EARDLEY BROOKE’S OFFICES AT 9 HIGH STREET DURING THE 1920’s

Mr Eardley Brooke established his business as a ‘House and Estate Agent’ in 1905. He took over 4 ‘Seaside Terrace’ in the lower High Street during 1913 from William Rickard, a local ironmonger. Mr Rickard had been trading here since this row of four shops had been built in 1908/09. The Estate Agency was later re-numbered as 9 High Street. After the death of Eardley Brooke in 1919 the business remained in his family for another sixty years until Harold Brooke’s retirement in 1983. During the 1920’s the firm were not only house and insurance agents, but auctioneers and surveyors, together with taking bookings for the Theatre Royal in Bournemouth and acting as local representatives for the Dorset Electric Light Company.

ROSE BROS – THE JEWELLERS AT 24 STATION ROAD IN 1981

Roger Wilcox and Peter Cook took over the business at 9 High Street in 1983 and moved to 24 Station Road in 1986, previously occupied by local jewellers Rose Brothers who originally had this shop built in 1924. Upon Roger Wilcox’s retirement in 2003 the business was taken over by Manordale Estates.