Hume Towers, 27 Branksome Wood Road, Bournemouth, Dorset a gallery curated by Alwyn Ladell Built in 1871 for Sir Joshua Walmsley to a design by Christopher Crabb Creeke. Unfortunately Sir Joshua died on 17 November that year (aged 77) and his widow, Lady Madeline, died two years later. The house changed hands several times including, in 1899, to the Hon William Earnshaw Cooper. When he died in 1924 it became a psychiatric nursing home until the Barnwood House Trust (which ran it for the last decade) sold it for redevelopment in 1966 (when it was demolished). The destruction of such a stately home typifies the short-sighted and ill-informed planning decisions that Bournemouth such a grave disservice after the 1950s, squandering a beautiful legacy and betraying the generations to come.