This print shows a hotel called the Bath Hotel. This hotel today is called the Royal Bath Hotel. In some ways both hotels are similar. Can you describe at least 5 ways in which the hotels are different?
What leisure activities are taking place in this area? What leisure activities would you expect to see in this area today?
What methods of transport are being used in this print? What methods of transport would you expect to see in this area today?
What does this print tell you about the way people dressed in Bournemouth in the 19th century?
Can you identify the position of the Bath Hotel on a present day map of Bournemouth?
What can you see in the distance ?
If you stood at the top of this hill today, would the view be the same as in the 19th century?
What other evidence is there in this print of what life was like in 19th century Bournemouth?
What other things would you like to find out about?
Look at the following pictures and use them, with the short history of Bournemouth ;The Smugglers’ Heath that became a famous resort’, to answer these questions:
What was the area that eventually became Bournemouth built upon?
What is significant about the Tregonwell Arms, the oldest part of the Exeter Hotel and Portman Lodge?
Why did Benjamin Ferrey create a plan for Bournemouth?
Describe the different architectural building styles shown in pictures
The pictures show different views of Bournemouth sea front. Which do you feel are the most important changes shown?
Which would be more useful to an historian studying the growth of Bournemouth: Ferrey's plan of the 1830's or the 1884 plan of Bournemouth? Explain your answer.
What do the pictures tell us about the growth of Bournemouth? ;Bournemouth only really began to grow after the coming of the railways in 1870; Do you agree with this interpretation? Use the sources and the information in the text to support your answer.
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