| Collection type | Place |
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| Category | Town |
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Bournemouth
Description
Popular resort since ca. 1810, when town grew around residence of Dorset squire, Lewis Tregonwell; expanded with railways 1870; called "Sandbourne" in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles; includes large residential areas & some light industry.
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People
- Binmore, Arthur
- Clist, Peter
- Crabbe, Colin Bernard
- Dibden, Lawrence Frank
- Fenton, Ronald Franklin
- Gray, Neal Morton
- Heather, Charles Alfred
- Kent, Hugh Albert Graham
- McMahon, John Francis
- Mills, George Arthur
- Oxford, Arthur Robert French
- Parsons, Sydney Frederick
- Pope, Vivian Lewis
- Punch, William Joseph
- Scarlett, Leopold Florence
- Watt, Walter Oswald