Clippings (4): 1841

Dr Granville. Gordon Estate. St Peter’s Church. Madame Anfossi.

Introduction

Clippings (4) consist of press notices for Dr Granville’s very important endorsement of Bournemouth’s qualities. It also features the bankruptcy of the Gordon Estate which ended his building programme, the building of St Peter’s Church, and evidence that Bournemouth had got onto the entertainment circuit.

Clippings (4): Dr Granville’s endorsement

Bournemouth. This delightful little watering place has received a stimulus of the most gratifying kind, in the testimony to its peculiar physical advantages offered by that eminent authority in the branch of medical science, especially involving spas and watering places, Dr. Granville. Having been called into neighbourhood attendance upon a distinguished patient, the Doctor received an invitation to visit Bournemouth and to dine with a select party at the Bath Hotel on Wednesday last. He accordingly devoted a few days last week to the vicinity, examining the peculiar features of the locality, and making such inquiries and investigations as were necessary to enable him to form a well-grounded conclusion as to the desirableness of the place as resort for invalids. The dinner took place the Bath Hotel Wednesday and was one of the most sumptuous banquets ever partaken of, reflecting high credit upon the taste and experience of Miss Toomer … The great feature of the meeting was the eloquent speech of Dr. Granville, on his health being drunk, from which we extract the following. “I have examined Bourne in all its parts, under sunshine well during the prevalence of wet, and high winds. I have seen what has been done and have heard of what it is intended to do in order to profit of the many advantages which the situation of Bourne offers as a watering-place. And I have no hesitation in stating, as the conclusion of all my observations, which have extended through two whole days, and around as well as within the place, that no situation that I have seen possesses so many capabilities of being made the very first sea-bathing place in England; and not only sea-bathing place, but, what is still more important, a winter residence for the most delicate constitutions requiring a warm and sheltered locality at that season of the year.”

Dorset County Chronicle, Thursday 4th March, 1841, p. 4.

Clippings (4):  The Gordon Estate

… Amongst the discoveries of new sea-watering places made by Dr. Granville, is Bournemouth, a hitherto inconsiderable and almost unknown sea-nook, situated mid-way between the South Foreland and the Land’s End, on the most favourable point of the Hampshire coast, in the centre of the southern shore of England, and which he considers to be one of the most perfect situations for the invalid to be found in this country …

Morning Post, Saturday 31st July, 1841, p. 6.

To carpenters, builders, and others. To be sold … The whole of the brick, tile, and other building materials, of Mr. Wm. Gordon; consisting of about 500,000 white and red bricks and tiles of various descriptions etc etc …

Salisbury and Winchester Journal, Monday 26th April, 1841, p. 3.

A freehold investment … magnitude and importance, possessing very rare qualities, to make certain an immense return for capital, at Bournemouth, the newly created favourite watering-place … There are 1,500 acres of finely wooded and superior land, with brick earth to an extent that seems interminable, with sites for building quite beautiful in every direction. Already there are six first-rate villas in the town and a Grecian lodge entrance. They are the leading feature of the place … it will be inferred the incitement to build on a very extended scale is manifest; and as this beautiful little town is hourly increasing in public favour, there is no good reason why and at a not very distant period, it should not be extended over the whole of the splendid domain … At this moment there is absolutely a contest for the first preference when a house shall become vacant, while the noble pile of building constituting the Bath Hotel is full to overflowing …

Globe, Monday 12th July, 1841, p. 1.

To be sold by private contract, this important estate, consisting of about 1,500 acres of land and valuable clay and brick earth, a mansion more than half finished, six first-rate villas and other buildings. Two of the Villas are nearly completed, the other four not quite so forward. The estate can be sold in one lot, or the villas in one, two, or three lots, and the other part of the estate in one or more lots …

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, Thursday 30th September, 1841, p. 1.

Clippings (4): St Peter’s Church

It is with great gratification that we are now enabled to announce that a want which has been much felt in this unparalleled little watering place, and which, indeed, was almost all that it required to render it perfect, is about to be immediately supplied, in the erection of a church, in which the visitors may assemble for the performance of that first of duties, the worship of God. This duty has hitherto been performed in a small building set apart for the purpose; but by the munificence Sir G. Tapps Jervis, Bart., an extensive owner of property here, an appropriate church is about to be erected at his sole expense, and of which the first stone was laid on Tuesday last (Sept 28) …

Dorset County Chronicle, Thursday 30th September, 1841, p. 4.

Clippings (4): Madame Anfossi

Italian Singing. Madame Anfossi respectfully informs the nobility and gentry of Bournemouth, Christchurch, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Milford. and their vicinities, that she visits those parts twice a week, and purposes to continue her visits for two or three months longer …

Hampshire Advertiser, Saturday 13th November, 1841, p. 2.

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