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Dist:0.1km<br/>Birchingtonians seem to love having Victorian gas lanterns in their front gardens - this is one of three houses I've seen which have them. This is on Cross Road in Epple Bay - I just hope the owners don't mind me putting this on here!
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.2km<br/>This lamp post is extremely rare - it's made by Thorn (the same Thorn that makes Thorn EMI records and Ferguson televisions) and is sold as a Beta 9. Unfortunately, it was replaced in February of this year by more modern installations. Lucky I caught this while I did! Alpha Road is also shown on the OS map as a B road, for reasons which are beyond me! View taken looking north-northwest.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.2km<br/>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.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.2km<br/>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.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.3km<br/>This house on Coleman's Stairs Road is another one to have a gas lantern in its front garden! Although, as you can see, it has an ordinary light bulb fitted instead of the original gas filament. Coincidentally, this is just around the corner from the previous installation (shown in [[1485568]]) and was also taken looking northeast.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.3km<br/>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.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.3km<br/>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.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is a response to Shazz's photo http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1398845. It is the same species of butterfly - a Painted Lady - but is instead taken from my nan's garden on Woodford Court in Birchington. My nan's garden stones make quite an effective, rural-looking background. Picture taken looking north-northwest towards the sea.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.3km<br/>Along Epple Bay Avenue, looking west.
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.3km<br/>View looking south-west down Albion Road towards All Saints Church, where English poet, illustrator, painter and scholar Dante Gabriel Rossetti is buried.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.3km<br/>Coleman's Stairs Road after the ramp down to the sea front is privately owned and so is lit with these Victorian gas lanterns (or modern replicas), albeit with modern light bulbs rather than gas filaments fitted and mounted on plain modern columns rather than those with ladder bars specially designed for gas lanterns. View taken looking east-southeast.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.3km<br/>The trail follows the coast along the roads and along the sea path. Here the route descents down to Epple Bay.
©Oast House Archive
Dist:0.3km<br/>This exquisite Tudor house can be found on the corner of Spencer Road and the private road, Winston Court. It has a form of Italian plasterwork known as stucco on its rear. View taken looking north-north west from Spencer Road.
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.4km<br/>This view shows the other arm of the fork in Woodford Court covered with a thin coating of snow, looking north-west. I literally only had to walk a few centimetres from my position in A Snowy Woodford Court, Birchington to take this view, emphasising the extent of the narrowness and small size of the road!
©Robert Lamb
Dist:0.4km<br/>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.
©Robert Lamb

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