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Poppy Place, BOURNE, PE10 0GL

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.

This new development is on the southern edge of Bourne, just inside the Ring Road. This view is from Tilia Way.

EIIR cipher on the pillar box on Quayside

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.

A spurious name. There was never a quay here (although the location of the docks for the Roman Bourne-Morton canal is unknown). The water here is part of a mandatory flood control system disguised as a decorative pond. That said, with the lime trees and all, it looks nicer than I ever expected.

This is not an original feature, or a landscape enhancement thoughtfully provided by the builder. It is a runoff capture basin, required because this estate is on land known to be at risk of flooding. This is intended to moderate the milder levels of inundation. The fountain, too, is to reduce maintenance costs associated with the development of blanket weed