Onto the No.50 bus we jump, one of the “Purbeck Breezer” buses that takes the summer tourist across and around the Isle of Purbeck peninsula. Unfortunately, bad planning regarding where to join the bus in Bournemouth meant that I found myself at the back on the lower deck, not the best place to take snaps…

Bournemouth in Dorset. Actually it was in Hampshire up until local government reorganisation in 1974 dragged it into Dorset. Further messing around a couple of years ago merged it into a unitary council with Christchurch and Poole (the BCP council). We’ve had a look at B, time for a peek at P and a call…

Well, if we’d been here when it was just heathland, we might have had more to write about. Stretching along the coastal cliffline between the ancient harbours at Poole and Christchurch, jutted above nine miles of pristine sand, there was – nothing. Just a vast bracken heathland reminiscent of the New Forest a few miles…