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.

7 April 2026

Ramp

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When the island in Ham Common Pond was rebuilt two years ago I was concerned about how high the island stood above the water and it seems t...
6 April 2026

Dangerous poster

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Posters are regularly put up on the railings next to the pedestrian crossing on Ham Parade and most people know that they should be facing t...
5 April 2026

Some progress at Grey Court

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It has been a month or so since I lasted posted a picture of the new building at Grey Court and while there has not been much change in that...
4 April 2026

16 Upper Ham Road

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The Hand and Flower has been closed for some months with little visible evidence of this other that no lights and no customers but the arriv...
3 April 2026

Ferrymoor tree

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This end of Ferrymoor may be scruffy but the tree helps to make up for that. The garages in the bottom left have been doomed for over two ye...
2 April 2026

Two empty units

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While the unit that used to be Rowleys seems to have found a new owner at one end of Ham Parade at the far end two units have become empty. ...
1 April 2026

Rowleys replaced

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It is almost a year (somehow!) since Rowleys on Ham Parade closed and now it looks as though the unit has found a new occupier. That should...
31 March 2026

New flower bed

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The corner where Ashburnham Road meets Broughton Avenue has always been an attractive and well managed space; I posted a picture of some of ...
30 March 2026

2 Ashfield Close

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Cars parked on the drive had thwarted all of my previous attempts to take a full-width picture of 2 Ashfield Close following its extensive r...
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Matthew Rees
Born in Leeds, raised in Weymouth and now settled in Ham straddling the Kingston-Richmond border in SW London. I love walking, drama, architecture, politics, pubs and reading stories told through words and pictures (some people call them comics).
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