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Pine Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1LY

Mixed Edwardian/1920s housing in Green Road.

At dusk, from this angle, the whitewashed remains of the words "Gresham" and "Office" can just be discerned on the white panel above the door, catching the light of the lamppost opposite. The building is at 44 Charminster Avenue, on the corner of Gresham Road which gave the post office its name, and it is now an estate agent. The post office replaced an earlier branch named Strouden Road in 1926, and closed down on 6 March 2004.

This George V-reign postbox serves typical Bournemouth suburbia, and is in Frampton Road close to its junction with Green Road (left to right) and Murley Road (seen in the distance).

This is one of the very few roads to still have these primitive kerbstones and gutters. We moved into our house nearby in 1987 and ours were updated fairly soon after.

Looking down Murley Road, which turns into Frampton Road in the bottom of the dip, with white rooftops all around. Two days after heavy snow earlier in the week had all thawed, this fresh lot fell from the north this morning, despite the fact that the day started rainy, with large puddles all around. By nightfall, the main carriageways of all roads were clear of snow and ice, so this was a very heavy fall considering that it started and had almost disappeared on the same day.

Linear gardens between Firbank & Green Roads http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Library/PDF/Landscape/DRAFT%20WOODLAND%20STRATEGY%2006-2006.pdf Commemorates the death of soldiers from the Hampshire Regiment at the defence of Fampoux in 1918 http://www.wintonforum.co.uk/wintongreatwar.html

Small Park off Green Road.

Acland Road is typical of the side streets on this stretch of Charminster: seemingly endless lines of gables curving into the distance, built in the 1920s, before the need for parking was foreseen.

This corner premises was a Spar grocery store until the late 1990s, and was taken over by this fish & chip shop after a couple of years of emptiness. It appears bereft of an actual name, but it is open, as you can see, on a Sunday evening. The Fiveways pub is next door.

These small gardens abut the eastern end of Green Road and adjoin Firbank Road. At the top end is a small memorial stone (Image) which says simply, "These gardens, laid out by ex servicemen, are named to commemorate the gallant stand of the Hampshires at Fampoux." The workmen's cabins visible at the far end are here during the council's resurfacing of Firbank and Green Roads. For much more discussion on this small garden, see the Winton Forum page here: http://www.wintonforum.co.uk/fampoux.html