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Southbourne Grove, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 3QZ

The collection plate on the right is the old-style one. The yellow patch is visible from a fair distance and denoted a Sunday collection (this box being outside a post office). However, from 26 October 2007, Sunday collections were discontinued. A Postwatch survey suggested that only about 4% of the population valued this relatively expensive-to-run service. (The sticker bottom-left of this plate would have been affixed during the run-up to that date, stating that Sunday collections would not occur thereafter.) These collection plates were then gradually replaced by those on the left, in Royal Mail's new typeface and giving equal prominence in print size to both weekday and Saturday collections. Quite how one of these was overlooked is quite difficult to fathom; perhaps just one new plate per box was produced and they forgot to remove the other.

With a sign that replaces the "i" with a pipe.

Pub on Southbourne Grove. Since a previous photograph http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1167907 the exterior has changed, and the beer range improved: http://www.grove-tavern.co.uk/Welcome.html

This postbox stands outside the post office (see Image) and has its back to the Grove Tavern, visible beyond.

Formerly a bank, now pub. Feels very much like a locals' local. Internally, wedge-shaped bar with drinking & eating areas to left & right; has recently been refurbished, all bare brick walls - looked better to me as it was. Cask ale on offer at my visit: Ringwood Fortyniner. For what the pub has to say about itself, see http://www.grove-tavern.co.uk/Welcome.html ; for some customer reviews, see http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/27/2754/Grove_Tavern/Southbourne

On service 23 from Tuckton Bridge via Cranleigh Road, taken on the last day of normal trolleybus operation in Bournemouth. This is one of a series of views featuring buses in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=137652761

Southbourne Grove is a fairly major shopping street. The post office moved to the shop in the foreground about 10 years ago, from premises farther down the street on the other side, near the farmost visible shops.

A suburban one-way road curving South from Southbourne Road back onto it.

A narrow lane in three sections, serving commercial premises on Southbourne Grove, and residential properties.

The bus is emerging from Beresford Road; at this point, Seabourne Road (left) become Southbourne Grove.