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Lansdowne 1907

A view showing Christchurch Road and Holdenhurst Road in the Lansdowne area of Bournemouth. This is a colourised photo dated 1907. Visible on the left is Lansdowne Crescent.

Lansdowne 1907

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TomF - great building

|Fri-08-2007

what ever happened to that building?

SteveM - SteveM

|Thu-04-2009

Thats the old hotel Metropole, it was destroyed by a german bomb in the 2nd
world war.

grant

|Thu-11-2009

We are in Bath Rd looking out onto The Lansdowne.Holdenhurs t Rd is opposite and
Christchurch Rd is right.The Lansdowne has six roads running from it.The main
building opposite was the Metropole Hotel which was destroyed by German bombs
dropped during an air raid in 1943 killing a large number of people mainly
Canadian soldiers.This was the same air raid that destroyed Beales department
store amongst others.
The ruins of the Metropole Hotel remained on the site
until 1957 and the building of Royal London House that occupies the site now [
its got a Kentucky Fried Chicken on the ground floor ].

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