Trolley 617

I had marked down a Sainsbury's trolley on the Screwfix side of the underpass, pushed into the margins and thought to capture it yesterday - to find that someone had beaten me to it.

But I carried on, completing the Kiln Lane circuit in a clockwise direction, rather than my usual anti-clockwise.

Noted the large collection of trolleys at the back of the car park there. An overspill area? Where they put the ones needing a spot of attention? At this range at least they appeared to be in good enough condition to be returned to service.

While the ivy leaves did not achieve the size of those noticed at reference 1, at the other end of the path which runs along the other side of the fence, middle left in the snap above. Maybe a maximum of four inches, point to point, rather than the six inches there. And this position had the benefit of a lot more sun. So what is the relevant difference?

Out by way of Fairview Road and headed into Epsom and, not finding anything on the way, thought to try Station Approach, where I found a couple of trolleys at the back of what used to be the goods entrance and car park on top of the Sainsbury's there, now T.K. Maxx. One of the two had acquired some cement on the undercarriage and needed proper cleaning, but the other one was OK and has now been returned.

After which I returned home to a fine lunch of beef stew with inner dumplings and outer cabbage, with baked apples for dessert.

Plus, from a correspondent, a tribute to the resilience of mobile phone technology, able to cope with the rigours of the north Atlantic. Must have been near enough Newfoundland to get a signal. Contained in a file about a fiftieth of the size of a snap from my mobile phone.

I am reminded that I often see people taking snaps one handed, more or less impossible on my phone. One more thing to be looked into.

PS: it occurred to me later that, before East Street was built up in the middle of the last century, that there might well have been quite a good view from Fairview Road down into Epsom, it being more or less at the top of the gentle rise out of Epsom, before dropping down into Ewell. Inspection of the Ordnance Survey map - gmaps being good at position but not seeming to be into heights - suggests that this is indeed the case - with the junction of Fairview Road (dashed green) with East Street/A24 (red) being something above 50m to Epsom town's 45m at the Hook Road rail bridge. Confused by buildings, but it is just about possible to follow the contour lines, at 5m intervals, about - and right click gives an altitude reading. If I had been asked to guess, I would have said there was more of a hill, more than 5m. So clearly best to check.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/01/trolley-616.html.

Reference 2: https://www.brignaud.com/. Another source for the mobile phone tribute.

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