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Rossmore have changed little during that time. A few older cottage-style dwellings can still
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The area expanded into other areas such as
Rossmore and later Alderney, which are sometimes considered to be part of Parkstone. Although most houses in the district are owner-occupied, council houses were also built in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. The Trinidad and Bourne Estates are typical examples
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Trinidad First School for children aged 4–8 years old who progressed to
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Parkstone includes large areas of smaller artisan housing, the shopping district along Ashley Road and the parish church of St. John's, Heatherlands. There are larger properties, however, and the views from this higher part of the suburb across
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be found as reminders of when the area was agricultural, including several pairs of 'Lady
Wimborne' houses: yellow-brick cottages with steep gables built by the Canford Estate, whose lands stretched from
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are quite remarkable. Many photographs taken over the years from the
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