WHAT a lovely surprise to find the “Remember When” supplement in Thursday’s Daily Echo. Especially the main image of Bournemouth Square (page 6). Nice to see the horse and carriages (taxi service) waiting custom.
I wonder what shop had its sun awning down?
The two churches can be seen, of course: on the left, Richmond Hill Congregational Church, built 1891. On the right, St Andrew’s in Exeter Road, erected in 1887.
The spire was damaged during bombing in WW2 and dismantled in 1947 having become unsafe.
With regard to the fountains, the one on the right of the picture was powered by a water tower, and a water-wheel in 1904 and, presumably, powered the left one as well.
However, the Daily Echo in 1940 reported “The water-wheel, enclosed in shrubberies is to be sold for scrap metal, to be used for ward purposes”.
A water tower still exists in the Upper Gardens.
On page 18 of the supplement, top left, the caption on the postcard, under the vehicle, says Westbourne, not Wareham as stated in the the Daily Echo’s caption.
Someone obviously became confused.
I submitted the picture and the lady in the light-coloured coat above the rear wheel was my wife’s aunt, Miss Agnes Allen.
P WAREHAM, Haymoor Road, Poole
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