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  • After dinner, still hungry, we would stroll out to our favourite Forte's cafe and tuck into vanilla slices and mugs of Horlicks, waiting for the late August sky to darken before the Austin chugged along the seafront between Boscombe and Bournemouth piers, as we oohhed and aahed at fairy lights on lampposts and the moon shimmering on the sea.

    Family life 2011

  • The fictional Dr. Watson caught a hint of this in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery": I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a yellow-backed novel.

    A three pipe problem Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • The fictional Dr. Watson caught a hint of this in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery": I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a yellow-backed novel.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • In one post about plans to build Europe's first artificial surf reef in Boscombe, the Labour councillor wrote: At least two councillors seem to be concerned about this mess.

    Ben Grower (Labour Clr) - Caught praising himself. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • The trip (organized by the Southampton Natural History Society) was to Southbourne and Boscombe Cliffs, Dorset, and the main purpose was to see Western green lizards Lacerta bilineata*.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Mrs. Irene Graham of Thorpe Avenue, Boscombe, delighted the audience with her reminiscence of the German prisoner of war who was sent each week to do her garden.

    Pick and Mix for the weekend relief Valleys Mam 2008

  • Jon is an outstanding, experienced naturalist (and excellent photographer, and professional taxidermist) and he might be best known for his association with the recently discovered green lizards of Boscombe Cliffs, Bournemouth (see Hunting green lizards in Dorset: new aliens or old natives?).

    Oh deer oh deer oh deer Darren Naish 2006

  • Jon is an outstanding, experienced naturalist (and excellent photographer, and professional taxidermist) and he might be best known for his association with the recently discovered green lizards of Boscombe Cliffs, Bournemouth (see Hunting green lizards in Dorset: new aliens or old natives?).

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Conservative activists here in Bournemouth, Boscombe, and Poole are furious and will be demanding answers I can assure you all of that.

    You Either Believe in Freedom of Information Or You Don't 2007

  • I remember several of us going to a disco in Boscombe out of sheer desperation.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Jessica 2005

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