Bournemouth Coast Path - by Leigh Hatts
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Updates from @Leigh_Hatts, author of Exploring The Bournemouth Coast Path published by Countryside Books
On 9 May 2026 an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled at 303 Woodstock Road, Oxford to Lucy Faithfull (Baroness Faithfull of Wolvercote), known as "Mother to hundreds" when she served as children's officer and then Director of Social Services in Oxford oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/faithf…
I dropped into St Nicholas Church in Studland yesterday to say a prayer, enjoy the atmosphere, and honour the memory of T F Powys. An elderly gentleman from Bournemouth joined me. A kind soul , bemused by a changing world, and with no trace of grievance at strangers.🙏
✨Visit the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum for free this weekend✨
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, was born #onthisday in 1749. She was an ancestor of HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. Mary is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, wearing, it is said, a superb bridal dress.
On this day in 1924 Margaret Bondfield became the first ever woman minister in a UK government, as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Labour
