The Bodleian Library at Oxford has a rare exhibition displaying many items belonging to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and once in the care of Lady Shelley at Shelley Park in Boscombe.
I have written a report in the Bournemouth Daily Echo.
Gillian Darley has compiled a radio tribute to Bournemouth-born architect Elisabeth Scott who won fame by designing Stratford’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Elisabeth Scott, Architect is on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 30 January at 9.30pm.
The search for new facts took Gillian Darley to looking at the local connections from Elisabeth’s childhood in Poole Road to her last major work, Bournemouth’s Pier Theatre.
The presenter has written an article about the forgotten architect in The Guardian.
See page 136.
It’s interesting to hear Boris Johnson on Radio 4 claiming that investment in London is bringing jobs to Bournemouth.
I wonder if at that moment he recalled that Bournemouth is his ‘home’ town where his grandfather Osman Kemal was born.
See page 91.
Thursday 18 November 2010 is the bicentenary of the birth of Admiral Thomas Sulivan.
This comes in Bournemouth’s bicentenary year and he has been called Bournemouth’s forgotten hero. That description comes from John Cresswell, Bournemouth Natural Science Society curator, who last week delivered a lecture about him under the title ‘Bournemouth’s Most Illustrious Resident’.
He sailed with Charles Darwin, brought plants back to England, lived on the Falkland Islands and retired to Bournemouth where he took an active part in the life of the town.
John’s researches continue and I look forward to further talks and I hope a book.
See page 148.
This weekend’s news that Pontin’s has called in administrators after suffering from the recession will bring back memories of the founder.
Sir Fred Pontin lived at Pine Grange in Bath Road although he and his wife Joyce ended up living in Blackpool which was their dream.
The nearest Pontin’s to Bournemouth was Wick Ferry at Christchurch.
See page 120.
