San Remo Towers - Boscombe (1)
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San Remo Towers - Boscombe (1)
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 7 Sep 2013
A view from Sea Road of this outstanding 75 year old building. San Remo Towers, a large block of 164 luxury flats built in 1935-8 by American architect Hector O'Hamilton. It is in a flamboyant Spanish mission style, which must have raised a few eyebrows back then. Today it is universally admired as a piece of 1930s exotic fantasy, and one of the most impressive seaside developments in England of its period. Grade II listed. One of the highest buildings around at the time, during the Second World War it was one of a number of high rise buildings in Bournemouth that had a light anti-aircraft machine gun post on the roof. ["Bournemouth and the Second World War 1939 - 1945" by M. A. Edgington] Image
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Image Location
Latitude
50.722296
Longitude
-1.840718