GWEN Battrick’s picture of Ensbury Park Road, Bournemouth, printed on March 14 brought back memories for several readers.

Roma Wright (nee Wells) lived in Oswald Road, close to Ensbury Park Road, and attended Winton and Moordown School when it was in Coronation Avenue. Her husband lived in nearby Naseby Road. She said on the left of the picture was Olive’s taxi business who specialised in weddings and had a garage behind the house for its cars.

In the background on the right is the awning of Rickard’s the outfitters and Abbott and Son the estate agent on Wimborne Road, adjacent to Ensbury Park Road.

In the 1920s Roma’s father was a baker working at Gerald’s Bakery on the far right, just off the picture.

As there are wooden telegraph poles, gas lamps and iron railings in front of houses on the left, the picture is quite old. The railings were taken away to help the war effort and not replaced, much to her mother’s dismay.

Peter Smith of Boscombe was born in a house on Ensbury Park Road in 1930 when it was called Muccleshall Road. He remembers at the time there being houses on the right which are absent in the picture.

Horse droppings in the road give an indication of horse-drawn deliveries before trams and other vehicles were in common use so he thinks the picture dates before the Great War, around 1907-1910.

Emma Grocott who lives in Ensbury Park Road said the buildings are still there today, some may have been adapted or have had extensions. She believes the first two houses on the left were built no later than 1902. She has lived in the second house, now cream coloured, for 33 years.