IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Birch Drive, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 0LS

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Birch Drive, BH8 0LS by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Townsend: Tyrrell Gardens
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.
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 22 Jun 2008
0.05 miles
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Townsend: primary school and community centre
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.
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 8 Jun 2008
0.07 miles
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Townsend: postbox № BH8 178, Jewell Road
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.
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 22 Jul 2008
0.08 miles
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Townsend: shop and post office
The shop, incorporating post office, at Townsend is right in the centre of this community, alongside Image Townsend has long had a rough reputation, with bus company bosses withdrawing services through the estate in the evenings, and a letter bomb being posted in the postbox threatening postal services. However, reputations lasts longer than they deserve and Townsend has a thriving community centre and has had postal and bus services restored. The new postbox is a double-aperture one, which looks quite out of place here (see Image).
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 8 Jun 2008
0.09 miles
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Houses in Stone Close
This small residential road is just opposite Townsend School and on the opposite side of Jewell Road. The houses are modest terraced houses with small gardens.
Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 15 Nov 2011
0.10 miles
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Townsend: the Throop Road end of footpath K47
A public right of way, footpath K47, heads from Ibbertson Road to cut across the broad triangular grass area and meet Throop Road here. The course of the right of way appears to be mapped dead-straight, undefined across the grass to go through the car park on our right - see Image for a view illustrating this. However, the only available route is to come along this paved path onto the open space, and then veer off it alongside the car park railings. See Image for the next view on the route behind us, and Image for the view towards us from Throop Road ahead.
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 16 Oct 2016
0.14 miles
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Townsend: onto footpath K47 from Throop Road
A public right of way, footpath K47, heads from Ibbertson Road to cut across the broad triangular grass area and meet Throop Road here. The course of the right of way appears to be mapped dead-straight, undefined across the grass to go through the car park directly ahead - see Image for a view illustrating this. However, the only available route is to come along the paved path onto the open space, and then veer off left alongside the car park railings. See Image for the view towards us from the path ahead, with links to further photos on the route.
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 16 Oct 2016
0.14 miles
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Townsend: rerouted (?) course of footpath K47
A public right of way, footpath K47, heads towards us from Ibbertson Road to cut across the broad triangular grass area and meet Throop Road. The course of the right of way appears to be mapped dead-straight, to go through the car park on our left - see Image for a view illustrating this. Meanwhile, see Image for the next view on the route ahead, and Image for the next view behind us.
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 16 Oct 2016
0.16 miles
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Townsend: the tarmac of footpath K47 fizzles out
The pavement on the right leads only to the frontages of some bungalows. Meanwhile, a public right of way, footpath K47, heads directly ahead to cut across the broad triangular grass area and meet Throop Road. The course of the right of way appears to be mapped dead-straight, through what is now a car park for the distant block of flats. There is a tarmac surface at this end, as can be seen, but this fizzles out midway across the grass. See Image for the wider view from behind us, and Image for the view towards us from ahead.
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 16 Oct 2016
0.16 miles
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Townsend: corner of a car park on footpath K47
A public right of way, footpath K47, heads towards us from Ibbertson Road to cut across the broad triangular grass area and meet Throop Road. The course of the right of way appears to be mapped dead-straight, to go through what is now a car park for a neighbouring block of flats on our left - see Image for the view towards us from ahead. Meanwhile, see Image for the next view on the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us.
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 16 Oct 2016
0.17 miles
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