Trolley 427

This trolley, from Wilko, was captured somewhere along East Street, on the third leg of a Ewell Village clockwise, but I couldn't at first find out exactly where. Maybe the street markings had changed since the Street View camera went by, but I didn't think so. Reduced to scanning the whole of East Street, from the Ewell Village turning all the way back to Epsom, I finally turned it up at the turning into the Rainbow Leisure Centre, the old swimming pool, just past the telephone exchange. Much nearer Epsom than I had thought.

I do remember that it was a lot easier to push the trolley (on its return to Wilko) in the places where the pavement has recently been relaid than it had been. A much smoother surface, much better suited to the small wheels of the trolley. Much the same size, it occurs to me now, as those of baby buggies, so perhaps the mums who push them along East Street know all about pavement surfaces too.

Got to the market place at Epsom to be puzzled at the lack of market action, eventually remembering that it was Friday, not a recognised market day, rather than Saturday. Losing track of day of the week seems to come with advancing years and the absence of the weekly rhythm of work. However, I did come across a mobile cinema which turns out from reference 2 to have been lovingly restored from the 1960's - a time when one could see some point in having a mobile cinema in what appears to be a converted single decker bus - the sort of bus that turns up in Agatha on ITV3 from time to time. Rather less point now, except from the point of view of nostalgia and heritage.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/08/trolley-426.html.

Reference 2: https://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/.