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Sarah Bedford retweeted
Winds as expected now really picking up across Dorset and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Please take care on the roads across BCP and across the wider area.
75mph The Isle of Portland Lighthouse
67mph The Needles
55 mph Yeovilton
55 mph Merryfield
54mph Hengistbury Head NCI Station **
51 mph Bournemouth Hurn
49mph Hurst Castle **
** Not an official Met Office Station, but is a Valid NCI Coastguard Reading.
Winds still strong across Devon and Cornwall so expect the strong winds to continue from the NW for most of the afternoon. #StormAusten is now over NE France and there is the wrap around front moving into the area, so expect further rain at times this afternoon.
@Bournemouthecho @DorsetLive_ @Dorsetecho
Sarah Bedford retweeted
Direct hit for those in Bournemouth - I'd imagine some fair-sized hail is falling from this judging by the radar.
Video from a friends Facebook facebook.com/share/r/1FByoit…?
St Margaret’s Avenue, Christchurch BH23 1JD was flooded at 10.45am this morning - plus construction work & vehicles obstructing junction with Wick Lane - middle of road drivable - if drivers take turns @Bournemouthecho
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St Margaret’s Avenue, Christchurch BH23 1JD was flooded at 10.45am this morning - plus construction work & vehicles obstructing junction with Wick Lane - middle of road drivable - if drivers take turns @Bournemouthecho
Sarah Bedford retweeted
But then - BUT THEN - having underbid for years, Bournemouth Borough Council finally acquired the beach from Bedford on 18 April 1956, and was thus able to advance its cliff stabilisation programme, which it had begun about five years previously ... 17/
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When a tank landing craft, presumably from D-Day, was washed up on the beach in 1948, Bedford got his eleven-year-old son to slice it up with an oxyacetylene cutter; most of the steel was then used to reinforce the promenade. 15/
Sarah Bedford retweeted
... Also Huntly Road, Alyth Road, Newstead Road, upper Seafield Road, Winsley Avenue, Glendale Road & elsewhere, most of these houses being characterised by THE ARTHUR BEDFORD GATEPOST (18 square inches of Kinson pottery bricks, tapering at the top) ... 11/
Sarah Bedford retweeted
He went on to build these LUSCIOUS properties in the Iford district (giving his name to Bedford Crescent in the process), then proceeded to build the neo-Tudor houses in Verona Avenue (bottom right), Lombard Avenue, Lucerne Avenue, Geneva Avenue ... 10/
Sarah Bedford retweeted
Besides building a new cafe and rows & rows of beach huts, Bedford's main improvements (effected across 1947-50) entailed building a promenade to keep the waves back, using Bransgore-gravel-based concrete reinforced with sheet piling ... 14/
Sarah Bedford retweeted
….and a joyous, illuminating, spectacular @artsbythesea evening. This is what a town centre needs! @BCPCouncil @ace_national @Bournemouthecho @richherrett
Sarah Bedford retweeted
Great firework finale @artsbythesea in #Bournemouth this evening. @VisitBMTH @Bournemouthecho @PyriteCreative @ace_national #ArtsByTheSea2024 #TheHoneyPot🔥🎆
Sarah Bedford retweeted
‘The Honey Pot’ from every angle on #Bournemouth Beach ahead of tonight’s fire-filled and fantastic @artsbythesea firework finale!
#ArtsByTheSea2024 #art #artsbythesea #Bournemouth #LumaAI #AI
Sarah Bedford retweeted
The Honey Pot is looking spectacular tonight🤩 Head to East Cliff Zig Zag and check it out🍯
#ArtsbytheSea2024
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LIVE: Huge plumes of smoke come from Bournemouth seafront cliff ift.tt/GocMJeC
Sarah Bedford retweeted
Me and my eldest kid just drove down to the beach at half midnight in our nightwear to see the sky lights. Met another couple also in their pyjamas doing the same. Cars dotted all along the cliff top looking up. Was really lovely. #auroreboreale
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#Auroraborealis #Bournemouth #southbourne
Crazy, crazy scenes at midnight here on the South Coast of the UK in Dorset! – at Bournemouth, England
Sarah Bedford retweeted
Check out this weekend's @artsbythesea festival shows around Bournemouth town centre.
#WeekendVibes
Sarah Bedford retweeted
Fire at Southbourne cliff 'started deliberately' bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2…
