Bournemouth Issue Title How's That? (1939)

Part of issue titled HOW'S THAT?
Bournemouth, Dorset.
Travelogue item about South coast holiday resort. Various shots comparing Bournemouth's beach, cliffs and town as they are in 1939 to old photographs of same areas taken in 1870s. Great shots of tourists relaxing on promenade and paddling in sea. Good shots of public gardens, including the Bourne Stream. Item ends with shots of famous Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra performing.
Note: commentary refers to Bournemouth as being in Hampshire. Since 1974, Bournemouth is now in Devon
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[@budte]

Marvellous. Tragic what it has become.

[@BlandMarkComedy]

Class footage.

[@Goldi3loxrox]

i wish Bournemouth was like this today. Must have been wonderful. So clean and new. People well mannered and dressed smartly. Shame they knocked down the Winter Gardens home of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. and the Pier Approach building . We still have the Pavillion Thank goodness.