Bournemouth: demolition of Fircroft Hotel on St John's Road, Boscombe
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Bournemouth: demolition of Fircroft Hotel on St John's Road, Boscombe
Image: © Jonathan Hutchins Taken: Unknown
The hotel closed in 2005 and the site became derelict. In due course it became a resort of serious drug abusers, and I myself, living opposite, witnessed a raid with a small file of police in full riot gear. It was demolished in 2008 and the site now is occupied by a development of 63 flats.
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