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Eden Grove, WIMBORNE, BH21 1RH

This George V-reign postbox has just had the last sun that it will see today. Its final collection times are 5:30pm on weekdays and 11am on Saturdays.

View looking west and taken from the B3073 road bridge entering the town from the south

Partially thatched pub on Poole Road. Internally, L-shaped bar, some bare brick walls, stone flags and wooden beams; inglenook fireplace and skittle alley. Cask ale on offer at my visit: Ringwood Bitter. For some customer comments, see http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/64/6444/Coach_and_Horses/Wimborne

This new £1.25 million house was built recently in Station Road, Wimborne, close to the downstream side of Canford Bridge. Unfortunately it is rather close to the river, and floodwaters reached across the lawn to the brickwork on the day of the photograph (height 355) and on the previous day. The wet mark on the wall shows that during the night the peak height of the flood was 376. This was almost the highest flood for 6 years, see records of river levels on this http://www.eyemead.com/LEVELS.htm

Sunshine and shadows across the graceful footbridge over the River Stour between Wimborne and Oakley.

The main Wimborne to Poole Road crosses the River Stour on this bridge. The carriageway is restricted and a pedestrian walkway is hung on the side of the original bridge. In the centre of the picture is the confluence of the Rivers Stour and Allen.The shot was taken following heavy rain that had led to the rivers bursting their banks.

The first railway station in Dorset was built on this site in 1847 having been promoted by Charles Castleman of Allendale House. Image The line between Southampton and Dorchester was popularly known as "Castleman's Corkscrew" because of the number of route deviations necessary in order to include Wimborne as a main station on the route. The station was closed to passenger traffic in 1964 after the Beeching Act, followed by the goods trains in 1977. The industrial unit in the photo was built on the site of the old station, opposite which is a tree lined section of the old railway embankment. The Wimborne Market complex beyond was built on the site of the goods yard. Image

Looking upstream from Canford Bridge; after several days of almost incessant rain, the Stour has burst her banks, flooding low-lying fields.

Canford Bridge was repaired, in the summer and autumn of 2008, at great expense in money and traffic redirection. At the same time, a rather nice cantilevered foot and cycle path was built on upstream side of the old Bridge.