Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset - Promenade - real photo postcard c.1940s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Th Promenade, Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset - real photo type
• Publisher:  Dearden & Wade 'Sunny South' series
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 2d. orange
• Postmark(s):  Bournemouth & Poole 17 Aug 1950 wavy line
• Sent to:  Royds Parm, Gomersal Lale, Gomersal, near Leeds
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Canford Cliffs is an affluent suburb of Poole in Dorset, England. The neighbourhood lies on the English Channel coast midway between Poole and Bournemouth. To the southwest is Sandbanks which has some of the highest property values in the world, and together Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks form a parish, which has the fourth highest property prices in the world and second highest in the United Kingdom after London.^[1]

Originally part of the estate of Lord Wimborne, development began in the 1880s.^[2] The land around Haven Road was divided into plots and buildings designed individually. To prevent erosion of the cliffs, which caused annual falls, a sea wall and promenade was constructed in the 1930s. The area was originally designed to be residential, with a church and village hall but few commercial buildings. The Canford Cliffs Society still works to preserve these goals, and there are few

Canford Cliffs is located along the eastern edge of Poole Harbour. Canford Cliffs is south of Parkstone and north of Sandbanks. Canford Cliffs is built around a small hill, with a maximum elevation of 30 metres above sea level.^[3] Canford Cliffs Chine, running southeast towards Sandbanks, is sandy and flat and the

Canford Cliffs has a significant population of retired people; in the 2001 Census, 31.30% of the population was registered as retired,^[5] twice the national average, while 44.42% of the population was registered as being over 65, far greater than the national average of 15.89%.^[5]

The area is also far more affluent than typical: the area has a type 1 ACORN classification (affluent mature professionals, large houses), putting it in the top 1.7% of the population.^[6] 62.55% of homes are owned outright,^[5] while the national average is 21.19%,^[5] and less than 0.6% of the population lives in council housing, only one-twentieth of the national average, 13.21%.^[5] 73.26% of the population is in the ABC1 social grade when the national average is 51.91%.^[5] 81.66% of households have no dependent children against a national average of 56.58%.^[5]

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=dorset

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=posted