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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Dorset => Topic started by: big g on Sunday 26 February 12 11:15 GMT (UK)
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I found on the 1901 census that my gt.grandparents were staying in a boarding/guest house, at 101 Old Christ Church Road, Bournemouth. Is this property still there?
Glenys
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Have you tried Google Earth? It looks as if it is shops with flats above. The Halifax Building Society is number 103/105 so it must be next to that - the one that is now You Home.
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Hello,
May still be of interest, Ground level of 101 is now basically a shop, at the moment YOU HOME, the upper stories are flats. 101 was one of a very nice terrace, I guess Victorian, as shown.
Regards.
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Hi,
You might find something on this newish site:
www.streets-of-bournemouth.org.uk
Nanny Jan
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At least in central Bournemouth the shops and business premises are being lived over. All too often in other cities the groundfloor only is in use, resulting in a neighbourhood which becomes a ghost town after the shops shut. An area where I lived previously had a resident population of 8 people in the town centre; they were the landlords and live-in staff of public houses.
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I used to live at No 87 Old Christchurch Road - there was a Dance Studio on the first floor and flats on the second and third floors - we called the placed Halfway to Heaven - there were over 80 stairs to the top flat and no lift! That was back in 1970 and I don't think things have changed much since in that area - all of the other properties were very similar - apart from No 81 where there was a Club (called the 81 Club!)
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raven-1,
Thank you so much for that info. and the pic. I will keep it and add to Family Tree Maker.
Nanny jan,
Thanks for the link.
MarionH,
So very interesting to know what these buildings were used for. 80 steps to your flat - you must have been fit !! ;)
Glenys
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Update.
From a further census I have found that No.101 had a total of 13 rooms, occupied by an Ernesto Bertini, born Italy, Professor of Music ,by teaching Music and Singing, his wife and two daughters 8)
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Hi,
Little more on 101.
101 Old Christchurch Rd. formed part of the ‘Dalkeith Buildings’ built in 1893,
At the lower western end, toward the Square, believed at No 87, was the Dalkeith Hotel.
Pictures give a flavour of the road around the turn of the century. 101 would be up the hill but just out of shot.
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Under the British Listed Buildings you will find that the Dalkeith Hotel went from 83 - 101 Old Christchurh Road -
1. OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
5186 (North Side)
SZ 09 SE 13/150 No 83-101, (Dalkeith Building
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Terrace of shops, offices and dwellings. Dated 1893. Principally brick with limestone trim and detailing, and some sections of timber framing; steep roofs, with plain tiles and various multiple stacks with 'Tudor' detailing. A long run of building with complex varieties of eclectic detailing including 'free-style' elements deep wings at back with canted corners and courtyards. Four-and-a-half storeys, from rounded corner at left hand end, 2 bays in brick, 3 with 2 storeys of timber framed projecting double-gabled bays, central bay in brick, 3 bays to right of centre as to left, brick terminal bay and octagonal turret extreme-right. Bays generally marked by octagonal brick piers. Variety of windows, all with plate glass, sash, many with upper sashes containing glazing bars to small square panes; hexagonal bays at first floor under stone detailed overhang, and in timber gabled upper two storeys, cross-mullioned casements, and decorative bargeboards. At back are deep wings with canted corners, and pointed arch spanning two-storey recesses at party walls. At left and right-hand ends are grouped Venetian Gothic windows at first floor. This is a very rich eclectic building, which has retained almost all of its detail from origin; only the ground floor has gone to continuous varied late C20 shop fronts. In the
context of much architecture of this period in Bournemouth, this is an excellent
and bold terrace of strong personality.
The entrance to the Hotel was on the corner of the Dalkeith steps at No 83.
Marion