Tag: Oxford Road

Victorian Bournemouth (150)
3rd Period

Victorian Bournemouth (147): Oxford Road (2)

Middling street life Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (147) introduces a short series exploring Oxford Road’s physical and community growth 1871-1901. The articles cover its geographic positioning and the built environment; demographics of the street; its socio-anthropology. It finds a stable, middling community, living in perhaps some comfort, pitched between the working people of Springbourne and the […]

Victorian Bournemouth (95):
2nd Period

Victorian Bournemouth (95): Oxford Road Bio (1)

Melange of restless working people  Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (95) explores the biography of Oxford Road, first settled in the 1860s. By the 1871 census, however, over two hundred people lived on this road. Only a few would stay longer term. Victorian Bournemouth (95): orientation and occupations Orientation Oxford Road, or, sometimes Street, lay in the […]