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BH2 6HH. Tel: 01202 411277. E-mail: michaela.horsfield@bournemouthecho.co.uk

Take a tour through Boscombe's rich history

A DIFFERENT ERA: An old coloured postcard showing Christchurch Road in Boscombe, postmarked 1907

11:33am Tuesday 7th February 2012

DID you know Boscombe once had three stately homes or that in the 1920s a curse was cast on a theatre which dared to open on Sundays?

RSS Discovery: The Blandford crewman who never returned

The crew of RSS Discovery with AB George Vince, from Blandford, on top far left, standing on the mizzen boom. Copyright Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

10:29am Tuesday 31st January 2012

Nearly 110 years ago, Captain Scott, on board the Discovery, set forth to explore the wild Antarctic. One crewman, Able Seaman George Vince from Blandford, never came home…

How Dorset's helped shape the pillar box

A 1978 Post Office postcard celebrating the pillar box at Holwell, featured local postman, Stephen Whittle, 24 dressed up in an 1850s’ postman’s uniform. The box was made between 1853 and 1856.

10:46am Tuesday 24th January 2012

DEEP in rural Dorset stands a postbox that is the oldest in regular use in England.

The Giles Brothers: ‘We were not trendsetters’

l Trendsetters Ltd, formed in early 1964 with the Giles Brothers, Allan Azern, Mike Blakesley and Bruce Turner

11:28am Tuesday 17th January 2012

Nick Churchill looks at the musical careers of two Bournemouth brothers who played with King Crimson as well as other key bands

The changing views of Dorset

Bournemouth Square in 1900

9:00am Tuesday 10th January 2012

Dorset Through Time by Steve Wallis is a new title that examines how the county has evolved over the last hundred years.

Remembering shocking murder 90 years on

Victim Irene May Wilkins

12:22pm Tuesday 3rd January 2012

Around the anniversary of one of Bournemouth’s most notorious crimes, John Creswell looks back at the Telegram Murder Case

Parade celebrated the true spirit of Christmas

Bournemouth Christmas Parade reindeer float 1977

10:32am Tuesday 20th December 2011

IN the 1970s the magic of Christmas returned for lots of children in Bournemouth when Mike and Edna Phillips-Pitman started a Christmas Parade that was so popular, it became a major annual event.

Growing up in Post-war Parkstone

Constitution Hill on a sunny day probably in the 1950s. Picture from Up on Hill.

10:20am Tuesday 13th December 2011

THEY were the days when crowds flocked to see the flicks at the Regal and the Retreat pub stood proudly where Waitrose is found today.

Naval hero is remembered at Dorset church

RE-DISCOVERED: Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Nugent (from 1803 Naval Chronicle)

9:45am Tuesday 6th December 2011

On the anniversary of his most famous victory at Trafalgar this year one of Admiral Lord Nelson’s illustrious contemporaries was remembered in the Dorset country churchyard where his remains lay in obscurity for more than 150 years before being rediscovered by accident.

Dark corners of Peter Mews’ life

Portrait identified as Sir Peter Mews, of Hinton Admiral House, but is more likely of his uncle Bishop Peter Mews, who had a patch on his face covering a bullet wound.

9:59am Tuesday 22nd November 2011

SKELETONS can be found in cupboards when family history is researched.

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