Trolley 949

Having failed to find a trolley on the market side of town, out the back of Waitrose to see what I could do on the other side - where it looked as if the gas men were winding down since my last visit. But there was this trench, maybe something more than a foot deep, with no chalk in site. Loose looking brown stuff with a lot of flint scattered through it. So there must be some chalk in the vicinity.

It may be, of course, that, the ground at the back of the Ashley Centre was much disturbed during its building, and that of the 'inner by-pass' adjacent.

In the event, drew a blank in the various car parks I visited behind the High Street and around the Town Hall, usually good for one or two.

The once grand & proud Epsom Institute, properly the 'Epsom Technical Institute and School of Art', once home to children's art classes, now home to orthodontists and psychotherapists. The first principal was William Henry Osmond, 1865-1943, sometime artist, presently invisible on the Internet, and part of the institute split off to become what is now the creationists of refence 2. One wonders what Osborne would make of what goes on there now? See also references 3 and 4.

Round the back, back of Institute right. Bigger than you might think from the front.

A bit further in, where we have the back of the shops at the bottom of Upper High Street. With the road around the back being called Depot Road. Presumably some long lost depot.

Onto East Street, where there was more steel from up north going into the Majestic Site. Another smart wagon (as they say north of Watford). 

Johnson at the seaside, lifted from reference 5.

Following the visit to the hibiscuses of Wisley, clearly needed to check up on the Rose of Sharon of the town end of Middle Lane. Clearly a plant which has not got its petals under control.

Litter behind the fence at the Screwfix passage. Presumably very nearly all the work of young males: bravado, laziness, drunkenness or all three?

Picked up what might be the last blackberry of the season nearby. A little overripe, but not bad.

Tried Google Images again on the phlox at the end of reference 6, using the close-up above. Today he seems rather keen on wild sweet William (Saponaria officinalis), to be found at reference 7.

My second circuit took me up West Hill again, this time to notice that Hyrox are starting to be a bit more prominent. More recently, I have noticed their advertising plastics tied to railings. I have taken a look at reference 7, where there is the inevitable shop, but I have to work out what their relationship with CrossFit is or what you actually do if you join up - apart from flashing the plastic.

And so to the only trolley of the day, captured underneath Hudson House and returned to the M&S food hall.

This being the second circuit, I took a shorter road home, that is to say down Hook Road - where I was able to admire the nearly completed forecourt for the Mosque, properly the Epsom & Ewell Islamic Society. Neat enough, but a bit bleak, with no provision for plants at all that I could see. At least on our estate, most of the people who pave over their front gardens to make parking spaces, leave a bit of space for the plants to soften things up a bit. And I wonder how many parking spaces  this front garden will amount to? Rather less, I would think, than the number of people attending. Furthermore, I would not have thought you would want the front cluttered up with cars and parking activities on service days. Maybe the spaces are reserved for the society elders, who are expected to arrive early and get their cars parked before the rush starts.

PS: looking again at the sweet William above, aka soapwort, the flower for phlox at Wikipedia does not look right at all, although I dare say there are others. But trying Google Images again with a new zoom (right), he sticks with soapwort but he also turns up the image above (left), much more like my image. In the jargon of flower keepers, a double. I go with soapwort for the present.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/trolley-948.html.

Reference 2: https://www.uca.ac.uk/.

Reference 3: https://eehe.org.uk/28916/technicalinstitute/.

Reference 4: https://www.surreytherapypractice.com/. 'Surrey Therapy Practice is a Private Therapy Clinic that has been providing a wide range of emotional and wellbeing therapies for all ages since 2017'.

Reference 5: https://johnsonhaulage.com/.

Reference 6: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/08/trolleys-945-946-and-947.html.

Reference 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saponaria_officinalis.

Reference 8: https://hyrox.com/.

Reference 9: https://www.eeis.co.uk/.

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