Lower Pleasure Gardens and War Memorial, Bournemouth.
Information
Title
Lower Pleasure Gardens and War Memorial, Bournemouth.
Record type
Ephemera
Original Reference
E/PC/MPG/1/B/568
Author or creator
Unknown
Date
4 Sep 1931
Scope & content
Coloured postcard showing a view of the river and war memorial in the Central Gardens, Bournemouth. Ink: [personal message] [address in Liverpool supplied]. The area of Bournemouth now occupied by the Central Gardens began to be developed as a residential area in the 1840s, and as a public pleasure ground from 1859; this comprised the upper and middle gardens. In 1871 Philip Henry Tree won a competition to design the lower gardens, which were augmented in the 1920s with the addition of the Pavilion and its rock garden at the southern end, and the war memorial and rose garden. Invalids' Walk was renamed Pine Walk in 1917