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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: Identifying a Bournemouth building
« on: Tuesday 21 June 11 21:53 BST (UK)  »
Thanks.  I did know about the May 23rd raid.  Found out quite a bit about it.  My dad spent the afternoon digging out the dead and wounded from the Metropole and my Mum helped out with a group of kids whose residence had been hit.  That might have all been later on the same day as the strafing but I can't be sure.  They both told me about their parts in that raid separately.  He was newly arrived in Bournemouth that March while she had lived in the Boscombe are since before the war.  She worked at Fuller's Tea Shop. 

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: Identifying a Bournemouth building
« on: Tuesday 21 June 11 17:57 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Spiderboy,

That last bit about the beach really helps as my mother told me a story about being out for a walk with a boyfriend on the beach and being strafed by a German plane.  Some friends told me that the story couldn't be true as the beaches were barricaded and mined.  Sounds like I could be both right and wrong in my recollection of the story.  Would have had to have happened in about 1943.

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: Identifying a Bournemouth building
« on: Tuesday 21 June 11 14:43 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much that really helps.  I wouldn't be surprised if that might have been the hotel where my Dad was billeted during WW2.  Do you know if people could get down to the beaches during the war to go for walks or were they all barricaded off and mined?  Do you know where the Fullers Tea Shop was back then?  Or how I could find out?

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: Identifying a Bournemouth building
« on: Tuesday 21 June 11 12:48 BST (UK)  »
I re-scanned the photo.  Hope it is bigger now.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/60876400@N06/5855979295/

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: Identifying a Bournemouth building
« on: Monday 20 June 11 23:21 BST (UK)  »
I live in Canada.  I was born in Bournemouth but have only visited there once when I was a teen ager.  My parents met there.  I am trying to tell their story. Here is a link to the card that I put on flickr.  Hope this works. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/5854168149_e71efc3639_m.jpg

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Identifying a Bournemouth building
« on: Monday 20 June 11 21:25 BST (UK)  »
I have a picture taken from the Landsdowne in Bournemouth during WW2 with Xs marking three separate buildings.  I am trying to identify where and what those buildings may possibly be.  It is an old postcard and I am not sure if I can post it here as a result.  Can anyone help me please? :)

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