Bournemouth: 1810-1910, the history of a modern health and pleasure resort . rand dresser, of Christchurch, attends at Bournemouthevery Tuesday and Friday, and that orders for his servicesmight be left at the Post Office or at the Tregonwell birth and death within the district had to be registeredat Christchurch, and not till late in the last quarter of thecentury could any marriage be celebrated in a Nonconformistplace of worship, without one or other, or both, the partiesmaking pilgrimage to the mother town. Any villager so poor as to need assistance from the rates had to applyto
Bournemouth: 1810-1910, the history of a modern health and pleasure resort . rand dresser, of Christchurch, attends at Bournemouthevery Tuesday and Friday, and that orders for his servicesmight be left at the Post Office or at the Tregonwell birth and death within the district had to be registeredat Christchurch, and not till late in the last quarter of thecentury could any marriage be celebrated in a Nonconformistplace of worship, without one or other, or both, the partiesmaking pilgrimage to the mother town. Any villager so poor as to need assistance from the rates had to applyto a Relieving Officer who lived at Christchurch, and, perhaps,go before the Board of Guardians sitting within the shadowof the grand old Priory. If the parish doctor was requiredhe had to be sent for from his residence in the same place,where also dwelt the public vaccinator and the coroner (orone of his deputies). Thither the Bournemouthians had toproceed for all County Court, licensing, or police business,for all registration work, and to record a vote in any Parlia- f: %. BOURNEMOUTH: 1810-1910. 105 mentary election. In Bournemouth itself there was no placeof temporary detention for offenders against public order ormorality, no place of rest for any Weary Willies takinga summer tour through the county, and only the mostmicroscopic search revealed the presence of a policeman. The first important change came with the passing of theImprovement Act of 1856, when Bournemouth entered upona new phase of history. It is from this period, indeed, thatwe must date its career as a town. Prior to that time ithad been a watering place and health resort—picturesque,salubrious, and of increasing attraction—but it had no civicorganisation of even the most elementary character : nomachinery for co-operative effort in the material interests ofthe community. But as landowner after landowner beganto put land upon the market and develop his estates, ashouse after house was built, and the popula
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