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Opinion: Welcome to Bournemouth – eventually

Photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/artimagesmarkcummins/ Bournemouth Summers Eve'At last our party will have a proper seaside conference again in 2015. Bournemouth is the ideal spot for it.

The town has a remarkable story; from almost nil population in the present town centre area in 1810 it has grown to 180,000 today. It first developed as a place where the wealthy came to spend the winter.

Some would say that the rot set in with the arrival of the railway in 1870.

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