Victorian Bournemouth (190) follows press accounts of annual Baron of Beef Banquets enjoyed by local tradesmen in the 1880s.
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Victorian Bournemouth (62): drain wars (1)
Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (62) outlines the chronology of a controversy that ran through the resort’s early years. Early complaints about the unhygienic condition of the drains had stimulated Bournemouth’s Improvement Act (1856). Nevertheless, medical concern about the drains continued. A group of doctors waged a bitter, public, and personal war against the Improvement Commissioners. They […]