Coloured postcard of river and trees in Branksome Chine, Bournemouth (now Poole). Ink: [personal mesage] [address in Southsea supplied]. The Branksome area in Bournemouth was officially declared a suburb of Poole in the 1960s. Branksome Chine, also known as Branksome Dene Chine, had been developed from the late 19th century as a tourist area, with plantings of rhododendrons to form a woodland garden; a solarium was opened in 1932