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KFC occupy the ground floor at the narrow point and HSBC around the corner . Wetherspoons looking at pictures from 1943 occupy floors to the left within the devastated building. The buildings of a lesser height adjacent to the bombed building are still standing and the upper floors are as...

A report on the event and video of the unveiling ceremony VIDEO: Memorial to victims of "Bournemouth's bleakest day" unveiled today (From Bournemouth Echo)

Military deaths: Bournemouth bombings of 23 May 1943 (From Bournemouth Echo) Civilian war dead: Bournemouth bombings of 23 May 1943 (From Bournemouth Echo) These 2 links give more information of the persons who lost their lives that day

On Thursday the 23 May 2013 at 1230hrs a memorial will be unveiled at the Lansdowne Bournemouth across the roads from the Metropole now a Wetherspoons. The galling thing nobody has been invited by Bournemouth Council who were involved at the time, in fact they are trying their hardest to...

I can recall them coming line abreast from the East very low and my mother picking me up and making for the next door's air raid shelter , but we never made it as the house collapsed on us burying us for hours, the only wound I received was the corner of a brick ripping my knee open, still bear...

It could not have been called Lansdowne Circle as the roundabout was not constructed till several years after the war after