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Wimborne Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2BX

Two automobile businesses side by side on Wimborne Road.

Looking diagonally across a former car showroom forecourt, now occupied by a popular hand carwash and valeting service. The spray is catching the sunlight interestingly as we look directly against the sun - especially the car left of centre, whose shadow encroaches across the spray.

A short cul-de-sac running downhill from the main Wimborne Road, dating perhaps from the late 1960s. On the corner is the Halifax Memorial, of which more here: Image The road sign is a standard one from around 2000-2006 featuring the borough coat of arms and, in this case, incorporating a no-through road sign on its right-hand end, unphotographable because of foliage and an unfortunately positioned signpost. This is photo no.267 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 downhill road off Wimborne Road to more houses.

Pictured on Remembrance Sunday, 11 November 2012, the Moordown Halifax Memorial was unveiled on 10 July 2011 and stands on the corner of the main Wimborne Road and Meadow Court Close. It is inscribed: In memory of the two local residents and seven aircrew who lost their lives in the cause of freedom when RAF Halifax bomber JP 137 crashed at this location on 21st March 1944. Mrs Dorothea Bennett, Flat 9 Meadow Court Mr Percy F. Chislett, 1027 Wimborne Road Sgt. Denis R. Evans, Pilot, RAFVR Sgt. Henry W. Roberts, Nav., RAFVR F/O Stanley A. Appleton, B/A, RAFVR Sgt. George A. Alexander, W/Op., RAFVR Sgt. Stanley F. Gent, F/E, RAFVR Sgt. Kenneth Green, A/G, RAFVR Sgt. Reginald R. McGREGOR, A/G, RCAF LEST WE FORGET Organised by the Moordown 2010 Committee as a contribution to the bicentenary of Bournemouth Meadow Court is the block of flats immediately behind the memorial (Image), while 1027 Wimborne Road would have been on the opposite corner. An excecllent account of the event in 1944 can be found on the Winton Forum website here: http://www.wintonforum.co.uk/halifax.html

A man crosses the road with the Holly Tree pub behind him.

Used car dealership on Wimborne Road.

A small cul-de-sac off the main Wimborne Road, with the block of flats Meadow Court on the corner (unseen, to the right). On the small tree/grass patch on the corner stands Image, commemorating those who lost their lives during a wartime plane crash on this spot in 1944.

A small cul-de-sac of houses off Hillcrest Road - both are, indeed, at the crest of the hill; it goes steeply downhill on Priory View Road just to our left here. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. Unusually, there is no no-through-road sign either alongside or incorporated in the nameplate itself. This is photo no.198 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 block of flats on the main Wimborne Road. The resident of Flat 9 lost her life when a Halifax bomber crashed at this spot in 1944; she and another local resident are commemorated, along with the aircrew, on the memorial visible between the road sign and the tree - see Image