Ham Photos
Ham Photos is a growing archive of photos of Ham (at the meeting of Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames in south-west London), where I have lived since 1996. It captures the small changes that are easily missed and delights in the unusual, the unexpected and the unnoticed.
26 April 2024
Ham Close Road Closed
The barrier around the start of the Ham Close redevelopment that I saw the start of a few days ago has slowly spread to Woodville Road and now blocks one of the roads into the estate.
25 April 2024
Renovation complete
The renovation of the first house in Clifford Road (Sandy Lane end) looks to be complete and from this angle it does not looks quite reasonable, though there are obvious questions to ask about the colour scheme.
I said "from this angle" deliberately as from here the attached house is all but invisible and the renovations fail when compared to the context. The dark red brick of the house and front wall of its co-joined neighbour is a stark reminder of what houses in this area should look like.
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clifford
23 April 2024
21 April 2024
Comparing posts
When the new posts were installed, in some number, along Church Road, I was surprised that little heed seemed to have been paid to weather proofing with the posts having flat tops and no sign of any treatment, i.e. the tops are a different colour to the sides. That gave me the excuse to go and look at some other posts in the area to see what had been there.
This post in Croft Way the posts are Gold Standard with a fairly steep point to encourage the rain to flow away and a groove just to make it look better.
In Parkleys a different approach is taken with a simpler, and less decorative, V top, despite which the post seems to have weathered badly.
This post just off Riverside Drive is similar to its near-neighbour in Croft Way but has a slightly less steep point.
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signs/posts
20 April 2024
Prom Pop Up
Ham Parade is suffering with a mix of empty and dead units so it is good to see some fresh artwork brightening it up a little.
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19 April 2024
Wet varnish
The shop that was the much missed M&J Hardware had been boarded up since last summer without much sign of it coming back to life so it is good to see the boards removed and work being done on the building.
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18 April 2024
Night lights on a building site
I was surprised and delighted to find these lights on at this house in Sandy Lane. I was out for a night time walk (I have a daily step target to reach) and was not intending to take any photographs until this interestingly lit jumble of construction materials and scaffolding forced me to stop and enjoy the scene.
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sandy_lane
17 April 2024
Lurid green nets
Ham Common has been scarred by the new lurid green cricket nets which have become the most visible thing on the Common to the detriment of everything else.
To show the impact I took this photo from some distance away (the tree intruding on the left shows that I was on the edge of the common) and even though the nets are a small part of the scene the dominate it.
I can only hope that the awfulness of these will has be appreciated by those responsible for them and that they will be replaced quickly.
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ham_common
16 April 2024
Matching houses
Having posted a picture of Vine Cottage with its new roof yesterday I wanted to post a picture of its neighbour, Jude Gate, today to show the similarities between the two. Both have new simple grey slate roofs and it very much looks as if Jude Gate is being painted the same colour.
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