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Jewell Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 0JP

This public footpath, nowadays marked out as a shared foot/cycle route, runs for 500m or so alongside the main A338 and is essentially a replacement for this segment of Holdenhurst Road, which was lost to make way for the dual carriageway. Holdenhurst Road is still one of the town's main routes but no longer reaches Holdenhurst village as it originally did. Here, the camera is positioned low to the ground as we look along the white line separating the intended cycle and walking halves of the paved path. See Image for the next view on the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us - each with links to further photos along the route.

Townsend is a substantial 70s council estate in north Bournemouth. This, Tyrrell Gardens, is typical of the side streets off Jewell Road, the horseshoe-shaped main road through the estate.

This shop/post office is found between Strouden and Holdenhurst.

This public footpath, nowadays marked out as a shared foot/cycle route, runs for 500m or so alongside the main A338 and is essentially a replacement for this segment of Holdenhurst Road, which was lost to make way for the dual carriageway. Holdenhurst Road is still one of the town's main routes but no longer reaches Holdenhurst village as it originally did. Here, we look across the path from a steep bank separating it from a public green space. The view extends across the A338 Spur Road at the point where a slip road joins the main carriageway (see the thick white markings at the extreme right-hand edge of the picture). See Image for the next view on the path to the left, and Image for the next view to the right - each with links to further photos along the route.

This public footpath, nowadays marked out as a shared foot/cycle route, runs for 500m or so alongside the main A338 and is essentially a replacement for this segment of Holdenhurst Road, which was lost to make way for the dual carriageway. Holdenhurst Road is still one of the town's main routes but no longer reaches Holdenhurst village as it originally did. Here, we look along the path just as two dog walkers, with five dogs between them, stop to chat about a quarter of the way along the path. See Image for the next view on the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us - each with links to further photos along the route.

Controversially, Bournemouth Borough Council voted, on 3 June 2008, to close Townsend Primary & Nursery School at the end of this term. The decision followed years of underachievement, inadequacy cited in Ofsted reports, and falling rolls. However, the week before the school had come out of "Special Measures" by Ofsted, suggesting that improvement had started to surface. As well as the educational implications, people on the estate are worried about whether the site, once the school has closed, will retain a community function or if it will be sold off.

Detail of the postbox outside Image, which replaced an earlier, single-aperture box which has a letter-bomb posted into it during one of the more troubled episodes of the Townsend estate. Townsend has always had a bad reputation but I don't believe it's as bad as all that – it's never going to be the most sought-after place but, I expect, if you wanted a proper sense of 'community', few suburbs of Bournemouth would match it.

This public footpath, nowadays marked out as a shared foot/cycle route, runs for 500m or so alongside the main A338 and is essentially a replacement for this segment of Holdenhurst Road, which was lost to make way for the dual carriageway. Holdenhurst Road is still one of the town's main routes but no longer reaches Holdenhurst village as it originally did. Here, we look eastward along the path and can see the main A338, known as the Spur Road, through the trees to the right. We are just alongside the point where the northbound on-slip starts to join the main carriageway. See Image for the next view on the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us - each with links to further photos along the route.

This public footpath, nowadays marked out as a shared foot/cycle route, runs for 500m or so alongside the main A338 and is essentially a replacement for this segment of Holdenhurst Road, which was lost to make way for the dual carriageway. Holdenhurst Road is still one of the town's main routes but no longer reaches Holdenhurst village as it originally did. Here, we look along the path about three quarters of the way to the eastern end, as the dividing line between the foot and cycle paths takes an unexpected diversion for a few yards. See Image for the next view on the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us - each with links to further photos along the route.