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111 Places in Poole That You Shouldn't Miss [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius: 205x135 mm, kaal: 474 g, 111 Illustrations, color
  • Sari: 111 Places
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Nov-2019
  • Kirjastus: Emons Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3740805986
  • ISBN-13: 9783740805982
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius: 205x135 mm, kaal: 474 g, 111 Illustrations, color
  • Sari: 111 Places
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Nov-2019
  • Kirjastus: Emons Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3740805986
  • ISBN-13: 9783740805982
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • The ultimate insider's guide to Poole
  • Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
  • Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 250 titles and 1.5 million copies in print worldwide
  • Appeals to both the local market (more than 151,000 people call Poole home) and the tourist market (more than 10 million people visit Poole every year!)
  • Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs

Poole: home to one of the largest natural harbours in the world, award-winning sandy beaches, tons of pottery and Ryvita crispbreads. Well, yes – but what else? Loads, as it happens. Poole and its surrounding areas are fit to burst with places to explore, uncover and enjoy. Whether you're a visitor or a local and want to discover Poole's role in saving Labradors from extinction, where writer H.G. Wells' ashes are scattered, a ghost village that hasn't been inhabited since World War II, a structure built by one of James Bond's relatives, the home of a prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper case, the location for one of Coldplay's music videos, the best place to buy Sherbet Pips, or a very punctual miniature soldier, this guide will point them out, whisper some fun facts and little-known local knowledge in your ear and hopefully leave you raising your eyebrows and saying, 'Well, I never…'

111 Places
1 A. R. Wallace's Grave
The evolution of one-upmanship
10(2)
2 Aquatic Jetpacks
To infinity and beyond!
12(2)
3 Assyrian Frieze
Candy cash
14(2)
4 Aunt Mimi's Plot
A legend's house reimagined
16(2)
5 Barford Ice Cream
Get the scoop
18(2)
6 Benjamin Jesty's Grave
A bovine breakthrough
20(2)
7 Bermuda Triangle Bar
Beware you don't get lost
22(2)
8 Blandford Fashion Museum
Would you like dyes with that?
24(2)
9 Branksome Viaducts
An arch enemy struck
26(2)
10 Briantspuddle Dairy
Milking it
28(2)
11 Broad Stones
What live streaming used to look like
30(2)
12 Broadstone Tapestry
A stitch in time
32(2)
13 Chain Ferry Cross
A uniqueferry crossing
34(2)
14 Chococo
Cocoa bean, cocoa gone
36(2)
15 Clavell Tower
Relocation, relocation, relocation
38(2)
16 Clouds Hill Sleeping Bag
Return of the sack
40(2)
17 Constitution Hill
I spy a stunning view
42(2)
18 The Courtyard Tea Rooms
How do you like your eggs? Haunted!
44(2)
19 The Crown Hotel
Who you gonna call?
46(2)
20 Deans Court Bridge
Sisters are doin it for themselves
48(2)
21 The Dorset Bookshop
Buy some time
50(2)
22 Durdle Door
Where rock meets, er, rock
52(2)
23 The Earthouse
Once upon a time
54(2)
24 English Oak Vineyard
Be transported to cloud wine
56(2)
25 Fame Ship Rudder
This man is wrecked
58(2)
26 Farehouse Trading Co
Feeling hot, hot, hot
60(2)
27 Fenners Field Oak Tree
Really branching out
62(2)
28 Forget Me Not Garden
Anything but garden variety
64(2)
29 The Forgiveness Window
If at first you don't succeed
66(2)
30 Fort Henry
A wartime relic standing strong
68(2)
31 The Grand Cinema
Lights Camera Bingo!
70(2)
32 Grange Arch
From Dorset with love
72(2)
33 The Great Globe
See the world
74(2)
34 Guildhall Bullet Mark
Gunningfor respect
76(2)
35 Gulliver's Farm & Shop
The local rogue who was dying to escape
78(2)
36 Hall & Woodhouse Brewery
Badger Beer: the beastfrom the yeast
80(2)
37 Halsewell Mirror
Reflecting on a tragic shipwreck
82(2)
38 Hinton Martell Fountain
His tray runneth over
84(2)
39 Hotel du Vin Fireplace
Something fishy is going on
86(2)
40 J. R. R.Tolkien's Plot
He liked it, so he put a ring on it
88(2)
41 Jerk Shak
Spice is the variety of life
90(2)
42 Kent Road
Didn't she do well!
