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Arcade Re-Launch Event
Now that the essential replacement of the top part of the Arcade roof has been completed, you can rediscovered the bright and airy historical building. The Arcade is the centre of Westbourne; attracting loyal customers from near and far.
Everyone is invited to celebrate the completion of essential repairs of our famous shopping destination.
On Saturday 24th July there will be a special event to thank loyal customers for continuing to shop with the local traders during this difficult time.
There will be lots of entertainment in the Arcade, and traders will be offering customers a glass of wine, nibbles and special discounts.
Roadworks Update
Poole Road – between St Michael’s roundabout & Clarendon Road
Temporary road closure (westbound traffic only) until 19th July 2010 during Southern Gas Network’s installation of new gas main.
Delays expected
Portarlington Road – between Clarendon Road & Grosvenor Road
Temporary suspension of 2 hour parking until 19th July 2010 during Southern Gas Network’s installation of new gas main on Poole Road.
The Triangle
Temporary carriageway and footway restrictions until 5th July 2010 during Bournemouth Borough Council’s highways alterations.
Some delays expected.
July Westbourne Magazine
We are proud to announce the July edition of the Westbourne Magazine is out now.
In this edition we have news of the welcome end to scaffolding in the Westbourne Arcade, why the library is closing and why dementia work in the area has caught international attention. There is also a great new competition, puzzles and offers and sales from excellent local traders.
In the July competition we have a family ticket (up to 4 people) for a show at the Poole Lighthouse. Find out more and enter online here.
Missed a previous edition? Read all our back copies online here.
June Westbourne Magazine
The June edition of the Westbourne Magazine is out now.
You can pick up your free copy in local shops, cafes, offices and across Bournemouth and Poole. In this edition we have more local reaction to Tesco coming to Westbourne, details of the court decision on Ralph Millward's killers, meet your new MP plus more local news and info.
There is loads going on in June see a list of events on page 5 and Social Groups on page 15.
The June Competition is now open and you can win a full three course lunch for 4 at Pâtisserie Angélique.
Fab Frocks Wins Regional Award
Bournemouth-based Fab Frocks of Westbourne has won the Women in Dorset Small Business Award.
At the first sell-out Dorset Business Women Awards event, Fab Frocks, which specialises in evening, cocktail, prom and mother-of-the-bride outfits, beat fourteen other entries to win the Small Business category.
Fab Frocks is owned by Tracie Beardsley and Steve Taylor and over the past eight years has become a destination boutique serving customers from as far away as Ireland, London, Channel Islands, Norfolk and Devon. In 2009, Fab Frocks expanded and opened Dorset’s first and only dedicated mother-of-the-bride boutique.
Bournemouth 1810-2010: Smugglers to Surfers
To celebrate Bournemouth’s bicentenary year, a distinguished team of writers was commissioned to tell the town’s extraordinary 200 year history. The result is a remarkable portrait of a place that has grown from a handful of houses overlooking the Bourne stream into an internationally famous resort. Surfers ride waves that once carried smugglers’ boats high on to sands that today are amongst Bournemouth’s most popular attractions. Illustrated with over 350 maps, photographs, paintings, posters, engravings and portraits – many of them rare and never published before.
Histories of the town written in the past have tended to concentrate on the municipal record rather than that of the communities and their activities that have made Bournemouth so distinctive a place. The authors have written independently about themes that interest them and they have described some of its characteristics from their individual viewpoints. You are able to see Bournemouth through the eyes of people who have lived here through the years. The illustrations used include in particular some of the Day Collection of glass negatives dating from 1862 showing the early development of the town as well as images from the Russell-Cotes Art gallery and Museum and other repositories. This is a history of a place that, despite its heath-land location, grew because of its attraction for healthy and active living – a health resort – whose citizens have adapted to war, changes in social structures and employment at the same time as their town remade itself to meet new opportunities.
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