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Wimborne Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2DW

Looking across Wimborne Road towards a parade of shops called The Strand, according to the remains of the lettering in its centre, encompassing even numbers 898-912. Visible on this side of the road is Image

Looking along Ashton Road from the main Wimborne Road. When I was growing up in the 1980s, all the side turnings had these double-facing name signs on high posts: quite a few 80s signs survive, as here, while others have been replaced on the same tall posts and some have been replaced by more traditional low-level signs. This is photo no.20 of a series of 451 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 road has several independent businesses from the Laundrette to Roger's Opticians.

This postbox was repositioned here when the post office joined these premises (see Image). It replaced two – one which was on the next corner south, by Cowper Road, and one that was at the far end of Tennyson Road, the next turning north.

Moordown's post office used to be further up Wimborne Road, on the other side (see Image), but closed for a time when the postmistress was found to be defrauding the business, during the 1990s. After a year without a branch in Moordown, it reopened here. I note that the shop is called 'Late Stop' but it is closed, now, at 7 o'clock on a Thursday evening.

Even numbers 870-892 Wimborne Road. The parade is dated 1924 on the gable and runs from Cowper to Ashton Roads.

Parade of shops dating from 1926

Looking along the main Wimborne Road as the electricity board remove the festive adornments to the lampposts. They were turned off on 5 January, of course, but it takes a while before the festive lights are physically removed.

A mid-1990s infill development towards the western end of Bloomfield Avenue, whose sign, from a distance, resembles the standard borough nameplate of the time (see for example Image) – but in fact it isn't, so presumably it was erected by the developer rather than the council. This is photo no.42 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.