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Broughton Avenue, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 6JA

This photo was taken in December 2005 and looks out onto Romney Road from the Aberdare Road end. On the other end is Saxonhurst Road. The houses are predominantly detached with a smattering of semi-detached. Most of them were built in the 1930s. Prior to the housing development the area used to be the grounds of the Ensbury Race Course.

This postbox, being in Saxonhurst Road which has road and pavement separated by small hedges, has its own little access path.

Alphabetically the first of the 451 roads within 2km of my home, Aberdare Road is in the relatively well-to-do Northbourne area and consists of bungalows. We look across its one midway junction, with Romney Road to the left and Romney Close to the right. The sign is of a design that became prevalent in Bournemouth around 1990 and was in use for most of that decade. Many are starting to look a bit shabby now but this one is still in pretty good nick. This is photo no.1 of a series of 451 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.

A fairly main road, flanked by pollarded trees and relatively upmarket houses. Being a bus route, parking on both sides sometimes causes delays as traffic has to let each other pass, but in the last week or two double yellow lines have been painted on the far side.

Peering around the corner from Saxonhurst Road into this short, one-segment road with desirable detached houses typical of this part of Northbourne. Like many roads, this junction has a broadened triangular shape at each corner. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. This is photo no.105 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.

A tree on the junction of Headswell Avenue and Deanscroft Road.

Looking along a line of bungalows on the east side of Brockley Road, that typify this whole Northbourne area. The sign is a very recent one, erected since 2017/18 when the council started using plain nameplates, without BOURNEMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL in smaller type across the top. This is photo no.52 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.

Rows of housing along either side of the road.

Situated on what was once the airfield at RAF Winton and later Ensbury Park racecourse.