Lower High Street and Shops Ref: VS2185

Lower High Street and Shops

Swanage lower High Street in the early 1900s. Shops and restaurants in this photo include:

Burts Restaurant and Stores
The Queens Restaurant and Bazaar
Swanage Coombe Farm Dairies – Farm Produce and Supply Stores
Purbeck Hotel selling Romsey Ale

There are several horses and carts in the road and a small group of sailors outside the Purbeck Hotel.

Station activity on a summer day in 1963 Durlston Bay in the Spring