East Howe: Hadow Road

Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 14 Apr 2020

The sign for Hadow Road looks as if it will soon be Shadow Road, thanks to the ever lengthening shadows of the houses on Kinson Road, behind us, late on this fine spring evening. Both corner houses here have a triangle cut out of their front gardens, to give those wide semicircles of pavement on the corners. The positioning of the sign gives us limited view both of the sign and along the road – but we can glimpse the first house, which I think may originally have been the caretaker's house for one of the schools. Hadow Road leads to The Bourne Academy (formerly Kings High School, originally Kingsleigh Secondary) and Kingsleigh Primary School, which face each other a short distance down, before the road becomes a footpath now known as Learning Lane. There are a handful of council houses along here, too. The sign is an early version of a standard Bournemouth design from around 2000, the early version recognisable by a slightly more emboldened typeface, aligned to the left when on two lines or, never on the newer versions, written on a single line as here. This is photo no.178 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

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