Day: October 21, 2022

With expected fanfare, Beales department store was set to end its 139 year tenure in Bournemouth’s town centre in April 2020. However, the Covid-19 pandemic intervened. The institution was instead quietly shuttered by a nationwide lockdown in March. While Poole still boasts a Beales store, the organisation founded by James Elmes Beale had ceased to… Read more A Local Institution Quietly Closes