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Coppice Way, BOURNE, PE10 0GF

Part of the once-controversial Elsea Park estate, built by Larkfleet homes.

At the junction with Eagle Road.

More and more people in Bourne work from home, but few put business signage on their homes.

The memorial drinking fountain erected to celebrate the life of John Lely Ostler (1811-59) began life in the market place, now the town centre, but was moved to the cemetery in 1962 and is pictured here before being Grade II listed and restored by the town council at a cost of £9,000 - see Image

One of the few stone monuments in Bourne is the Ostler memorial fountain, a fine example of Victorian gothic erected by public subscription in 1860 as a memorial to one of the town's 19th century worthies, property owner John Lely Ostler (1811-59), and paid for by public subscription. The fountain was originally sited in the market place but a century later it had become an obstruction to increasing traffic flows and so in 1962 it was moved stone by stone to the town’s cemetery in South Road. In July 2007, the fountain was given a Grade II listing and Bourne Town Council subsequently agreed to spend £9,000 on restoration which included the erection of protective iron railings. See the memorial before restoration Image

The present ambulance station was opened on a site at the corner of the Bourne Hospital complex in South Road in 1980 following a disastrous fire which wrecked the previous headquarters in Queen’s Road. The hospital has now closed and the buildings demolished and replaced by a housing estate but the ambulance station remains although financial restraints within the East Midlands Ambulance Service make its future uncertain.

There used to be an ambulance garage at the fire station, but it was destroyed in a terrible fatal fire. The replacement was built here, which at the time was in the grounds of the isolation hospital. That facility was torn away from us by NHS management, and in recent years the merger of the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire ambulance trusts nearly cost us the ambulance station too. But we need it, and much agitation saved the facility. The ambulance station is now tucked away in a housing estate built where the hospital once stood.

Like the cemetery; clean and tidy.