Sunday 15 December is the 150th anniversary of the Highcliff Hotel’s opening 1874. The large building had been completed a year earlier as a terrace…
Author: Leigh Hatts
Leigh Hatts is an experienced walker and has known the local coastline since childhood. He is the author of many successful walking guides.
Brownsea squirrel on new coin
The new two pence coin issued for the reign of King Charles III features a red squirrel as found on Brownsea Island and the Isle…
Sir Ed plays golf on coast path with Times Radio
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has been up and down the coast path on Bournemouth’s West Cliff over the weekend during the Liberal Democrat…
Sisi: 125th anniversary of Empress Elisabeth’s death
Today Bournemouth’s Royal Exeter Hotel could be flying the Empress of Austria’s standard. In 1888 she gave the hotel permission to do so on Sundays….
Tolkien’s love of Bournemouth: 50th anniversary
Saturday 2 September will be the 50th anniversary of JRR Tolkien’s death in Bournemouth where he loved the coast. The author of author of The…
Shelley’s birthday
Friday August 4 is the Duchess of Sussex’s birthday. Once it was a much more important Royal birthday. When the Queen Mother was alive the…
Indian commemoration at Barton on Sea
The annual commemoration at Barton on Sea’s Indian Soldiers’ Memorial took place on Monday. Civic leaders present included the Mayors of Bournemouth and Christchurch. The…
Fisherman’s Walk visit
Fisherman’s Walk, the quarter of a mile inland path from the cliff, between Boscombe and Southbourne, was a direct route for the scattered village of…
A cool stream flowing down the Bourne Chine to sea
This week 213 years ago Lewis and Henrietta Tregonwell set out by carriage from Mudeford to visit Bourne Mouth where two years later they built…