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The Boscombe Devil is a gargoyle located facing the Boscombe grand theatre now the O2 Academy ( see above ), believed to have been placed there to show disapproval at the entertainments on offer.
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The nearest Met Office weather station to Salisbury is Boscombe Down, about 6 miles to the north of the city centre.
The ATE SP is located close to other military facilities including the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down ( much of whose work is secret ), Boscombe Down airfield and Middle Wallop Army Air Corps Base, where pilots train on the Westland Apache.
Boscombe () is a suburb of Bournemouth.
The area upon which Boscombe is situated, between the somewhat older village of Pokesdown and Bournemouth Square was part of the great heathland which covered much of western Hampshire, and extended well into eastern Dorset, from Norman times it was within the Liberty of Westover.
Reference to Boscombe is included in Christopher Saxton's 1574 survey made of possible enemy landing places on the coast of Hampshire ; this mentions ... referring to the manufacture of copperas or ferrous sulphate which took place in the district, particularly in the last quarter of the 16th century.
By the beginning of the 1860s Boscombe consisted of the Shelley estate and some cottages, one of which is known to have stood at the top of Boscombe Hill, near the present Drummond Road.
As well as these flats there have been a number of other large developments of ultra-modern flats such as " The Reef " in Boscombe Spa Road and the renovation of Shelley Park into a medical centre and flats development, it is hoped to fully restore the Grade II listed theatre in the future.
The nickname Bos Vegas has gained popularity in recent years, it occurs with slight spelling variation in the names of two Boscombe businesses and is in common usage on many web forums.
Boscombe is also home to AFC Bournemouth who play at Dean Court.
" The Boscombe Valley Mystery ", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes describes to Watson en route to the murder: " Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Herefordshire.
In the 1991 TV adaption starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke, Boscombe Valley is in Cheshire in the northwest of England.
To the northwest lies the MoD Boscombe Down test range facility which is operated by QinetiQ.
Within Bournemouth, it has been diverted around the Sovereign Centre of Boscombe along Centenary Way ; much of the former road is pedestrianised.
Also based at Coningsby is the RAF's Fast Jet and Weapons Operational Evaluation Unit ( FJWOEU ), a merger of the Strike / Attack OEU ( previously at Boscombe Down ), the Tornado F. 3 OEU ( previously at RAF Waddington ) and the Air-Guided Weapons OEU ( previously at RAF Valley ).
The world's oldest test pilot school is what is now called the Empire Test Pilots ' School ( motto " Learn to Test-Test to Learn "), at RAF Boscombe Down in the UK.
The first genuine appearance of Bournemouth town centre and the nearby suburb of Boscombe is in the 1992 Christmas special.
The Boscombe Bowmen is the name given by archaeologists to a group of early Bronze Age individuals found in a shared burial at Boscombe Down near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
" The Boscombe Valley Mystery " is solved partly because, unlike everyone else, Holmes recognizes the call is commonly used among Australians.
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By this time the Group had shrunk to ten squadrons, all equipped with Fairey Battle aircraft and located in pairs at Abingdon, RAF Harwell, RAF Benson, Boscombe Down and Bicester.
From 1996 until May 2008 Clarke was located at Boscombe Down lecturing Aircraft Structures, Systems and Theory of Flight at FES Training Centre.
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The house at Boscombe was extensively rebuilt for Sir Percy, and also extended to include a 200 seat ( later 300 seats ) theatre, to the designs of Christopher Crabb Creeke, who later became surveyor to the Bournemouth Improvement Commissioners and was responsible for both the layout of much of central Bournemouth's roads, and for several local buildings.
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The commercial centre of Boscombe had a major boost with projects by Archibald Beckett including blocks of shops, the Salisbury Hotel, the Royal Arcade, and a Grand Theatre, which was to become Boscombe Hippodrome, then the Royal Ballrooms and today the O2 Academy.
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In 1889 Boscombe Pier opened ( see below ).
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Boscombe saw an increase in social problems during this period with drug and alcohol dependency levels well above the national average.
