used mainly by smugglers and fishermen.
During the Napoleonic Wars Captain Lewis Tregonwell of the Dorset Yeomanry was put in charge of the defence of the area and he and his wife came to love Bourne and the climate. He built a house there in 1812, he soon realised the potential of the place and built houses for holiday lets he also planted pine trees in the valleys.
It was not until 1849 that a bridge was built to carry the Christchurch Poole road. The first shop was opened on Commercial Road in around 1850 when the population numbered nearly 700. Bournemouth had a reputation for its fresh pine scented air which was thought to be a cure for tuberculosis. The writer Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "Kidnapped" while taking "the air" to give him some relief from his condition.
Bournemouth might not have the long history associated with its near neighbours of Poole and Weymouth but today it is one of the most popular tourist destinations on the South coast. People are attracted to the mild climate, still scented by the pine trees planted so many years ago, the wonderful miles of sandy beaches, the splendid shopping centre and the many attractions that Bournemouth has to offer.
Bournemouth's is justifiably renowned for its beautiful Pleasure Gardens that have won many national awards, the gardens include flower borders with displays of colourful bedding plants, large pines trees, palms, ornamental shrubs, ponds, aviaries, squirrels, a bandstand with regular concerts etc. One of the latest crowd pullers in the lower gardens is the Bournemouth Eye, a hot air balloon that takes visitors up to 500 ft which gives wonderful views over the town, the English Channel and the surrounding countryside. The basket is large enough to take 25 to 30 passengers and, if you are looking for a romantic treat, the balloon is illuminated in the evening.
Near the seafront is the Oceanarium which is advertised as "a fully interactive experience with touch screen games, feeding demonstrations and talks, plasma screen documentaries, walk-through underwater tunnel and exhibits to help discover more about the fascinating underwater world."
The first pier in Bournemouth was a short wooden jetty built in 1856. In 1861 this was replaced by a much longer wooden pier that was designed by George Rennie, Following an attack by the Teredo worm the wooden piles were changed to cast iron replacements in 1866. The Rennie pier was finally demolished in 1877 and replaced by a new pier, designed by Eugenius Birch at a cost of 21,600 pounds. The pier as it appears today has been changed several times since Birch with a two storey octagonal leisure complex and a reconstructed pier neck in concrete that gives it the bridge-like appearance. The very popular Pier Theatre was opened on 3rd June 1960 with the show "Carry on Laughing" starring Ted Rogers and every year famous faces appear in a variety of different shows and pantomimes.
Bournemouth has so many attractions that it is the ideal place to holiday any time of the year.