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Calvin Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1LN

Situated in Calvin Road, according to the 1975 Kelly's Directory this was then the Winton Free Evangelical Church. It is now Bournemouth Community Church Centre, and in fairly recent years the porch section has been added, rather pleasingly mirroring the original façade.

The hilly terrain around here is overcome in Calvin Road with a dead-end section and the through section, separated by an ever-heightening wall.

Winton Liberal Club is at 521 Wimborne Road, on the corner of Calvin Road. The building site next door used to be the BP filling station, which closed in November 2006 and lay dormant for over a year before reconstruction began.

This building, at 2 Pine Road, used to be a local office of the Ordnance Survey; it is now a dental surgery.

Snow that was unforessen first thing this morning has caused congestion in Wimborne Road, as buses and other large vehicles make their way gingerly down Image, causing tailbacks behind them. This burst of snowfall was surprising, since it had started rainy this morning. By now the snowfall had been going on for a couple of hours. By nightfall, the main carriageways of all the roads were clear of snow and ice, making this the severest snowfall I think I have ever seen that had started and almost disappeared all on the same day. Throughout the day, the BBC weather forecast suggested temperatures of about 2ºC and 'light rain'.

On Wimborne Road, at the corner of Calvin Road; with a foundation stone dated 1913.

This was the BP filling station until November 2006. While the former manager took over the premises to the right, as a grocery store and newsagent, the site lay idle for a year before the new Sainsbury’s was built. It will open on 9 July 2008. I wonder if the grocery store will survive with its new neighbour.

Opened in September 2008, on Wimborne Road.

This mural was designed by students on a vocational arts course at nearby Winton Arts & Media College (formerly Winton Boys' School - see Image and is displayed by the car-park entrance of Sainsbury's (see Image; it is just to the left of the main door and is visible in Image). Among the recognisable buildings featured are Winton Library (in the left-hand panel; see Image) and the corner piece of the Plaza, predecessor to the former Continental cinema (in the middle panel; the Continental is now occupied by Image).

On Luther Road. http://www.wintonurc.org.uk/