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Chestnut Way, BOURNE, PE10 9RX

It's a tiny short road between Beech Avenue and Fir Avenue. If this sign gets any deeper in the hedgerow then it will be entirely forgotten. A Service Valve post directs the waterboard to a nearby cover.

They do say, "If you see a Rook on its own, it's a Crow. If you see 2 Crows together, they are Rooks". I would have sworn these were Crows, but there are 4 of them on a roof in Beech Avenue. I do not know of a Rookery in the vicinity. They are watching, intently, a flock of starlings swirling over the rooftops to the west. I really like the cage over the chimney - it looks like they have had bird trouble in the past!

The start of Beech Avenue. The black car is braking hard before it crosses the first of the massive speed bumps - he only has another 15 to go.

Because this boundary surrounds the rear garden of a house in Chestnut Way it was never subject to the open plan part of the estate design. It has been variously fenced and hedged and now has a brand new fence of some quality. The capping boards above the feather-edge seem to me to be a fairly recent innovation. I have a fence with one that is a decade old, and I don't recall them before that.

Long ignored and forgotten, these used to be important for finding telephone cables.

Double speed bumps with false kerb.

This house still has the original design of porch that all the Parker houses were built with: a flat roofed affair with a steel pole to support it.

The first homes in Beech Avenue

A new hedge has been planted around this bungalow, to end (at last) its open plan aspect that was once crucial to this estate. This is not the last such plot left open, but it was the largest, being on the corner of Beech Avenue. It is no coincidence, I think, that I find this of note. This bungalow was built to be the retirement home of one Percy Wilson, who held senior position in the local council when this estate was granted permission, and who told me several times that the open aspect required of the front gardens was his idea, to give the homes on the north of West Street a superior air. He was proud of the condition. Percy no longer shares our mortal coil, and tastes change over time. Many homes have now fenced, hedged, or otherwise enclosed their plots in great variety, and now the bungalow on the corner is experiencing the same tendency. This new hedge looks well planned and planted, and I am sure it will be a new, if different, feature of the corner. There remains an unusually wide aspect on the public side to aid the sightlines on the access to the main road. I will match nicely the existing hedge on the West Road side.

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