Trolleys 980, 981 and 982

Started the day with a stroll up to the hospital for a spot of blood testing, checking up on the drainage pond at the bottom of St. Margaret Drive on the way. No water as seen from the usual angle.

And none seen if viewed from the top, right in the first snap.

While on the way back into town I was able to inspect the building which presumably started life as a substantial house, then housed nuns and then did time as a public house eatery called the Hay Wain.  A place which we ate at once or twice, I forget why, but not to much satisfaction. At some point a hotel, Epsom Central from Premier Inn was built out back. Hotel still up and running, but public house firmly shut with some of the paint work looking a bit tired.

[to be]

But there was a planning notice saying the Premier Inn were hoping to make changes to this listed building. 

[as is]

All looks harmless enough to me, with not much change to the outside of the existing building, but no doubt the heritage people will want to make their mark. While you can read all about it for yourself at reference 25/00204/LBA.

I don't think I had ever noticed the present extension to the old building, tacked on top right in the snap above.

After which I captured the first trolley of the day, just inside the front gate of what appeared to be a small block of flats, probably the pair of houses built as Abele Villas in 1898. There were actually two trolleys, but South Street is not the best place to be wheeling two trolleys at once.

My second was outside T K Maxx.

While my third, rather later in the day, was from the Kokoro Passage.

All three, medium small trolleys from the M&S food hall.

PS: asking Bing about the name of the building from which I captured the first of these trolleys, Bing tells me the Abelé is the name of an old brand of champagne, to be found at reference 2, which seems a bit unlikely for a name chosen by a small builder. Also that it is another name for the white poplar of reference 3, Populus alba, which seems slightly more likely. Perhaps there were some in the vicinity. Wikipedia offers various other possibilities, a couple of them places in Europe, none of which seem more likely. The builder was a late nineteenth century immigrant from Lithuania? Or the child of same?

Google adds various other possibilities to the mix, including the property company at reference 4. Which fits, except that the dates are all wrong.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/09/trolleys-976-977-978-and-979.html.

Reference 2: https://www.abele1757.com/.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus_alba. Leaves rather like the shimmering leaves of the aspens. The wood was used by early Italian painters for their panels. For that, for example, of the 'Mona Lisa'.

Reference 4: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13098729/filing-history. 

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