Bournemouth: old painted advert, Commercial Road
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Bournemouth: old painted advert, Commercial Road
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 27 Sep 2011
Looking across the junction of St. Michael's Road onto Commercial Road, with a faded advertisement on the corner premises now occupied by Betfred the bookmakers. It appears that the advert may have been superimposed onto an earlier one. I stood here for a couple of minutes trying to make out what it said - it finishes with the words BUTCHERS and (less certainly) FRUITERERS, but I really couldn't make out the company name across the top. The Kelly's Directory of 1975 answers that particular question and the name is W.H. Vye & Sons - what I thought was FRUITERERS is actually POULTERERS.
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Image Location
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50.71956
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-1.885207