This being a successful Sunday morning circuit, starting with a large trolley from M&S, just outside the station entrance in Station Approach.
The next two from underneath Hudson House, just off Station Way. Scored as one as they fitted together well enough to be pushed across the market square.
Back to Station Approach for the third.
With my fourth coming from the inner depths of the car park underneath Hudson House. Complete with rat traps and what appeared to be an enclosure for collecting debris from winos and other homeless people.
A little tired after all these trips back and forth across the market square, I opted for a short route home, half way up West Hill then cutting through Court Recreation Ground to West Hill Avenue.
Past West Hill Court, once a facility for older people, now repurposed for younger people by the Rosebery Housing Association. Except that, unbeknown to me until this afternoon, Rosebery had been taken into Town and Country Housing at reference 2 some time ago, with Rosebery operations only being rebranded last year. With Town and Country looking to be part of the Peabody Group, presumably the same Peabody has quite a lot of large blocks of flats, some quite old, in central London. For whom see reference 3, from where the snap above is lifted.
Peabody Central appears run blocks and estates just in the GLC area, so it is not clear whether the figures given above include the wider south east. I suspect not. While the word 'Epsom' appears just once in the 126 pages of the annual report at reference 4.
Searching for 'Surrey' turned up the clarification above on page 61. Peabody pushed out into the southern home counties...
It would be interesting to know whether moving a large part of what was locally accountable council housing operations into the likes of what is in effect a large corporation has been an improvement. But how on earth does one find out in the absence of access to someone on the inside, with knowledge of both regimes?
A bit further on, back with botany, with this fine conifer, perhaps a leylandii, with an art stump to its right.
Close up. Google Images not very definite, but includes Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) among its suggestions for both snaps. Certainly a cypress of some sort. I have not found out how to submit both in the one query.
Reference 5 supportive, but not conclusive.
Home to a lunch which included a Waitrose pineapple for dessert. Entirely satisfactory despite being very green on the outside.
Drew a blank on the trolley front later on in the afternoon, but I did find this useful flag for a barber's shop. Maybe it will come in as a prop for a role-playing game for young ladies?
Quite cheaply made, so I don't know how long it would last for real.
Note the Taoist water fountain bowl to the left, previously noticed. Bronze. Aka singing bowl. About time I gave it another go.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/trolleys-840-841-and-842.html.
Reference 2: https://tch.org.uk/2024/09/24/welcoming-rosebery-residents-to-tch/.
Reference 3: https://www.peabodygroup.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/our-leadership/.
Reference 4: https://www.peabodygroup.org.uk/media/00sbqsns/peabody-group-ar-2024.pdf.
Reference 5: https://www.treeguideuk.co.uk/monterey-cypress/.
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