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Charminster Avenue, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1RZ

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.

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.

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.

The lights are on but I suspect nobody's in. An 11pm view of Image from the same spot.

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.

Charminster Library is on the corner of Charminster Road and Strouden Avenue.

This is situated at the junction of Strouden Avenue and Charmister Road.

The public footpath from Ashling Crescent comes down onto Charminster Road opposite Charminster Avenue, at what is known as the Fiveways thanks to another junction just to the left, and the Fiveways pub which stands between them (the pub wall is just in shot at the extreme left). The shop on the corner has been several things over the years and after some time closed is now a general store (see Image from 2008, which also has the Fiveways pub in view). See Image for the view towards us from across the road, and Image for the view up the path behind us, with links to further photos on the path.

Two vans turn right out of Charminster Avenue at the very wide junction with the main Charminster Road (a third road, Rutland Road, also comes out here, sharply behind us). Across the junction, we see a public footpath heading up to Ashling Crescent. See Image for the view towards us from a little way up the path, with links to further photos along the path.