Muscliff: Muscliffe Lane
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Muscliff: Muscliffe Lane
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 10 Apr 2020
Notwithstanding the labelling of the Ordnance Survey's maps, the suburb of Muscliff rightly does not have an 'e' on the end, although it did develop over the second half of the 20th century and it stuck in the name of Muscliffe Lane, which we see here from its start on the busy A3060 Castle Lane West. The bench faces a service road for a parade of shops on Castle Lane West. 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: Shorter names lead to a large gap on the right-hand side of the sign (Owls Road in Boscombe is the champion in this respect), so perhaps that is why the centred text evolved. This is photo no.287 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See Link for the complete set of photos.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.76046
Longitude
-1.869795