Works at Ham Christian Centre

Ham Christian Centre in Lock Road is having something done to it and as I like to record things being done I took a picture of it. It looks like a relatively small job so I am not expecting it to look very different when it is finished but I will be back to look just in case.

White cottages

Almost directly opposite the new construction site on Craig Road is this pair of slightly worn looking cottages. I had walked past them many times without photographing them but approaching from the alleyway opposite and with the sun almost directly on them this time a picture just had to be taken.

A new building emerges

The small construction site on Craig Road is heavily screened and the only decent gap I could find was along the side of the site, so this is looking south and with Craig Road on the left and Randle Road in the top-right corner.

The site is long and thin and from this position I could only see the emergence of one of the new buildings, the other is off to the left.

New lampposts

Good excuses are always being invented to disrupt the traffic on the main road to Richmond and on this occasion it was the replacing of lampposts.

Pretty corner

I have shared a couple of pictures of this section of Petersham Road before and it is easy to see why; the houses are neat and tidy, as is the paving, and together they make a great setting for the plants.

Buddha

I think this is a statue of Buddha despite it being not in the traditional sitting position because a quick google search found similar smiling statues that do claim to be of him. Not that it really matters, I like the statue for how it looks and not for what it may represent.

I deliberately chose not to zoom in on the statue both to give the scale of it and also to include the nice plant and neat doorstep.

Beside The Copse

I think that the name, if it has one, of the open spaces between the back of Ham House and Sandy Lane is an unsolved mystery so I will continue to call it Horse Field. I usually cross it using the main path, Melancholy Walk, but this time I chose to take the smaller path that follow the edge of The Copse, which is on the left.

It is easy to see why that route attracted me.

Having got to the far corner, by Meadlands Drive, I turned around and took this picture of the route I had taken.

As with most of Ham Lands, there is no evidence of buildings or cars and the only sign that there might be some people around is the well-worn path through the grass. Lovely.

A path through Wates Estate

It was an obviously damp day (remember them?) when I took this and the plants were clearly relishing the water. The burst of exotic greenery on a car-free path made the walk through Wates Estate a simple delight.

Pretty garden

As part of my ongoing exploration of Ham I sometimes approach Burnell Avenue from the river and on this occasion my reward was this display of flowers. I like the way that the colour is spread across the garden, and the window box, so that there is something pretty to look at in every direction.