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Neame Road, BIRCHINGTON, CT7 9DU

View looking south-west down Albion Road towards All Saints Church, where English poet, illustrator, painter and scholar Dante Gabriel Rossetti is buried.

This old concrete lamp-post looks beautiful with the ivy climbing up it, but looks even more beautiful when both it and the ivy are dotted with white specks! This is found on the right hand side of Albion Road at the junction with Alpha Road, looking north towards the footbridge over the railway at the centre-left of the square.

An image from March 2008 that I forgot to post at that time. This is a view of the garage block and the rest of the right hand prong of the road fork of Woodford Court in snow. The four houses in the background on Albion Road look fantastic with their powdery white coating, as does the grass on either side of the road. View taken looking east-southeast.

At the end of the right hand prong of the road fork on Woodford Court is this block of garages. For privacy reasons I didn't photograph the whole block, but just included a few in shot just to get an idea. View taken looking east-southeast, with Albion Road running along behind the garages in front of the four houses in the background.

An otherwise plain, typical Birchington back street, here is a snowy view of the one-way Crescent Road, off Albion Road, the next turning south-west of Woodford Court. The view is taken from the Albion Road junction looking north-west towards Station Road, which is visible from the bend in the road.

Off Albion Road is a small pay-and-display car park serving Garnett's garden centre where I pictured the old tungsten lamp post and Brills DIY centre next door. An alleyway forks just to the right of the photograph from Yew Tree Gardens off Canterbury Road, one prong of the fork leading into this car park and the other leading into the nearby park, also off Albion Road. The real reason I took this photo, however, was the floodlights that light the car park (about the only interesting things in this car park), which are rather shrouded in the tree. They are mounted on an old Stewart and Lloyd column from the 1950s, meaning an older lantern was probably installed here before the car park authority butchered the column and installed these horrible modern floodlights on it. That tree could really do with some pruning too, as the floodlights don't do a very good job at lighting the car park being so buried in it! View taken looking east-northeast.

A little irony here! Somebody has lost a wheel rim for their Volkswagen car, left it on the pavement, and some kind-hearted pedestrian or angry motorist has placed it on the Albion Road streetname sign. It is ironic because there is an Albion Road Motor Company on another Albion Road in Broadstairs, just a matter of kilometres away from Birchington! This was taken from the junction with Alpha Road, looking north-west towards Birchington village centre.

On the afternoon of 23rd March 2008, light snow flurries fell in Birchington. It settled on grassy areas, but the roads and pavements were too wet beforehand, so it did not settle on them. I was extremely lucky to be in Birchington that day, because it is the first time I have ever seen it snow in the village! This view is looking north (seaward) down the right hand arm of the fork in Woodford Court, near the square's 30 line.