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Birkdale Road, BROADSTONE, BH18 9AY

This Elizabeth II-reign postbox serves this small estate of bungalows off the Higher Blandford Road, and is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 11:45am on Saturdays.

Planted by a Miss Cotton in the garden of Home Cottage, 73 Higher Blandford Road, this huge tree is now 560 cms in girth. Discovered in California and only introduced to Europe in 1953, this tree will grow a lot bigger and be visible for miles. It must be Broadstone's largest tree.

A Christadelphian hall in Broadstone, in the outskirts of Poole.

A road of long straights.

The Castleman trailway heads north out of Broadstone, following the route of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway for a short distance. It then turns to the right, crossing a bridge to join the alignment of the former railway to Wimborne. This section of route is also on route 25 of the National Cycle Network. The path continuing straight ahead remains on the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway trackbed, but only for a very short distance. Both the railway lines closed in the 1960s, as part of the "Beeching Cuts".

Lower and Higher Blandford Road between them form a long, largely straight road which does indeed head towards Blandford from Poole (though nowadays traffic is directed along the A350). Here we look up a particularly straight stretch past this postbox, which hugs a telephone pole and is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 11:45am on Saturdays.

A popular route for runners.

A view of the Castleman Trailway heading north out of Broadstone. This section of the path is also on route 25 of the National Cycle Network. This is the site of a railway junction just to the north of Broadstone station. The path curving off to the left is on the trackbed of the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, which closed in 1966. The road and houses to the right occupy the trackbed of the former line to Wimborne which closed in 1964. These closures were part of the "Beeching Cuts". A short distance further on from where this image was taken, the Castleman Trailway will leave the route of the Somerset & Dorset line and cross over to take up the route towards Wimborne.

Cotton Close is a residential cul-de-sac in Broadstone, in the outskirts of Poole. This image was taken on an early February day. The trees in this image are evergreens, and have therefore kept their leaves through the winter months.

A traffic light-controlled junction on Higher Blandford Road in Broadstone, on the outskirts of Poole. This road forms part of the route of the B3074.