HISTORY OF BOSCOMBE
©M E Smith 2007
Readers Images of Old Boscombe
send yours for inclusion to Boscombe@bigfoot.com
Sent in by Jean: "You might be interested in this picture of my grandfather's removal van (1905).
John Charles (Charlie) Nutt was well known in the area (he was a town councillor)
and his was the first removal company to have a motorised pantechnican (as I understand it!)"
The advert on the left is from 1915 Kellys directory
Jean has also sent a recent photo of stained glass windows which are behind
the altar of
St. George's Methodist Church, Haviland Road, Boscombe.
The left and right windows are dedicated to the two sons her grandfather above lost -
strangely both due to blood poisoning. The inscriptions reads thus:
LEFT: To the Glory of God and in tender and loving memory of Leopold Charles Nutt,
who died in Mudeford, Hants, 18th September, 1909, aged 8 years.
This is window is dedicated by his parents Mr & Mrs J. C. Nutt.
St. George's Methodist Church, Haviland Road, Boscombe.
The left and right windows are dedicated to the two sons her grandfather above lost -
strangely both due to blood poisoning. The inscriptions reads thus:
LEFT: To the Glory of God and in tender and loving memory of Leopold Charles Nutt,
who died in Mudeford, Hants, 18th September, 1909, aged 8 years.
This is window is dedicated by his parents Mr & Mrs J. C. Nutt.
RIGHT: To the Glory of GOD, in proud and every grateful memory of
Edwin John Nutt,
who died at Adelaide, Australia, 18th March, 1923 aged 17 years.
This window is dedicated by his parents Mr & Mrs J. C. Nutt.
Sent in by Amanda: "Here is a picture of the Portman
Hotel on Ashley Road, Boscombe, taken about the turn of the century.
The man in the old picture is the publican Henry Thomas Franklin, my great-grandfather."
The man in the old picture is the publican Henry Thomas Franklin, my great-grandfather."
William sent be these photos of an old jigsaw
puzzle of a fire engine he had purchaed.
It was made by G.J.HAYTER &
CO.LTD.,Boscombe,Bournmouth he wondered if you I had any information on this
Company.
A bit of searching through old telephone books and 'Google' I came up with the following:
1940 Telephone book: Hayter G.J. & Co.,
Indoor Games, 31 Palmerston Road, Boscombe Tel: Boscombe 1819
Hayter
made jigsaw puzzles in Boscombe from 1920s-1970 when Spear & Sons bought out
the firm. They issued many series of puzzles, the most common being: Popular
and Topical series (strip cut), Artistic (strip
cut with simple figure pieces), and Super-Cut (random cut with simple figure
pieces and irregular edges). In all these series, they used the word
"Victory" as part of the series name and thus
many people today refer to them as "Victory" puzzles. After 1970, Spear
focused on producing Gold Box puzzles similar
to the Artistic series but more loosely cut and eventually dropped the word
"Artistic" and simply referred to them as Gold Box puzzles. (ref
www.oldpuzzles.com)