Broadstone, The Broadway c.1960
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B735023
More about this scene
Broadstone is named after Broadstone Farm, which in turn took its name from broad stones spanning a stream. One is outside the Stepping Stones pub. The main road, which includes The Broadway, which we see here, was built in 1765. Baxter's is now Bath Travel. The railway bridge is at the far end. The now-closed railway arrived in 1847, but since there were few houses, a station was not built until 1872. There were just five villas here in 1888 when Lord Wimborne built the school. An early resident was the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, who lived at the now demolished Old Orchard in Wallace Road from 1889 until his death in 1913.
An extract from Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories.
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