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Southcote Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 3SW

A dustcart finishes this morning's collection and turns into the main Bournemouth Borough Council depot in Southcote Road. The main building, visible through the gateway, was originally the borough tramsheds.

Looking along the eastern end of Southcote Road. Number 131, the second premises along in this picture, was Southcote Road Post Office until its closure on 3 March 1980.

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

This public footpath is a steepish alley leading down from Carlton Road onto Spencer Road. We see it here at its top end as a man in a medical boot struggles somewhat carrying a large object. See Image for the next view on the path ahead, with links to further photos on the route.

Taken from St Clements Church Tower

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.

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 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

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.

Southcote Road is a minor road in the suburbs of Bournemouth.