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Mabey Avenue, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5DT

Mabey Avenue is a traditional little dead-end street off Kingswell Road, but continuing off the end, ahead, is a newly built infill named Carter Close. There has been much infill development within Bournemouth's suburbs in recent years, especially around here in Ensbury Park. Carter Close appears to be part of a larger development, with each segment accessible from a different road, so each bit appears to a minuscule site.

Carter Close is not so much a road in its own right, but more of a forecourt extending the dead end of Mabey Avenue. It is better appreciated from a wider view: Image It is one example of much infill development in many pockets of Ensbury Park. This one pocket includes Kings Close, which is accessed from Columbia Road, and there is apparently no access between the two. The sign is a modern one which seems to be council-made although it uses the Trebuchet typeface which the council ditched for its standard signs several years before the development was built. This is photo no.61 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.

There are quite a few dead ends off Kingswell Road, but Mabey Avenue is the only one which was built at the same time: all the others are developments from perhaps the 1970s up to the present day. The sign is a modern one, from 2010-15 when this more modern, abstract emblem rather than the traditional town coat of arms as the working logo of the council. The no-through-road sign incorporated into the nameplate is a common arrangement. This is photo no.252 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.

One of three offshoots of Kingswell Road that share its first name, Gardens and Grove being the other two. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side, with a (faded) no-through-road sign incorporated into it. This is photo no.225 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.

Modern infill development of which there are many examples in Ensbury Park. This particular part has been particularly densely infilled, with Kings Close backing onto Carter Close, Newmill Close and Orchard Close, all within the same section of original back gardens but none accessible from any of the others. The sign is akin to a council-supplied one but does not match the design of any Bournemouth ones, so it has probably been erected by the developer. This is photo no.224 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.

An early- or mid-1980s development off Kingswell Road, eating into the surrounding back gardens – an early forerunner of the much similar infill development that has occurred hereabouts in recent years. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. For cul-de-sacs, it is common for these to incorporate the no-through road sign, as here. This is photo no.67 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.

Situated at 137 Columbia Road.

This postbox stands outside the frontage of Image

Just off Columbia Road this path leads towards Archdale Close and Jubilee Gardens.

A bus training for what could possibly be the 5b route which passes through here.