Identifying a Bournemouth building

[Lizziefritz]

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?

[Lisajj]

I think you should be ok with photos.
Do you live in the Bournemouth area?  I have family there, so maybe able to help.  You can always send it me as a private message, but I think you are ok with putting photos on.

[Lizziefritz]

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

[rachelralph]

i know bournemouth quite well but i am only in my late 20's, so i might not be of much use im afraid. the link does work but the picture is very small and i havent worked out how to zoom in using the new mozilla. if you could post a slighty bigger picture it might help x

[spiderboy]

The photo is actually of The Square looking towards Old Christchurch Road with the Upper Pleasure Gardens on the right. Due to the size I can only see 2 Xs but they seem to be on buildings that might be on Westover Road or maybe beyond that on Bath Hill. A larger photo would certainly help.

[Lizziefritz]

I re-scanned the photo.  Hope it is bigger now.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/60876400@N06/5855979295/

[Jebber]

Spiderboy is not quite correct, it is the lower pleasure gardens on the right.

All three buildings are in Westover Road, the top one X  is a hotel which used to be called the Palace Court Hotel, (I worked in a part of the same building in the 1950s) it is now a Premier Inn, opposite  the Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom.
The next X is above where the Geaumont Cinema and the Ice Rink  used to be,  The lowest X is simply above a row of shops, it may have been the intention to indicate the ABC Cinema, all old haunt in my youth.

If you go to Google maps and enter Westover Road, you can see how it is today. there is also a picture of the Gaumont on Flicker


http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/332829461/

Jebber

[Lizziefritz]

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?

[Jebber]

I was born during the war, but I remember being taken down to the beach afterwards and seeing some of the barricades still in place.

Fullers Teas Shop was near the Gaumont Cinema.

I have been trying to find some old pictures for you, but I am not having much luck. I have some old photos, but they are packed away somewhere out of reach in the loft.

Jebber