BOURNEMOUTH GRANT TOO
BURLINGTON HOTEL. OWLS RD. BOURNEMOUTH. DORSET. NOVEMBER 1993
IN 1868 SIR HENRY DRUMMOND WOLFF HAD A NEW HOUSE BUILT ON LAND HE HAD RECENTLY PURCHASED IN BOSCOMBE. THE LAND LAY ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF SEA RD, THEN KNOWN AS SHORE LANE.
HIS NEW HOME WAS CALLED BOSCOMBE TOWERS AND HIS ESTATE WAS CALLED BOSCOMBE SPA, THIS AT A TIME WHEN THERE WAS VERY LITTLE DEVELOPMENT AT BOSCOMBE, AND AT A TIME WHEN BOURNEMOUTH WAS STILL A FLEDGLING TOWN CENTERING AROUND THE MOUTH OF THE BOURNE STREAM A FEW MILES TO THE WEST.
IN 1893 THE BURLINGTON HOTEL OPENED IN OWLS RD ADJACENT TO BOSCOMBE TOWERS AND ANOTHER DETACHED PROPERTY CALLED TANKERVILLE.
BOSCOMBE TOWERS BECAME AN ANNEX TO THE HOTEL BUT WAS DEMOLISHED IN THE 1930s TO MAKE WAY FOR NEW TENNIS COURTS.
TANKERVILLE WAS ALSO A HOTEL BUT IT WAS DEMOLISHED IN THE 1950s.
AS FOR THE BURLINGTON ITSELF, IT WAS A LARGE 200 ROOM HOTEL THAT CONTINUED TO TRADE UNTIL IT WAS REQUISITIONED DURING WW2, AFTER WHICH IT FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO SURVIVE, ALTHOUGH IT DID MANAGE TO LIMP THROUGH THE COMING YEARS DESPITE PLANS TO REPLACE IT WITH FLATS OR TO CONVERT IT INTO A SHOPPING ARCADE.
IN 1960 THE TOWN'S FIRST CASINO OPENED HERE AND IN THE LATE 1990s PART OF THE HOTEL BUILDING WAS CONVERTED TO FLATS WITH THE REST OF THE HOTEL FOLLOWING SUITE SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, A SCHEME THAT HAS ENSURED THE GRADE 2 LISTED BUILDING'S SURVIVAL FOR YEARS TO COME.
BURLINGTON HOTEL. OWLS RD. BOURNEMOUTH. DORSET. NOVEMBER 1993
IN 1868 SIR HENRY DRUMMOND WOLFF HAD A NEW HOUSE BUILT ON LAND HE HAD RECENTLY PURCHASED IN BOSCOMBE. THE LAND LAY ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF SEA RD, THEN KNOWN AS SHORE LANE.
HIS NEW HOME WAS CALLED BOSCOMBE TOWERS AND HIS ESTATE WAS CALLED BOSCOMBE SPA, THIS AT A TIME WHEN THERE WAS VERY LITTLE DEVELOPMENT AT BOSCOMBE, AND AT A TIME WHEN BOURNEMOUTH WAS STILL A FLEDGLING TOWN CENTERING AROUND THE MOUTH OF THE BOURNE STREAM A FEW MILES TO THE WEST.
IN 1893 THE BURLINGTON HOTEL OPENED IN OWLS RD ADJACENT TO BOSCOMBE TOWERS AND ANOTHER DETACHED PROPERTY CALLED TANKERVILLE.
BOSCOMBE TOWERS BECAME AN ANNEX TO THE HOTEL BUT WAS DEMOLISHED IN THE 1930s TO MAKE WAY FOR NEW TENNIS COURTS.
TANKERVILLE WAS ALSO A HOTEL BUT IT WAS DEMOLISHED IN THE 1950s.
AS FOR THE BURLINGTON ITSELF, IT WAS A LARGE 200 ROOM HOTEL THAT CONTINUED TO TRADE UNTIL IT WAS REQUISITIONED DURING WW2, AFTER WHICH IT FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO SURVIVE, ALTHOUGH IT DID MANAGE TO LIMP THROUGH THE COMING YEARS DESPITE PLANS TO REPLACE IT WITH FLATS OR TO CONVERT IT INTO A SHOPPING ARCADE.
IN 1960 THE TOWN'S FIRST CASINO OPENED HERE AND IN THE LATE 1990s PART OF THE HOTEL BUILDING WAS CONVERTED TO FLATS WITH THE REST OF THE HOTEL FOLLOWING SUITE SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, A SCHEME THAT HAS ENSURED THE GRADE 2 LISTED BUILDING'S SURVIVAL FOR YEARS TO COME.