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Drummond Road, BOURNE, PE10 9JF

A short culdesac built in the late 1980s on former farm land near the railway. The Heathcote family were Barons of Aveland in the 18th and 19th century, and married into the Willoughby de Eresby family of Grimsthorpe. The family were landowners in Bourne and the surrounding area, and benefactors to the town and to the Bourne Urban District Council, to whom they donated land for the town's council houses.

Drummond Road was named after Dugald Drummond, a scots railway engineer of the 19th century.

Pair of houses by Parker Bros. of Spalding, with their characteristic large windows, tile-hung front, steel pipe porch and concrete gutters.

A pair of detached houses. The one on the left is by Parker Brothers, from the 1960s, and the one on the right is around 15 years later.

Two fine oak trees in the garden of a 1990s house in South Road

Bourne cemetery has a new sign, announcing the presence of War Graves. There is a list of 15 servicemen buried there at https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/results/?cemetery=BOURNE%20CEMETERY

Trees and border plants in fine abundance next to South Road

A perfectly serviceable stone lodge dating from the mid-19th century was demolished in 1960 to make way for this modern bungalow sited near the entrance in South Road, once the home of the cemetery supervisor but since the chapel closed in 2006 it has been used as an office and rest room for the ground staff. See also Image

Bourne takes part in various "... in bloom" competitions, and this year has upped its game with these substantial sleeper-built wooden tubs on every road into town. I say "into town". This one is on the old town boundary, not the newer southern one implied by the new bypass and the building of Elsea Park. Obviously some controversial decisions take time to be accepted. Perhaps there was nowhere to put it, despite a big old Roundabout and some wide verges.