Hidden secrets of Bournemouth walk
28 intrepid ladies – and one husband – set off in freezing conditions on Monday morning. Our guide, Hattie, explained that although Bournemouth is little more than 200 years old, it has a fascinating, if short, history. The statue outside the BIC, by sculptor Jonathan Sells, is of Lewis Tregonwell, considered to be the founder of Bournemouth, as he built the first house here. The other man on this statue is Christopher Crabb Creeke, the man who designed the sewage system. He is portrayed sitting on a toilet!
Points of interest were Bournemouth Pier, built at a cost of £2,600 in 1880, the Russell-Cotes Museum and Art Gallery, the Arcade, built in 1866 as two rows of shops with the glazed roof added in 1872. The façade of the jeweller’s shop still has the polished brass base advertising the original cigar importing business. This walk is well worth doing next time you are in Bournemouth.
Ann Fox
We had a very interesting talk from two of the Rangers about their jobs in this unique environment. The habitat ranges over heathland, woodland, shore and even archaeological sites. Hengistbury was one of the original trading ports in the south, exchanging tin from Cornwall for wine and luxury goods from the continent, but also millennia ago you could have walked from there to France without getting your feet wet!
We viewed live feed from cameras at feeding and nesting sites but also set out for a shorter than intended walk round the site. The wild birds, insects and amphibians were hiding from the cold—wise creatures, but many of us are determined to pay another visit to Hengistbury Head.
Fiona Marwick Visit to Hengistbury Head
More than 60 of us set out, well wrapped up, for a visit to this wonderful nature reserve. What an experience! And I don’t mean the biting cold though it was difficult to ignore it!
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