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.
29 August 2011
Exit Expertravel
Expertravel, one of the stalwarts of Ham Parade, has closed. I remember it, as used it, when it was just Expertravel before it added the World Choice brand and the garish logo that went with it.
Sadly I never got around to taking a close-up of the shop before it closed but you can see the Man City blue colouring on the far right of the picture that I took of Ham Parade in February 2007.
Other vacant properties have filled quickly and I hope that the haste with which this one has been stripped and painted means that we will have a new tenant soon.
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ham_parade,
shops
27 August 2011
Stacks of scaffolding
The builder's banner suggests that this is merely a loft extension but the amount of scaffolding that surrounds this house in Northweald Lane implies a lot more. It has cocooned the house for a couple of weeks now and the butterfly has yet to emerge. I hope that it is worth the wait when it does.
24 August 2011
Grass and flowers
Another look at some tall grasses and flowers in Ham Lands simply because they are always worth looking at, just like a child's smile.
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ham_lands
19 August 2011
Green field
I try, but with mixed success, to show Ham in balance; the old and the new, the good and the bad, the serious and the frivolous, the bricks and the grass. Now it's time to show a little more of the grass.
Ham Lands is the wilderness that defines Ham and lifts it above other city villages. Breaking through the cordon of trees that ring most of it brings unexpected pleasures such as large fields where the grasses and flowers are allowed to grow tall.
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ham_lands
11 August 2011
Media circle
Annoyingly I read via one of the local newspapers' on-line services (I read them all by RSS, Twitter and Facebook) that this image has been appearing across Richmond but I cannot find the story again otherwise I would include a link to it.
This example popped-up on the narrow road to Petersham Nurseries but is not connected to the advertisement for cafe that appears above it.
The timing suggests that the message has something to do with phone hacking and newspapers, but that is just my guess.
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art/design,
petersham_rd
7 August 2011
Beside the prison
The future of Latchmere House is uncertain now that the Prison Service is moving out and selling the site and while it is fairly safe to say that whatever replaces the prison buildings will be an improvement the open land between it and Latchmere Lane is another matter.
The prison is there behind the wall but the trees hide it well and the grass before it disguises the nature of the area. This is a pretty spot and needs to stay that way.
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latchmere,
parks/spaces
3 August 2011
School works
Grey Court School in Ham Street is also taking advantage of the Summer break to do some work on its buildings. This former grand residence (and home of the future Cardinal Newman) is now part of the school that surrounds it, though I have no idea what they use it for.
This is another building site that I will be watching with interest over the next few weeks to see what emerges from behind the scaffolding and the stacked portacabins.
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construction/works,
ham_street,
lodges/manors,
newman,
schools
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