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Wimborne Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 7BT

Looking across the main Wimborne Road to this tyre service centre, at no.1469 Wimborne Road, which was established in 1966. There is no official boundary between Kinson and Northbourne, but Kinson is really a little bit west of here.

After coincidentally receiving nails in two tyres, my car is jacked up on the forecourt of Image and awaits roadworthiness. In the distance is Image

This car dealership is located on a site that was formerly a petrol station. It is close to the junction with Ashridge Avenue.

As the sign says in smaller print, actually in Northbourne. Doesn't seem to have a web presence, but according to the sign as well as services, there are groups for healing, women, wives, parents & toddlers, & guides.

Emergency gas main works began here on 11 April, for around three weeks according to the sign but, today, they are even overrunning the suggested 10 weeks written by some wag below the original figure. This is just one of numerous gas-related works that have required traffic lights or even road closures around Bournemouth in the last few months. The temporary traffic lights are a particular nuisance on this busy route because there is a signal-controlled junction in close proximity beyond.

Forlorn-looking closed post office in Northbourne, at the junction of Wimborne Road & Ashridge Avenue; closed 29th Oct 2008. For a list of closures in Dorset, see http://www.westbournemouthukip.com/docs/Dorset%20Post%20Office%20closures.pdf

Looking up this smart tree-lined roads from Wimborne Road. It forms a kind of three-pronged fork layout with neighbouring Ashridge Avenue and Pinecliffe Avenue, with Hogue Avenue joining the three of them at the top end. I'm therefore not sure why this one should be named Ferncroft Road rather than Ferncroft Avenue, but there it is. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. This is photo no.141 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.

This short public footpath from Wimborne Road arrives at the dead end of Vernalls Close, with Vernalls Gardens off to the right. See Image for the view up the path from ahead, and Image for the other end of the path, behind us.

A late evening view along the dead end of Vernalls Close, with Vernalls Gardens to the left. This left-hand pavement continues as a public footpath to Wimborne Road. See Image for the view onto the road from the path.

The footpath runs alongside modern flats at 1471-1479 Wimborne Road, previously a vacant grass plot if I recall correctly. See Image for the path's emergence at the other end.