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Mayfield Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1TE

A small church on the corner of Mayfield Road (ahead and behind) and Queen Mary Avenue (left and right). The 1975 Kelly's Directory lists it as the Andrew Vine Memorial Church of the Nazarene, but I can find no mention of Andrew Vine today.

View east along this quiet residential street of solidly built victorian red brick houses.

The middle of three parallel monarchical avenues in Moordown, sandwiched between King Edward and Queen Mary Avenues. They comprise typical Moordown housing - decent detached houses from the reign of Edward and the Georges in the 20th century. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. This is photo no.222 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

Mayfield Road comes towards the camera from Coronation Road and crosses the three 'royal' avenues – Queen Mary, King George and King Edward – before turning a slight bend to end on Malvern Road. That last segment, distant behind us, was called Clarkson Road until about the mid-1930s. The sign is a modern one, from 2010-15 when this more modern, abstract emblem rather than the traditional town coat of arms as the working logo of the council. This is photo no.265 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

Looking along this typical Moordown residential street from the main Wimborne Road. There is a busy traffic light junction almost abutting this one but excluding it, hence the railings to encourage pedestrians to go along the road a little before crossing. The houses are typical of Moordown: desirable, early 20th-century detached. The name Coronation Avenue may indicate that it was built around 1901 or 1910 and I think the latter is more likely, as the next three roads along are Queen Mary, King George and King Edward Avenues. The sign is a modern one, from 2010-15 when this more modern, abstract emblem rather than the traditional town coat of arms as the working logo of the council. They are more often seen under perspex and mounted on two posts, but this one is just affixed to the railings. This is photo no.89 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

This is the view south of these 1930's houses in Endfield Rd close to the junction with Coronation Avenue.

One of the typical residential streets in Winton and Moordown, with its early 20th-century houses, Moorfield Grove is nevertheless slightly unusual in coming to an abrupt stop, at the back of what was originally the grounds of Winton Boys' School, a community centre and sheltered housing since the school moved to more modern premises in the late 1990s. It is also unusual in having no road nameplate: it did until fairly recently but must have been the victim of vandalism or traffic collision. This is photo no.280 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

As a small child I lived in Moorfield Grove ca 1949 and remember being sent out on my own to get twopence worth of chips from a fish and chip shop on the main road. Given its tiled frontage I suspect the shop which housed the upholsterers in 2004 might have been the place.

A Yellow Bus service has come at 3.40pm to pick up the children waiting after the end of the school day.