Tag: migration

Tales from the Front (34)
1915, Tales from the Front

Tales from the Front (34)

Tales from the Front (34) tells the story of Henry Targett, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Private Targett served with the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. He survived the landing at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, but not the battle fought at Krithia, three days later. His story shows how a family’s fortunes shifted across two centuries of rural decline, industrial opportunity, and wartime sacrifice.

Victorian Bournemouth (139)
3rd Period

Victorian Bournemouth (138): Springbourne (2)

Kinship support groups Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (138) explores active kinship groups as a possible reason for Springbourne’s rapid population growth in the 1870s. Victorian Bournemouth (138): background Decline in rural population Despite lying in Hampshire, Bournemouth attracted many migrants from Dorset towns and villages. At least three adult natives of almost forty Dorset towns and […]