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spotted from my bedroom window at about 6:00 this morning - I think they must have been above Carshalton
Frank Dickinson's self-build living room with pine dado, carved timber joists, herringbone parquet and stencilled curtains
Arriva's T167 turns from Pound Street onto North Street in Carshalton on the 157 to Morden. The pond here has recently been drained for renovation work.
Field's Surrey Series No.111. Mailed in 1905. Carshalton Park House was built by George Taylor (a sugar plantation owner and slave trader) in 1784-5. It was demolished in 1927, the last of the Taylor squires having been ruined by "fast women and slow horses" according to village gossip. Most of the park was sold to housing developers from 1892 onwards. What remains today as Carshalton Park is about 10% of the original area. [Ref: Prof. Michael Wilks: "At the Source of the Wandle"]
Carshalton, Surrey.
The Grotto and ornamental canal were built in 1724 at the location of one of the sources of the River Wandle. With the lowering of the water table in the London basin, it has been dried up for most of my life.
However, the recent rain has refilled it to quite an amazing degree, for the first time in fifteen years according the local paper.
Sony A7 + Canon FDn 24mm f/2.8.
A very pleasant pub.
Address: 48 West Street.
Owner: Punch Taverns/48 West Street (website); Bass (former).
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Vintage postcard postmarked 1904, H R Grubb's Series (printer in North End, Croydon). View across Upper Pond to All Saints Parish Church. Also depicting the house Queen's Well which was demolished in 1963. London Borough of Sutton.