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Knyveton Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 3QR

Looking along Image from their eastern end – see also Image

- This is the property that occupies the site of 19, Spencer Road today. Along with no. 29 on the corner, it is clearly a post-war dwelling in a street that otherwise consists of late-Victorian properties. Both nos. 19, and 29, are therefore assumed to have been demolished and rebuilt after the war. James Mitchell aged 69, his wife Fanny aged 68, and Lily Mugg aged 47, all died here in the bombing on the night of 9th November 1940. Image

Typical Bournemouth road of Hotels and apartment blocks.

- This is the corner property where baby Jane died that occupies the site of 29, Spencer Road today, at the junction of Vale Road. It is clearly a post-war dwelling, as is the property at number 19 further down (the property with balconies), both assumed to have been severely damaged or destroyed during the bombing of 9th November 1940. They are the only buildings of a post-war date in this street of otherwise late-Victorian housing, and therefore assumed to represent properties that were rebuilt after the war. Image

This postbox in Knyveton Road has no cipher giving the reign in which it was made. These were manufactured between 1879 and 1887 so, despite the anonymity, it is Victorian. The road name is pronounced 'Nivverton'.

This public footpath is a steepish alley leading down from Carlton Road behind us onto Spencer Road. We see it here as it reaches the bottom, and see alongside us a sign marked Carlton Walk. This is part of a fairly recent safety initiative in several parts of Bournemouth, whereby paths are named so that, in any emergency, one can give the name of the path rather than a description of the location which one might not know well. See Image for the view up the path from ahead, and Image for the next view on the path behind us, with links to further pictures on the route.

A road of houses and hotels

This public footpath is a steepish alley leading up to Carlton Road. We see it here from across the roof of a parked car in Spencer Road - this is pretty much the nearest street to the town centre with free, unlimited on-street parking so it fills early morning with commuter cars. See Image for the view out to the road from just up the path, and links to further pictures on the route.

This public footpath is a steepish alley leading down from Carlton Road behind us onto Spencer Road. We see it here at roughly its mid-point - these two properties in Spencer Road have breeze-block walls while behind us, the Carlton Road neighbours have fences and a hedge. See Image for the next view on the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us from here.