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Pearson Gardens, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 7HZ

Kinson Grove forms three sides of a largeish rectangle off Wimborne Road, with the resultant two 90º corners at the far end. Here we look along it from the eastern end, with the telephone exchange on the corner. The road sign is a standard one from around 2000-2006, perhaps a little earlier, featuring the borough coat of arms. This is photo no.230 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 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.

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.

Nowadays the name Headless Cross is almost completely lost, although the junction is still named as such by the Ordnance Survey on its largest scale maps. It is said to have derived from the original 'T' shape of the junction of East Howe Lane (left) with Wimborne Road, although this is surely a standard junction shape. In everyone's living memory it has been a standard crossroads with The Broadway, which runs off to the right and must have been connected here at least 50 years ago and possibly very much longer. It is a major crossroads on the main Wimborne Road through to Kinson, with East Howe Lane being an important suburban route, though unclassified. The white building on the corner is Northbourne Surgery.

A small infill development of bungalows in the back gardens of some houses in The Broadway. I've noticed that quite a few of these have names which are girls' forenames: Jenni Close and Samantha Close are two other nearby examples. 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. This is photo no.131 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.

Looking across the rooftops of Kinson/Northbourne as a rainbow reaches Earth roughly at the playpark in Keeble Road, a modern housing estate on a previously vacant plot. The electricity pylon in the background stands in the middle of a field at about SZ 0764 9720, larger-scale Ordnance Survey maps show the line running a few hundred yards to the north, so presumably it has been realigned in recent years.

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.

A little late-70s or early 80s development. The house number, 1376a, can only belong to Bournemouth's longest road, Wimborne Road. This row of houses is similar to those in Graycot Close itself, although semi-detached rather than detached, so is probably part of the same development. (If the houses are smaller than those they replaced, that might explain the 'a' suffix.) 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 is incorporated into the nameplate. This is photo no.171 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.