Trolley 446

For a change from the Sainbury's trolleys one usually gets there, a Waitrose trolley from the creationists' accommodation block in East Street. Somebody else must have dealt with the two Sainsbury's trolleys that were there last time I passed.

I was impressed by the large yellow pipe left, presumably something to do with heating or air conditioning.

And I was rewarded with a £1 coin from the handle lock when I returned the trolley to Waitrose.

For a change, I headed up South Street, past a new branch of the baker we use from time to time in Craddocks Avenue in Ashtead. A street which struggles a bit given all the traffic and it will be interesting to see how they do. From reference 2 it seems that there was a change of ownership and or management in 2019, which I had not known about. All the more reason to take a closer look. 

There is also another new bakery shop at the East Street end of Ewell Village. Another one to be investigated. Sadly, the main business of bakeries these days seems to be cakes and sandwiches, rather than bread, so I don't suppose the large white loaves will be anything special. Nothing like those which were fairly easy to get fifty years ago.

Onto the White Horse now the Lava Lounge, where I saw a claim that it had been founded in 1712. The building certainly looks quite old. A place I used occasionally when it was the White Horse, presumably the watering hole for the medicos and others from the hospital next door, back in the days when it was thought OK for such people to smoke and drink a great deal.

Back home, off to the Scottish map service, where I find that the White Horse was certainly there in the middle of the 19th century. The same map also shows a brewery, somewhere handy to where Rosebery Park is now. A park named for the chap who was PM towards the end of the 19th century. While in the middle of the same century, I suppose every self respecting town had at least one brewery and every village a maltster (as is to be found in 'Far from the Madding Crowd').

While I think the workhouse just below the White Horse has long gone, but occupied the site which Guild Living now wants to use for a high rise senior complex. See reference 4. No doubt the heritage people are working themselves into a lather about it. Which reminds me that some of them were hanging about the empty building at the bottom of Station Approach, clutching paperwork, which a developer wants to demolish in order to move the debate on a bit. The gable roundels are, I read somewhere, of special interest. Not doubt a shame to lose both gable and roundels, but there is a limit to how much old stuff we can cope with. Councils just as much as the homes of seniors.

Back at the White Horse, I had intended to cross over the railway line and head for home up Stamford Green Road, past the Coopers and the Cricketers. But I took the wrong turning, passing to the east of Rosebery School, passing a great many houses and ending up outside Enterprise Cars. No new Wellingtonias, but noticing on the way that the large building which was once the home of the British Legion Club is now home to a substantial nursery - so providing facilities for working mums has become more important than providing cheap booze for old codgers. Times are changing. See reference 3.

So not lost, but not quite where I intended to be.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/11/trolley-445.html.

Reference 2: https://www.craddocksbakery.com/.

Reference 3: https://www.shapesdaynursery.co.uk/.

Reference 4: https://www.guildliving.com/.