Snap up our new pictorial history of Poole (From Bournemouth Echo)

Snap up our new pictorial history of Poole

10:32am Wednesday 29th July 2009 in

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BE warned… open a page and you are in danger of memories flooding back to you of Poole in days gone by.

The Daily Echo’s new booklet, Snapshots of the Past: A Pictorial History of Poole, is packed with evocative images, from the little train that used to be in Hamworthy Park to the Queen visiting Poole Pottery in 1979 and the power station chimneys coming down in 1993.

Among the early photos to be pondered over is one of Longfleet Road as it used to be and the town’s lifeboat crew outside the lifeboat station in 1904.

There’s a picture of Winston Churchill when granted the Freedom of Poole in 1954 and another of the filming of the Sean Connery film Woman of Straw on Poole Quay in 1963.

The booklet costs just £2.95 and is available now from the Bournemouth Daily Echo office on Richmond Hill and the Poole office in the Dolphin Centre, while stocks last.

Snapshots of the Past: A Pictorial History of Poole is a treat for anyone who knew Poole as she was or wants an insight into the town in decades gone by.