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An Elizabeth II-reign postbox set into a pillar adjoining 142 Malvern Road; now that the house and pillar have been plastered it looks almost as if it is set into the property itself. Although it noticeably used to be a shop, this was never a post office.
©Chris Downer
Dwellings will soon be on the site of the former Martin Luther German church, which took over the disused church of St. Birinus, on the acute corner of Malvern and Easter Roads, in 1963 until its demolition in January 2008. A history of the church will be found on the excellent Winton Community website here: http://www.wintonforum.co.uk/martinluther.html
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>[[870099]] does not often have this appearance; it followed Bournemouth's heaviest snowfall for some years, occurring overnight and today. The picture was taken at about 10 o'clock in the evening.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking along Limited Road, a small residential street, from its western end. This George V-reign postbox is my local one. Returning home from a fortnight's holiday a couple of years ago, I came here to post a letter only to find a square of tarmac where the postbox had stood – I am pleased to report it was reinstated a few months later.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>This church was built in the 1990s, replacing the previous, mid-20th-century church on the site. It is on the corner of Sutton Road and Charminster Avenue.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>This property in Gresham Road is lit up every December with an impressive array of Christmas lights, but fairly unusually does not forget the tradition of Christmas as a nativity scene is on show in a lit display between the bay window and the front door
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>This George V-reign postbox was on the next corner down, outside [[713980]], until shortly after the closure of the post office on 6 March 2004. It now stands outside this optician on the corner of Charminster Avenue and Sutton Road.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>The low sun at 8 o'clock on a summer's evening, together with the gentle slope of Castle Road, produces exceptionally long shadows: the shadow of the car on the right extends for 40 or 50 metres down to the junction (and might be even longer but for the change in gradient) – not to mention my very long legs! It is also hazardous to drivers proceeding westwards: [[519387]]
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking along Gresham Road just after dark and with threatening clouds to boot – although the pale sky in the distance gives an impression of what a sunny day it had been.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>At about 8 o'clock on summer evenings, the sun is low in the sky and makes the motorist's job very difficult. This is particularly so of Castle Road, whose gentle gradient is just right for no sun visor to extend low enough to shield the sun from one's eyes. The scenario also produces extremely long shadows: [[519392]]
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>This George VI-reign box is on the corner of Haverstock Road and, er, Haverstock Road! All three sections of road that meet here are called that – the main thoroughfare to the north and southeast, and the short link road to the west. The postbox numbering sequence is quite a mystery – the first bit obviously refers to the postcode disstrict BH9 but I doubt that there are many more than 335 postboxes in the whole conurbation, let alone the BH9 district.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>An old, traditional shopfront that has been unused for some time.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>Snowy footprints on the approach to a lamppost on this short residential street.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the view south of these 1930's houses in Endfield Rd close to the junction with Coronation Avenue.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking along the northern segment of Benmore Road towards a house in Brassey Road whose roof is hosting an interesting shadow of a nearby chimney.
©Chris Downer

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