Earlier this month, the Daily Echo shared dozens of pictures of Westbourne from the 70s and 80s. 

Pictures included Kelsall Food store, Jacksons of Piccadilly, the Clarendon Hotel and the old sweet shop. 

We invited readers to tell us their memories of the area from years gone by and we thought we'd share them with you. Here's what you had to say: 

Penny Slade said: "I remember when there was a small Sainsbury's in Poole Road, opposite the Kaplan college as now is. They had cheese and ham counters and they sliced it for you, put it in greaseproof paper, and you paid at the till on the way out. This was the early 60's.

"Also the Westbourne telephone exchange in Alumhurst Road, opposite the Fire station.

"I used to live in the old PNEU girls school on the corner of Alumhurst Road and Western Road. The council bought our house and garden to make the roundabout as is now."

Sue said: "Right next to Mrs Gubbins was a smart tea-room, Flossie’s, and in the basement a teenagers club-style café, Bossies. When I was feeling very sophisticated (age 17) I used to hang out in Bossies. I don’t think they served alcohol – I’m pretty sure that all I drank there was milk ! 

"It was very hip – a la Norwegian Wood – and my memory tells me they played a lot of Cat Stevens, and we had lots of deep philosophical discussions.

"I live in Bristol now, but when I can I visit Costa’s, who now occupy the site, and remember back to those days, when my aspirations were so simple.  Thanks for sharing the pictures of the early ‘70s.  It surprises me just how dowdy and old-fashioned it looks in the photos; in my head it was just a vibrant as Westbourne is now."

Hugh Ashley said: "I was brought up there during the 1950s and in those days the suburb was considered as rather posh.

"I'm taking a memory trip along the shops – starting at the elegant and wonderful Grand Cinema where we as girls and boys used to be minors of the ABC every Saturday morning. Remember, too, the sliding roof frames which would let air in and smoke out during the intervals – not that there was any smoke from the children in the 1950s!

"There was a sweet shop called Gammon's, where Mr and Mrs Gammon used to sell homemade chocolates in small crinkly paper wrappings – but we could never have many because of the restrictions of post-war sweet rationing.

"Then we had Fullinger's, a high-class gentleman's outfitter and almost next door was a double-fronted Currys, in the days when this well-known shop used to sell bicycles as well as radios.

"Sainsbury's had a shop for groceries, meats and vegetables and you bought each item from a different area and took your little price tickets to a box office at the back of the shop. It wasn't uncommon to see the international orchestra conductor Mantovani in there as he lived in nearby Branksome Park.

"The Arcade itself was a cornucopia of fun – Maxted's had an electrical shop, Don Strike had a music store and Nightingale's occupied the far corner on Seamoor Road as a wonderful, much loved sweet shop. But the biggest memories of the arcade were the antique shops which spread their wares across the ground – including hundreds of old books and music sheets. There was no order, but it was great fun.

"In Seamoor Road, opposite the Arcade was a fish and chip shop and the Post Office and then a flower shop run by a lady called Ena. The biggest shop I remember in Seamoor Road was Robert Jackson's of Piccadilly – a wooden-shelved enormous store covered with tins, bags and pots of everything edible. It was expensive but it was good."

You can send us your pictures from days gone by to michaela.horsfield@bournemouthecho.co.uk