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Bond's coaching career began when he joined the staff at Gillingham ( having been turned down on applying for the manager's job at Torquay United ), and in May 1970 he replaced Freddie Cox as manager of Bournemouth, who were then known by their original ( and still official ) name of Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic.
It was originally named Boscombe, which was altered on 1 October 1891 to Pokesdown ( Boscombe ), since the station was closer to Pokesdown than Boscombe.
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At the Boscombe Down junction of the A303 a new mixed business development known as Solstice Park has been built and plans have been submitted for a Regional Distribution Centre for a major retailer.
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This ambitious phase has been radiocarbon dated to between 2600 and 2400 BC, slightly earlier than the Stonehenge Archer, discovered in the outer ditch of the monument in 1978, and the two sets of burials, known as the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen, discovered to the west.
By the turn of the century the remainder of the Shelley estate had been sold, Boscombe Chine gardens had been laid out and there was little remaining vacant land within Boscombe.
Charles has been found dead near Boscombe Pool.
Recently the archaeological find of the Boscombe Bowmen has been cited in support of the human transport theory, while new glacier modelling supports the erratic theory.
The man in charge was Joe Millar who arrived from Bournemouth and Boscombe and had previously been capped for Ireland, Millar used many of his contacts in Scotland to bring an influx of Scottish players to the Showgrounds.
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The census of 1871 showed that there was a population of 212 people in 19 houses in the Boscombe Estate, and a further 70 people in 9 houses at Boscombe Spa.
In 1875 a 160, 000 gallon water tower was built in Palmerston Road, at this time it was stated that there were 244 houses in Boscombe.
Post war there was a boom in the seaside holiday market and Boscombe with its large number of smaller guest houses enjoyed this period of prosperity.
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A crash at RAF Boscombe Down on 26 September 1994 appeared closely linked to " black " missions, according to a report in AirForces Monthly.
Originally the town developed around the water meadows next to several bends in the river, but in time has spread onto the valley hillsides and absorbed part of the military airfield at Boscombe Down.
Other finds in the parish point to large scale prehistoric structures and settlements in the whole area, including the numerous monuments around Stonehenge, the discovery of a Neolithic village in the neighbouring parish of Durrington by the Stonehenge Riverside Project, and continuing excavations at Boscombe Down where Wessex Archaeology found the Amesbury Archer and Boscombe Bowmen.
With the establishment of the military Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down in 1939, Amesbury began to expand.
In June 1992, Husband was assigned to the Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment at Boscombe Down, England, as an exchange test pilot with the Royal Air Force.
Test pilot Roland Beamont finally made the first flight from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment ( A & AEE ) at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, on 27 September 1964.
Count Lippe was dispatched to Shrublands to oversee Giuseppe Petacchi of the Italian Air Force, at the Boscombe Down Airfield, a bomber squadron base.
Two Chipmunk aircraft were evaluated by the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment ( A & AEE ) at RAF Boscombe Down.
From 1945 to 1947 Żurakowski worked as a test pilot with " C " Squadron of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment ( A & AEE ) at RAF Boscombe Down, testing naval aircraft for the Air Ministry.
While still at Boscombe Down, Żurakowski also flew, among over 30 different types, the Vampire, the de Havilland Hornet, and the Gloster Meteor never letting pass, " an opportunity to give the staff a display that included single engine aerobatics.
Sir Percy and his wife liked the place, and decided to make it their home, dividing their time between Boscombe and their London house at Chelsea.
During the 1870s development of Boscombe was such that the population at the census of 1881 had grown to 1, 895-a more than sixfold increase.
On 1 April 2009, the Heavy Aircraft Test & Evaluation Squadron at Boscombe Down ( Air Warfare Centre ) gained the 206 Squadron numberplate, as 206 ( Reserve ) Squadron.
Currently split between RAF Boscombe Down and RAF Brize Norton ' B Flt ' C130 specialists moved from RAF Lyneham in June 2011 to their new home at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to continue the Hercules Test and Evaluation process.
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