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Wimborne Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH2 6NT

Looking along this very first section of Wimborne Road: the house numbers here are in the 20s, while they eventually reach 1823 (odd) and 1714 (even).

A touch of art deco in the curved balconies.

Looking toward the junction with Wimborne Road. The apartment block on the right is 20 Wimborne Road. The photographer was stood next to the lamp post in this picture Image

Snow in the gardens of flats on Wimborne Road.

Wimborne Road is easily Bournemouth's longest road, running for over four miles in the direction of Wimborne Minster, culminating in the town's highest house numbers - 1716 even and 1823 odd - at Bear Cross in Image (see Image). (However, a couple of hundred numbers are missed out on both sides at the southern end of Winton.) Here, we look along the stretch from its start at the top of Richmond Hill in the town centre. The bright sun is reflecting off surface water in the gutter after a night and morning of heavy rain. Braidley Road is off to the right.

A man is walking down the centre of Wimborne Road. He may get run over.

The very beginning of Wimborne Road, with house numbers in single digits which will eventually reach 1823 on the odds side a few miles further on. This first stretch of Wimborne Road is a continuation north at the top of Richmond Hill, heading from The Square in the heart of town – Richmond Hill Roundabout can be seen at the bottom of the picture (see Image). At the end of this long straight is Cemetery Junction (see Image) with the cemetery directly ahead, identified by the chapel of rest which is now Image The other spire, to the left, belongs to the Image

This benchmark is set into the wall of Image and has become completely overgrown with ivy overhanging from the other side of the wall, as is evident in the linked picture at the start of this paragraph. I wonder how long it is since the benchmark saw daylight, until I uncovered it today! The angle of the mark gives an indication of the gradient of the wall, whose bricks follow the same gradient rather than being laid to the horizontal.

A large, imposing house from the Victorian or early 20th-Century period, typical of the suburbs to the immediate north of Bournemouth town centre. This one is currently in use as a school of English for foreign students. There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark in the brick wall that is covered with ivy - it's roughly level with the middle of the gap between the white lines in the road. See Image