Looking back at Boscombe High Street back in the early 1970s years before the Sovereign Centre was built and Christchurch Road from Heathcote Road to Palmerston Road was pedestrianised in 1990.

On the corner of Heathcote Road and Christchurch Road you can see Lawson the men’s store along with K Webster the green grocers with old favourite Curry’s, Nelson Wingate and Co op to name a few.