92(2)
43 Keyneston Mill
Making scents of botanicals
94(2)
44 Kingston Lacy Snowdrops
Take time to stop and upskirt theflowers
96(2)
45 Knoll House Hotel
Five go mad in Dorset
98(2)
46 Komainu at Compton Acres
Every end is a new beginning
100(2)
47 Lady Wimborne Bridge
She loved structure
102(2)
48 Lady Wimborne Cottages
Charity begins at home
104(2)
49 Leatherbound Lion
The mane attraction
106(2)
50 Longham Lakes
The back-up plan
108(2)
51 Lush Cosmetics' First Shop
So much more than bath bombs
110(2)
52 Marconi Lounge
Radio times
112(2)
53 Mathmos Lava Lamp Shop
Are you ready to get groovy?
114(2)
54 Mayim UK Mermaid Academy
A shore thing
116(2)
55 Memory and the Tideline
Defending one's art
118(2)
56 Minnie Baldock's Plot
She gets my vote
120(2)
57 Nina Camplin Dog Mural
How much is that doggie in the window?
122(2)
58 No. 67 High Street
Head(s) this way
124(2)
59 Oakdale Library Gardens
A secret garden with weighty tomes
126(2)
60 Old Harry Rocks
A novel place to end up
128(2)
61 Operation Overlord Plaque
D-Day departures remembered
130(2)
62 Packe Family Mausoleum
Where Winston Churchill was thefall guy
132(2)
63 Paradox Comics
Holy comic book shop, Batman!
134(2)
64 Parkstone Water Tower Gunning for redevelopment
136(2)
65 Pergins Island Decamping to the bay
138(2)
66 Poole Flying Boats Plaque Afleeting fleet
140(2)
67 Poole Park Pillars
The eagle eyes are always watching
142(2)
68 Poole Pottery Tile Panel
Spend a day on the tiles
144(2)
69 Pottery Pier
Smashed it
146(2)
70 The Powder House
A building that is bang out of order
148(2)
71 Pterosaur Skull Fossil
A head for politics
150(2)
72 Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum
Make clay while the sun shines
152(2)
73 The Quarter Jack About time
154(2)
74 RNLI Training Pool
In at the deep end
156(2)
75 Radar Memorial
Notflying in under the radar
158(2)
76 River Piddle
Flowing through the silver screen
160(2)
77 Sandbanks Carved Rocks Making a fist of things
162(2)
78 Sculpture by the Lakes
Namaste: now Fm gonna stay
164(2)
79 Shillingstone Station
Fit for a king and a puppet
166(2)
80 Shitterton
A most excrement adventure
168(2)
81 Hie Silent Woman Inn
A speakeasy this ain't
170(2)
82 Sir Peter Thompson House
Carry on nurse
172(2)
83 Skerryvore
Where a literary genius blew raspberries
174(2)
84 Slop Bog
Aphizz-whizzer of a nature reserve
176(2)
85 SoundCellar
All that jazz
178(2)
86 Square 6c Compass
A pub you can really dig
180(2)
87 St Aldhelm's Chapel
You wish
182(2)
88 St James' Weathervane
A catch in the wind
184(2)
89 The Stable
When Poole went to the dogs
186(2)
90 Studland Bay
Are the seahorses riding towards extinction?
188(2)
91 Sunseeker International
Splashing the cash
190(2)
92 Swanage Old Gaol
From one slammer to the next
192(2)
93 Swanage Pier
Take a walk on the mild side
194(2)
94 Thomas Kirk Wright Boat
A real lifesaver
196(2)
95 Totem Poles at Holton Lee
Makingfaces
198(2)
96 Thunderbird House
An extravagant abode with cult status
200(2)
97 Truly Scrumptious
Gimme some sugar
202(2)
98 Tyneham Ghost Village
The place that time forgot
204(2)
99 `Uncle Albert's' Grave
Laughing all the way from the bank
206(2)
100 W. E. Boone and Co Ltd
Sells everything but bubblesfor spirit levels
208(2)
101 Wareham Bears
Grizzlies playing dress-up
210(2)
102 Wareham Market Statue
History set in stone
212(2)
103 Wareham Town Pound
History on the hoof
214(2)
104 Washington Coat of Arms
Where America earned its (stars and) stripes
216(2)
105 Wellington Clock Tower
One man's trash is another man's treasure
218(2)
106 Westfield House
Bloody hell
220(2)
107 White Mill Bridge
A sign of conviction
222(2)
108 Wildlife Tiles
In their nature
224(2)
109 Wimborne Chained Library
A bibliophile's paradise
226(2)
110 Wimborne Model Town
Honey, I shrunk the town
228(2)
111 Winspit Quarry
Exterminate any feelings of blah
230
Katherine Bebo is a professional freelance writer and editor. Her career has taken her to London, Dubai and Denver in the USA - but now she's back home where her heart is: Poole. She has had a handful of books published - on topics ranging from films to fitness, cocktails to outer space - plus many features for well-known publications and websites such as Cosmopolitan, Real Travel and TheCulinaryGuide.co.uk.