Football on Ham Common

Ham Common hosts football games on Sundays at the moment. Last weekend there were two organised games on at the same time, either side of the avenue of trees leading to Ham House. This is the game on the north side with the New Inn in the background. In the foreground is one of the new trees planted to fill gaps in the avenue mentioned earlier.

Ham Common trees

This line of trees is along the south-west side of Ham Common.

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This is possibly the most dangerous parking that I have ever seen in Ham! Behind the parked car you can see the two lanes of north-bound traffic that are now faced with a rather sudden, and unexpected, reduction to one lane. Madness.

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This is almost as bad as parking gets on Ham Parade. The double yellow lines are there as this is where two lanes of north-bound traffic filter into one, often jostling for position to do so. Clearly a very dangerous place to park, but some people ....

Thames Young Mariners

Hidden in the wilds of Ham Lands is the Thames Young Mariners sailing centre. This photo was taken from the towpath which is the only place that you can see it from. TYM splits Ham Lands into two parts and to get round it you either have to go on the river path or up to Riverside Drive.

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This 4x4 with trailer is parked partially on a bus stop (with a 65 bus approaching) and partially in the zig-zag zone for the pedestrian crossing.

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The white lines mark the parking bays and you would have thought that a small car like this could fit easily into a single bay.

Hardwicke Road flats

There are not that many blocks of flats in Ham, and most of those are clustered together in the middle, but these are in Hardwicke Road. This picture is taken from the footpath from Teddington Lock.

Ham House

These railings are in the front-left corner of the grounds of Ham House (next to the bridle path) and I guess that they are to deter people from trying to climb in from the ditch.