New flower bed at Ham Cross

The patch of land at Ham Cross has been looking for a purpose for years and may now be getting one through a flower bed. I hope that it gets a bench or two so that people can sit and enjoy it, the only bench there at the moment faces the traffic for reasons that escape me.

I also timed this photo to capture the arrival of some substantial shelving at Ham Food Shelter that had just arrived on the truck on the far left of the picture.

Growing house

In February I said that this it looked as though something substantial is about to happen to this house in Riverside Drive but I did not expect something this substantial. A couple of months later and the brick walls have spread sideways, forwards and upwards. I am pretty sure that they have gone backwards too but that view is now blocked.

My concern, and it is an obvious one, is that the modified house will not fit in comfortably with its neighbours in a long section of road where the houses used to look all the same.

New hut for Petersham & Ham Sea Scouts

This view of the new hut for Petersham &  Ham Sea Scouts shows the nice way that it is broken up into three different sections, with two different colours, so that it has little visible impact despite its overall size.

VN07 GLY on the pavement AND on double yellows

All the other cars parked in Camel Grove were happy to park on the street, where they belong, but the driver of VN07 GLY decided to obstruct the pavement and to ignore the double-yellow lines.

Building and demolishing

Work is well underway on this house in Petersham Road. A new wall is rising on the right and around the back of the property and the two garages at the front have been demolished leaving V shaped scars.

Gap in the fence

I had last walked behind the German School, it is their fence on the right, a couple of weeks previously and then I had had to clamber over the stile to get to Douglas Footpath. Since then a section of the fence has disappeared removing any barrier between the two paths.

This land belongs to 235

This bleached, and almost unreadable sign, warns that the little triangle of land on Petersham Road just north of Sandy Lane belongs to 235 Petersham Road. I am sure that the sign had some colour once but I think that it looks better without, unless you actually want people to be able to read it.

Red plastic barriers

The gas main around Lammas Road and Burnell Avenue is being upgraded and a lot of bright plastic is being used to do so. 

 

There are so many bright red plastic barriers in the area that it is hard to see anything else.

Watch this space

Something is coming to the Gate House Garden on the corner of Ham Common and Upper Ham Road and a hole has been dug ready to receive it. The big clue is on the stick which has written on it "Village sign here".