Ford Dealerships in Bournemouth late 70s?

[cjhillman]

I was casually looking up Ford dealer stickers last night and realised my Capri (Reg starting XAA 1979) isn't from East Anglia like I thought but Bournemouth. I was looking at the new style prefix and the current number plates have a dealer address which is Williams of Great Yarmouth so, I naturally thought it was from over that way. Stop me if i'm wrong about this Bournemouth thing! 

I'm drawing a bit of a blank finding Ford Dealers/pictures that would be in Bournemouth around 1979. Any ideas how I could find or make an educated guess of where the car was sold? I'd like to get some window stickers for it etc if possible. 

I did find a facebook group called "F English Ford Bournemouth" but it looks like this garage shut around the mid 70s. 

Heres one i did find on flickr... Hendy Lennox Ford Dealership - 17a CHRISTCHURCH RD. BOURNEMOUTH. DORSET. FEBRUARY 1988. Not sure if this was the only local one though? 


Just found this now on google maps!

[consul315]

probably not the requested stuff, but maybe it points you in the reight direction. here is the dealers from 1964:

[consul315]

1973:

[consul315]

and 1987 (if you d need another year, i might have to do a search in my  "archive"):

[consul315]

october 1976:

[cjhillman]

Thanks for this its quite interesting!! Looks like the Hendy-Lennox one is probably the one I guess. Seems to have moved or have a second place as its a different address from the picture I found. The Palmerston Road area looks like it was redeveloped at some point so maybe it moved.

The F English Poole Road location is a Tesco (I think now) and I'm sure I read it was shut before 1979 so I'm thinking that might be unlikely. (on facebook it says mid 70s it shut down)

The Castle Lane West garage I found was also a Bristol Street Motors and various other dealerships. I guess this could have sold it but maybe it was more of an 80s dealership.

The Winton Garage location looks to be a small garage if its the same business that stands there now. I guess maybe a service centre.

[Implandy]

AA as a suffix is general to Hampshire so it could just as easy be a Southampton reg, as Bournemouth generally were , EL , RU, PR.

There were of course plenty of smaller Ford outlets, Wimborne, , Wareham, Wool , also closer to the border was Keith Motors in Christchurch.

[carledo]

I bought a MkII Zephyr in 1979 or 1980 IIRC. It belonged to a semi retired guy who had been a valeter at Englishes and the MOT (which turned out to be a bad joke) was done by them. It was a one owner car and had been sold new by English of Poole The reg was YGT 344. I scrapped YGT with more than 6 months MOT still on it, it was terminally rotten. I bought another MK II at the same time, a Zodiac, also a local Bournemouth car, that one was YEL 873. The operative local reg letters for the 2 being GT and EL, ring any bells?

Steve