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Wimborne Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2DZ

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.

On Wimborne Road, at the junction with Vicarage Road; white-tiled building, with names picked out in raised blue lettering; from an era when correct punctuation was expected! Current occupants: estate agents, Indian take-away, carpet shop.

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.

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

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.

This barber shop has opened in the last couple of years - the premises, on the corner of Moorfield Grove, having previously housed a car audio retailer. The shop is indeed red - very red - especially when viewed at night.

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.

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.

These premises have been a car workshop for many years. In the last decade or so, the upstairs has been occupied by the Phoenix MMA boxing gym (which offers martial arts tuition too). The gym's entrance is the right-hand door and comprises a long slope which is recognisably an old car ramp, from the days when the garage took up both floors. The business name Westway is I believe related to the workshop that once accompanied the petrol station on the corner of West Way and Castle Lane (Image)

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.