The morning circuit started in Station Approach with a couple of small removal vans from Ede's, one of which had pulled away by the time that the snap above was taken.
Ede's of reference 2 clearly run by another registration plate nut, in the way of First Line Recovery, with both vans sporting EDE plates. Not to be confused, as I had been, with Ely's of Wimbledon.
A proper department store, with tram lines, which might once have had vans too.
My first trolley of the day was, unusually, a small trolley from B&Q, captured in the Kokoro Passage. Not Wanzl in the way of the other stores, but made in China and supplied from the Cowpen Industrial Estate in Billingham. The same people as noticed at reference 4. While down near Portsmouth they have Cowplain. Presumably both once places where cattle were penned up prior to onward transmission - to the abattoir or wherever. In the case of Cowplain to feed the navy down in the harbour.
A fine show just finishing in Victoria Place, I think a handkerchief tree, the same as I used to pass in Hunters Road in the days of Jubilee Way.
A flower head. Searching the archive does not produce any handkerchiefs. Google Images says catalpa of reference 5, which is indeed the tree of Hunters Road. There is a handkerchief tree, as explained at reference 7, but I can't find one in the archive, so I have no idea just presently what brought that name to mind.
Pushing on, the Screwfix whitebeam.
The second circuit saw another medium small trolley from the M&S food hall, captured in the Kokoro Passage.
Followed by, for once, a large one from the creationists in East Street. M&S seemed a better option than Sainsbury's: probably getting a bit tired by then and slightly less far to walk.
The new streel frame forging ahead in what used to be the Majestic building. Steel delivered by a very smart looking wagon from Thirsk. Wagon rather clean considering how far it had travelled. Steel all pre-drilled and ready to go.
Lots of white flowers on the Meadway roundabout, but no pyramid orchids.
Some kind of convolvulus? Google Images says field bindweed, as opposed to the hedge bindweed I have been noticing recently. I get that one more or less right!
Home to M&S lardons, as previously noticed.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/07/trolleys-902-903-and-904.html.
Reference 2: https://edes.com/.
Reference 3: https://www.elyswimbledon.co.uk/pages/about-elys.
Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/02/trolleys-776-777-and-778.html.
Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa.
Reference 6: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/07/indian-bean-tree.html.
Reference 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidia_involucrata.
Reference 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulus_arvensis.
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