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Ashton Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2TN

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

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posts: quite a few 80s signs survive, as here, while others have been replaced on the same tall posts and some have been replaced by more traditional low-level signs.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.

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

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.

Looking along this typical Moordown side street from the main Wimborne Road. It is not, in fact, completely typical as it comes to a dead end for no really apparent reason: beyond the houses at the end, and unconnected by road or path, is Delhi Road which could quite easily have been a continuation of the same road. The sign is a standard Bournemouth 1980s one, mounted on a tall post with a sign facing each way, as with most of the turnings along the mile stretch of Wimborne Road through Moordown and Winton. Many of the signs themselves have been replaced even if the tall posts are still used, but a fair number still have the 1980s signage, as here. This is photo no.91 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 road has several independent businesses from the Laundrette to Roger's Opticians.

More shops on this road including Access Lock and Key, Dasco and Pamir Pizza.

Parade of shops dating from 1926