C&A The name C&A stands for Clemens and August, the Brenninkmeyer brothers from the Netherlands who started the firm and brought it to Britain in 1922. The Bournemouth branch of C&A closed its doors for the last time on January 27, 2001 – more than 25 years after originally opening on August 14, 1975.
Cadena Café Cadena Cafés Limited had a chain of coffeehouses in South West England, including one at 71-73 Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth. Established in 1895 under the name Lloyd s Oriental Café, it was soon renamed Lloyd s Cadena Cafés Ltd. They became Cadena Cafés Ltd in 1907 and took over Paignton-based Dellers Cafés in 1933.
The building is currently on a “flexible licence” to SDI (Propco 73), trading as House of Fraser. Directors of SDI (Propco 73) include Mike Ashley, the Sports Direct boss who bought House of Fraser’s assets when the department store chain went into administration in August 2018. “The property is let on flexible terms offering the purchaser an exciting opportunity to reposition the property for a variety of uses including residential, student accommodation, hotel, retail and leisure uses, subject to planning,” the agents say. Bournemouth’s House of Fraser faced closure in 2018, when previous owners put the branch on a list of 31 to be axed in a bid to save the business. But the plan changed after the company went into administration and was bought by Mr Ashley.