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Wimborne Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2BD

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.

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

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

An NHS run clinic which has a lot of stop smoking signs on it, as well as some of the other services it provides.

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.

One of the major routes of Bournemouth's suburbs, this road leads to Ensbury Park, as its name suggests. We look through the railings at its junction with Wimborne Road towards the first few houses, which are typical of the area – early-20th-century detached houses whose front gardens have mainly been turned into parking spaces over the years. 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.136 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.

A cyclist is trying to climb into the car he's leaning into, and a white bus approaches from the opposite side, which makes a change to all the yellow ones.

This florists has her love heart shaped balloons out ready to sell some flowers to those unfortunate enough to need to buy them this weekend.

The white façade of this parade of shops, named St. John’s Chambers on the end and St. John’s Buildings in the centre, catches the sun splendidly till lunchtime. They are at 748-754 Wimborne Road.