Shelley Manor - Making Space for Artists?

This is Shelley Manor also known as Boscombe Manor. The place is famous for romantic poets Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The last owners were the Bournemouth art institute but it's been empty for years. As part of 'regeneration' of the area we wanted to re-open it for community and art use and create a cultural centre. The local council even paid for an initiative called Making Space for Artists but they had no intention of letting us use the building. Instead somebody took our plans and used them to create artist studios elsewhere.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• shelley
• romantic
• manor
• art
• studio
• boscombe
• bournemouth
• dorset

[Joimson]

Demolition and construction has started on luxury apartments, a doctors surgery and performance café. The so called 'Friends of Shelley Manor' (a concerned residents group) are a bit of a boring bunch. Art and culture in Boscombe will never be safe in their hands. Bournemouth town centre is going ahead and getting it's all purpose 'Artmax' (formerly known as the Winter Gardens).  On the plus side Boscombe beach is getting an artificial surf reef later this year.

[lynnedjones]

cool...so what are they up to with that place?? are you still fighting for4 the right 4a bit o space?? give em hell

x

[shelleyrocks]

Interesting. Anything having to do with Shelley is very cool. It's awesome when people when restore old building, not to mention...ahhh, Shelley! : )