Bournemouth Snapshots – Complete Set of 8 Real Photo Views (c.1930s–1940s)

Description

Bournemouth Snapshots – Complete Set of 8 Real Photo Views (c.1930s–1940s)

🏷 Publisher: Uncredited / Souvenir issue
📸 Type: Real Photographs (Snapshot Album)
🗂 Series: “8 Real Photos” Souvenir Snapshots
🗺 Location: Bournemouth, Dorset
🖼 Views: 8 original photographic studies
📅 Era: c. late 1930s–early 1940s
📘 Format: Original card-bound snapshot album
✍ Captions: Original printed captions within album
✍ Additional detail: Handwritten title on reverse (“The Square, Bournemouth”)

Description:

A charming original Bournemouth souvenir snapshot album containing eight real photographic prints, capturing the town during its classic pre- and immediate post-war seaside years.

These are genuine photographs, not printed postcards, mounted in the original numbered album and intended to be kept together as a complete visual tour of Bournemouth. The images balance busy town life with carefully landscaped gardens and sweeping coastal views, showing Bournemouth at its most elegant and relaxed.

The album format gives this set a strong narrative flow — from civic spaces and gardens through to the pier, beaches, and cliffside views. It feels like a personal keepsake rather than a mass-produced postcard bundle.

A clean, cohesive set with strong local appeal, ideal for Bournemouth collectors, Dorset nostalgia, or display.

Included Views (as captioned)

• The Square, Bournemouth
• Bournemouth Pier
• The Pavilion & New Baths
• Chine Beach (Looking East)
• Central Gardens
• Upper Gardens
• Cascades, Bournemouth Gardens
• New Rock Garden

Condition:

Excellent vintage condition throughout. All eight photographs are present, clean, and well contrasted with light age-related wear only. Album cover intact with minor handling marks consistent with age. No tears, no missing images, nothing that detracts from display or collectability.