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Strouden Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1QL

Looking along Gresham Road just after dark and with threatening clouds to boot – although the pale sky in the distance gives an impression of what a sunny day it had been.

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.

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 was on the next corner down, outside Image, until shortly after the closure of the post office on 6 March 2004. It now stands outside this optician on the corner of Charminster Avenue and Sutton Road.

This property in Gresham Road is lit up every December with an impressive array of Christmas lights, but fairly unusually does not forget the tradition of Christmas as a nativity scene is on show in a lit display between the bay window and the front door

This church was built in the 1990s, replacing the previous, mid-20th-century church on the site. It is on the corner of Sutton Road and Charminster Avenue.

A very small hall for religious meetings in Portland Road.

This patriotic sight must belie the emotions of those inside watching the television: this picture was taken during the second half of the match which would see Germany beat England 4–1.

We look along Portland Road, across its junction with Ripon Road. Beyond the junction, the houses ascend in terms of both altitude and house-number. 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.

In the suburbs a couple of miles north of central Bournemouth, the Bournemouth Eye (see Image) can be seen in the sky beyond.