Bournemouth Coast Path - by Leigh Hatts

Updates from @Leigh_Hatts, author of Exploring The Bournemouth Coast Path published by Countryside Books

[Bournemouth Coast Path - by Leigh Hatts @BournemouthPath]

Shelley Theatre: @TomHayesBmouth says building will reopen for ‘community use’

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Accident was at Southbourne-on-Sea during Bournemouth Centenary Airshow

[Rotherhithe Connections - People & Place @IRotherhithe]

OTD 12 July 1910 Death of Charles Rolls,killed when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display
Co-founder with Henry Royce of @rollsroycecars
The Rolls family were originally from the Grange #Bermondsey & family memorials can be seen at St Mary Magdalen Church

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Not walkers

[Sandbanks Ferry @SandbanksFerry]

NEW PAYMENT SYSTEM: From today, Wednesday 1st July 2026, all vehicle toll payments (including motorcycles) are made online.
Pay your toll via https://t.co/I49HYFPfuF
Set up your account now or pay as you go.

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JB Priestley in Bournemouth’s Royal Bath Hotel garden in 1941 featured in @countrylifemag . Exhibition at Dimbola Museum, Isle of Wight

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Lived in Bournemouth & founded Westminster’s Victoria Tower Gardens

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

24 June 1825. William Henry (“WH”) Smith, newsagent and bookseller, was born in London. He introduced the practice of selling books and newspapers at railway stations beginning at London’s Euston Station in 1848. He later became a Conservative MP and a cabinet minister.

[Sandbanks Ferry @SandbanksFerry]

From 1 July 2026, a new Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system will be in place for all vehicle crossings on The Sandbanks Ferry. All vehicle toll payments (including motorcycles) will be made online. More information: https://t.co/pduqhO3KAU

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Lived in Bournemouth. Her brother Lord Granville, foreign secretary, came by sea to visit her.

[Real Roman Catholic Women @RealRCWomen]

Meet GEORGIANA FULLERTON (1812-1885), daughter of the Earl of Granville; highly-praised novelist who alienated some British critics by converting to Catholicism; biographer; Franciscan tertiary; & major Victorian philanthropist, especially after her only child, a son, died at 21.

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Swanage Information Centre celebrates 90th anniversary – Swanage News https://t.co/Udjj4OWXAg

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& GtGt granddaughter of Ernest Cassel who bequeathed her mother Branksome Dene Hall on the Poole-Bournemouth coast.

[Alastair Bruce @AlastairBruce_]

Lady Pamela Hicks died today

GtGtGrandDaughter of Queen Victoria.

She accompanied her parents, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, when they were the last Viceroy and Vicereine of India.

… and was with Elizabeth II in Kenya, when she became Queen.

She lived and served through an extraordinary life - another school friend of my late mother’s has been gathered.

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Attended @TalbotHeathSch Bournemouth

[Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board @Oxblueplaques]

On 9 May 2026 an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled at 303 Woodstock Road, Oxford to Lucy Faithfull (Baroness Faithfull of Wolvercote), known as "Mother to hundreds" when she served as children's officer and then Director of Social Services in Oxford https://t.co/y9dfcscpBI

[St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth @StStephensBmth]

Want a printed copy of our May Festival leaflet with details of all eight events we're hosting over the bank holiday weekend? Pop in to Bournemouth Tourist Information Centre next to the pier and you'll find them in a prime spot just inside the door

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Diggers on ‘fragile’ Sandbanks beach

https://t.co/weR1CQDW8f

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Rachel Johnson in Studland

https://t.co/WDPwESCEca

[Sandbanks Ferry @SandbanksFerry]

REMINDER:
From tomorrow (1st April 2026), the new toll fare changes will come into effect.

As from 1st April, the ferry will also be moving to cashless operation only.

Please refer to our website for full details: https://t.co/W9etz1GCwp

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Clifftop house just east of Branksome Dene Chine for sale

https://t.co/LNiv3XWsgY

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Last church on Dorset Coast Path before Poole & then Bournemouth Coast Path

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

I dropped into St Nicholas Church in Studland yesterday to say a prayer, enjoy the atmosphere, and honour the memory of T F Powys.
An elderly gentleman from Bournemouth joined me. A kind soul , bemused by a changing world, and with no trace of grievance at strangers.🙏

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On the coast path up the cliff slope east of @BmouthPier

[Jessica Toale MP @JessicaToale]

✨Visit the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum for free this weekend✨

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Toft Steps/ZigZag?

[𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 @Matt_Pinner]

OMG i finally did it!!

I finally got the shot iv always wanted.

I really hope you like it!

Let me know ❤️

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Chewton Bunny: This has happened here before. Best not to go on the beach.

https://t.co/RlaQ5rqxbX

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Chewton Bunny beach emergency

https://t.co/dGayfhJwvB