Sarah Bedford

BSc Botany MA MCLIP Librarian, Green Party and Unison member, Guardian reader, spinster crazy cat lady. Tweets my own etc.

[UK Thunderstorm Updates @UKStormUpdates]

Direct hit for those in Bournemouth - I'd imagine some fair-sized hail is falling from this judging by the radar.

[Sarah Bedford @BomoSarah]

Video from a friends Facebook https://t.co/uvd4EBuJU6?

[Sarah Bedford @BomoSarah]

St Margaret’s Avenue, Christchurch BH23 1JD was flooded at 10.45am this morning - plus construction work & vehicles obstructing junction with Wick Lane - middle of road drivable - if drivers take turns @Bournemouthecho

[Sarah Bedford @BomoSarah]

St Margaret’s Avenue, Christchurch BH23 1JD was flooded at 10.45am this morning - plus construction work & vehicles obstructing junction with Wick Lane - middle of road drivable - if drivers take turns @Bournemouthecho

[Alex McKinstry @AlexMcKinstry1]

But then - BUT THEN - having underbid for years, Bournemouth Borough Council finally acquired the beach from Bedford on 18 April 1956, and was thus able to advance its cliff stabilisation programme, which it had begun about five years previously ... 17/

[Alex McKinstry @AlexMcKinstry1]

When a tank landing craft, presumably from D-Day, was washed up on the beach in 1948, Bedford got his eleven-year-old son to slice it up with an oxyacetylene cutter; most of the steel was then used to reinforce the promenade. 15/

[Alex McKinstry @AlexMcKinstry1]

... Also Huntly Road, Alyth Road, Newstead Road, upper Seafield Road, Winsley Avenue, Glendale Road & elsewhere, most of these houses being characterised by THE ARTHUR BEDFORD GATEPOST (18 square inches of Kinson pottery bricks, tapering at the top) ... 11/

[Alex McKinstry @AlexMcKinstry1]

He went on to build these LUSCIOUS properties in the Iford district (giving his name to Bedford Crescent in the process), then proceeded to build the neo-Tudor houses in Verona Avenue (bottom right), Lombard Avenue, Lucerne Avenue, Geneva Avenue ... 10/

[Alex McKinstry @AlexMcKinstry1]

Besides building a new cafe and rows & rows of beach huts, Bedford's main improvements (effected across 1947-50) entailed building a promenade to keep the waves back, using Bransgore-gravel-based concrete reinforced with sheet piling ... 14/

[Andy Martin @andym_editor]

….and a joyous, illuminating, spectacular @artsbythesea evening. This is what a town centre needs! @BCPCouncil @ace_national @Bournemouthecho @richherrett

[Cath Parslow 💙 @73cath]

Great firework finale @artsbythesea in #Bournemouth this evening. @VisitBMTH @Bournemouthecho @PyriteCreative @ace_national #ArtsByTheSea2024 #TheHoneyPot🔥🎆

[Dean Johnson @activrightbrain]

‘The Honey Pot’ from every angle on #Bournemouth Beach ahead of tonight’s fire-filled and fantastic @artsbythesea firework finale!

#ArtsByTheSea2024 #art #artsbythesea #Bournemouth #LumaAI #AI

[Arts by the Sea Fest @artsbythesea]

The Honey Pot is looking spectacular tonight🤩 Head to East Cliff Zig Zag and check it out🍯

#ArtsbytheSea2024

[Dani Hanlon @potatoprayers]

@Bournemouthecho fire on Southbourne Clifftop

[Anthony James Davis @anthonyjdavis79]

@Bournemouthecho

[Bournemouth Echo @Bournemouthecho]

LIVE: Huge plumes of smoke come from Bournemouth seafront cliff https://t.co/Z54QEu89md

[Sarah Bedford @BomoSarah]

@dorsetpolice Mountain bike worth £500 Specialized Hotrocks blue mens been abandoned in footpath from Glenroyd Gardens to Carbery Avenue BH6 3LW for a week #Tuckton #Southbourne

[Lorna Rees @thegobbledegook]

Me and my eldest kid just drove down to the beach at half midnight in our nightwear to see the sky lights. Met another couple also in their pyjamas doing the same. Cars dotted all along the cliff top looking up. Was really lovely. #auroreboreale

[RandomCamden @RandomCamden]

#Auroraborealis #Bournemouth #southbourne
Crazy, crazy scenes at midnight here on the South Coast of the UK in Dorset!

[The Elstead Hotel @ElsteadHotel]

Check out this weekend's @artsbythesea festival shows around Bournemouth town centre.
#WeekendVibes

[Sarah Bedford @BomoSarah]

@PlanesTV

[Bournemouth Echo @Bournemouthecho]

Bournemouth Air Festival: Council 'hopeful' Red Arrows will fly https://t.co/MHHSU302Bq