Two traffic islands

The two new traffic islands in Riverside Drive have been fully completed and are so new that the keep left signs are still in place.

Against my expectations formed during their construction, the two islands look identical which obviously makes sense.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ROYAL Dry Cleaners

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