Sports Kit & Household Laundry in Kings Park, Bournemouth

Kings Park is the area around one of Bournemouth’s largest parks, between Springbourne, Boscombe and Littledown in BH7. The park got its name on 20 May 1902, when the council renamed two commons to mark the coronation of Edward VII — one became King’s Park, the other Queen’s Park — only for the coronation to be postponed when the King went down with appendicitis. Sport is what the park is known for: an athletics track, a cricket field with a pavilion café, indoor and outdoor bowling greens, a skate park and a regular parkrun. With all that on the doorstep, kit is part of the weekly wash in plenty of homes — and we collect it with everything else.

Where in Kings Park we collect

We cover the streets all around the park across BH7 — Littledown Avenue and Harewood Avenue to the north, Newlands Road and King’s Park Drive to the east and south, and the roads towards Ashley Road on the Springbourne side. Littledown, Boscombe, Pokesdown, Springbourne and Queens Park are on the same rounds, so a boundary address is covered too.

Dean Court, home of AFC Bournemouth, stands in the park. The Cooper-Dean family gave the land, an old gravel pit, to Boscombe FC in 1910, and the club played on King’s Park itself until the ground was ready that December. It was rebuilt in 2001 with the pitch turned ninety degrees and today holds 12,357 spectators.

What gets collected most around here

Alongside the everyday wash — clothes, towels and bed linen — kit is the thing to mention here: football shirts and shorts, training tops, tracksuits, cricket whites and gym gear, washed, dried and returned folded. Duvets too big for a home machine, shirts for ironing and dry cleaning travel in the same collection.

Kings Park books through the same form as the rest of our Bournemouth service, and local clubs can ask for commercial rates for a regular kit collection.