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Bath Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 2PP

The 13 bus to Wimborne passes Jacey House at Image Now occupied by a restaurant on the ground floor, this was originally offices. In the red panel in the centre of the circular section is the date 1891. Until a few years ago the very top was adorned with the words 'JACEY HOUSE' in large letters, as can be seen in the background of Image

The view from the top deck of a bus along the final, uphill stretch of Old Christchurch Road as it reaches Image Directly ahead is the fine College clock tower which is discussed in more detail here: Image and Image

Italian restaurant at the corner of Old Christchurch and Bath Roads. Compare its graceful Victorian proportions with the 1960s brutalism of Image opposite.

Pub/bar at the corner of Old Christchurch & Lansdowne Roads. Internally, two bars on different levels, each with drinking/eating areas (the upper is less noisy). Irish themed; no cask ales on offer. For some customer comments, see http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/19/199/ONeills/Bournemouth

The large building on the left is Royal London House, then the offices of Royal London Insurance. Today it is occupied as Bournemouth University student accommodation, with on the ground floor a KFC restaurant. The building on this site 70 years ago was the Metropole Hotel that suffered so terribly in the devastating Luftwaffe air raid of 23 May 1943 http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2013/04/a-minute-of-intense-devastation-bournemouths-bloodiest-air-raid/. On the right is the Roundhouse Hotel opened in 1969, and beyond, the *Lansdowne clock tower of the Bournemouth Municipal College that opened in 1913. Bournemouth Public Library formed a part of this building until a new purpose-built library was opened in the Triangle in 2002. *A gruesome discovery was made at the clock tower after the 1943 air raid, when a body that had been blown clear of the Metropole Hotel, was only recovered after laying undiscovered for over a week. Authorities had been alerted to investigate after it was observed that seagulls were mysteriously gathering there. A memorial to the dead was unveiled nearby on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the raid on 23 May 2013. Image

This shot was taken further round on the roundabout, with the Roundhouse in view on the left. View taken looking west-southwest.