3 April 2025

Canopy


As part of the conversion of the former Ham Brewery Tap into Ivy House Full Day Care Nursery, a canopy has been constructed on the south side of the building.

2 April 2025

Clearing in Ham Common Woods


Apologies for the weak pun but this is both a clearing in Ham Common Woods (in the south east corner) and evidence that clearing work has been done there. There is a collection of small stumps in the foreground and a few larger ones between the two large trees still standing.

1 April 2025

A new look for Jaflong


Jaflong in Ashburnham Road has had a major revamp most of which is inside so I cannot show you that, however, it was the external change that alerted me with the grey frontage becoming black, and I can show you that.

Sometime over the years the shop sign changed too, from what it was in 2008, but I failed to record that change at the time, despite visiting there regularly to get a Vegetable Ceylon.


31 March 2025

Roof works in Sudbrook Gardens


Sudbrook Gardens is one of the few hated (by me) no through roads in Ham which I have to walk in and out of a few times every year just to see if anything has changed, and this time something had.

30 March 2025

CYCLE FiRST


CYCLE FiRST has opened where Ashburnham Carpets used to be in, unsurprisingly, Ashburnham Road.

It is always good to see an empty unit come back into use and it is even better when the new shop is something different and when it looks as attractive as this.

29 March 2025

Community Kitchen Garden


I have posted pictures of the little community garden in Back Lane before but not of the small discrete sign that explains what it is.

28 March 2025

Olive trees on Ham Parade


The west side of Ham Parade has been noticeably improved with a line of olive trees in stylish grey pots . There is one between each pair of shops and they stretch along the whole Parade, this is just a few of them.

27 March 2025

ROYAL Dry Cleaners


What used to be K S Dry Cleaners (in Ham Street opposite Grey Court) has morphed into ROYAL Dry Cleaners.

26 March 2025

Concrete base


The concrete has been poured at 33/35 Ham Farm Road revealing the map of the new house (it seems silly to call it an "extension" when so little of the original property remains).