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Bournemouth Leasing

Did You Know?

Actress Amanda Holden once rode around Bournemouth naked on a motorbike after being dared £20 by friends. After whizzing round the block she shouted ‘say no to crack’ at a security guard.

After Liverpool and London, Bournemouth is the UK town where the Beatles played the most concerts and their cover for their second album With the Beatles was a photograph taken at the Palace Court hotel in 1963.

The fateful day in Bournemouth was July 12, 1910 which saw the aviation pioneer Charles Rolls, having crossed the channel by balloon in 1906, die in a horrific crash.  Rolls made more than 200 flights in his Wright Flyer, made under license by Short Bros.

Literary masters JRR Tolkein and Enid Blyton lived here and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' at 'Skerryvore' the house he shared with his wife in Westbourne.

It was a moment that could have changed the course of world history. In 1892 a young 18-year-old Winston Churchill fell from a bridge in Bournemouth. After falling 29 feet he was unconcious for three days and his injuries left him bedridden for three months. 

Bournemouth is one of England's most popular south-coast towns. It's one of the UK's best seaside resorts, with sandy beaches, a traditional pier, and both traditional and contemporary things to see and do. For anyone who's visiting London already, Bournemouth is just over two hours away by train.

"La Bournemowthe", however, was purely a geographic reference to the uninhabited area around the mouth of the small river which, in turn, drained the heathland between the towns of Poole and Christchurch. The word bourne, meaning a small stream, is a derivative of burna, old English for a brook.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was most famous for her 1818 novel, Frankenstein, and was married to the romantic poet Percy Shelley. Though Mary Shelley never lived in Bournemouth, her son was very fond of the town because of its warmer climates. She has since become the inspiration for the name of one of Bournemouth's Wetherspoon’s pubs, aptly called The Mary Shelley, located just next to St Peter’s church.

Bournemouth has two very fine piers. The Boscombe Pier was built in 1889 and renovated in 2009. It is 230 metres long and is a Grade II-listed site. It is also an award-winning pier. In 2009 the public declared it Britain’s Coolest Pier and the following year the National Piers Society declared it Pier of the Year.