Commercial Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, 1956
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Commercial Road in Bournemouth in 1956, looking along a busy shopping street beneath the overhead wires of the town’s trolleybus system. A yellow double-decker trolleybus is travelling through the centre of the scene, with pedestrians on both pavements and several 1950s cars parked or moving along the road. The Direct Raincoat Co. dominates the left-hand corner, with large “Raincoat Specialists” lettering painted high on the building, while other visible signs include Oliver’s further down the street, a vertical “Restaurant” sign on the right, and part of a Timpson shopfront at the far right edge. The photograph captures Bournemouth as a working town centre as well as a seaside resort, with shop awnings, traffic, trolley wires and period retail signs giving the street a strong mid-century character.
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