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Taken in Purley, a town a couple of miles down the road from me while on one of my many bike trips in the area. Shot with the very capable CZJ Pancolor 50/1.4 which can do the graphic stuff as well as the soft and creative stuff. Note this is not the 'stuck wide open' Pentacon but another one that I own. (Yes, I know, I have too many!)
I'm not entirely sure what this place does exactly, I'm sure someone will tell me. It has lots of electrical bits and pieces sticking in the air and it's protected by high fences all round.
This image is a bit difficult to explain. The area nearest the camera is a covered car park, the ceiling of which is the grooved panels at the top half of the frame. I'm looking into an office of some kind but with only these high windows allowing viewing access into it. On the wall of the office are these two downlights which is what attracted me to the composition. A bit of an unusual choice for a photo I know but there was something about it that I liked.
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Challenged to do a night picture on the facebook 52 for 2022 meant I actually had to go out at night and leaving it until the last minute proved fortunate as it was raining cats and dogs with great reflections through the wet windscreen. I didn't get out of the car!
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EWS pair 37238 + 37046 negotiate Factory Jcn with 6Y94 09.36 Purley-Cliffe 'Brett' hoppers on 25/11/98.
Purley Way, Croydon. The site of the original London Airport, closed in 1959. The first in the world to have purpose built air traffic control and a terminal building but, with the coming of larger jets, the runway could not be developed any further so business transferred to Heathrow and Gatwick. Part of the grade II listed terminal building and control tower now houses a museum but the rest of the site has been repurposed. The de Havilland Heron aircraft mounted outside represents the last plane to use the airport in September 1959.
I didn't manage to get up to Croham Hurst this morning due to pressure of work, but here's another shot from yesterday, showing a couple admiring the view of the beautiful suburbs ahem of South Croydon and Purley and further away, the North Downs.
Until the late 19th century horses and cattle grazed at Purley Oaks Farm, which retained an ancient barn and several of the trees that had given the estate its name. Brighton Road school was built in 1873 at a time when the area was still undeveloped.
Purley Oaks station opened on the line to Brighton in 1899 and the farm was offered for sale at auction in 1903. The conditions of sale ensured that houses were built for the professional classes and the first properties were occupied within two years. Servants and live-in maids were the norm but the need for garages was not recognised at that time.
Much of the surrounding land remained open and in 1916 James Relf established a market garden near the station.
After the First World War the area was almost entirely built up with suburban housing. Brighton Road school was renamed Purley Oaks in 1922 and rebuilt in 1940.
Capella Court (also known as the Royal Oak office block) is a local landmark, built in the mid-1960s on an island site on the Brighton Road.
Until the late 19th century horses and cattle grazed at Purley Oaks Farm, which retained an ancient barn and several of the trees that had given the estate its name. Brighton Road school was built in 1873 at a time when the area was still undeveloped.
Purley Oaks station opened on the line to Brighton in 1899 and the farm was offered for sale at auction in 1903. The conditions of sale ensured that houses were built for the professional classes and the first properties were occupied within two years. Servants and live-in maids were the norm but the need for garages was not recognised at that time.
Much of the surrounding land remained open and in 1916 James Relf established a market garden near the station.
After the First World War the area was almost entirely built up with suburban housing. Brighton Road school was renamed Purley Oaks in 1922 and rebuilt in 1940.
Capella Court (also known as the Royal Oak office block) is a local landmark, built in the mid-1960s on an island site on the Brighton Road.
Seen in the Purley area, and to see any early Metro's now in London is a rare event, this was in show condition too.
Seen in the Purley area, slowly rusting into the ground...currently SORN, there were a few other cars on the driveway which i'll try and go back for someday, reg was CJN588T
This one actually makes me smile. I was out in a local town shooting a roll of film through a camera that I intended on selling just to make sure everything worked. There were some stairs going up to a parking lot on top of a building and I was looking at the stairs to see if there was a picture there to be had when these two young lads bustled past on their way up the stairs. They had noticed my camera and when they got to the top of the stairs one of them turned around and shouted down - did I want to take his picture. I laughed and said sure and he gave me that pose and "attitude" before laughing and running off.
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Bergger Pancro 400 B&W film
405's extra school service (formerly known as 405D) has finished running for the year, along with every other school service. However, when this particular service returns in January, it'll be renumbered to 645, with an extension from West Croydon to Waddon Marsh, meaning that this was the last 405 in service blinded to West Croydon. Here is DW307 (LJ10CVP) at Purley Cross, about to start its final journey.
Making an impressive sight (and sound) in the evening sunshine, 'Crompton' D6515 (33 012) powers through Purley heading back to Tonbridge with UK Railtours 'Curvy Weaver' railtour.
With the temperature topping 30 degrees in London, I'm sure all windows would have been open as far as possible on the ex Southern Region 4-TC unit, which now sports an eye-catching London Transport red livery.
ENX7 has found life after the 313 as a resident at Thornton Heath. Its seen this afternoon on Lower Addiscombe Road just after Addiscimbe Tram Stop as it heads for Purley
Having had a class 37 pass through my way on Christmas Eve, working a test train to Derby, it was great to have two class 37s working just under a week later.
UK Railtours ran 'A Simply Awkward Week Adventure' Peterborough based tour to the Caterham, Tattenham Corner, East Grinstead and Uckfield branches. The tour was 'top and tailed' by class 37 locomotives 37 407 and 37 418 each end of a rake of MkII coaches.
Two youngsters watch the tour head south through Purley Oaks on it's leg of the tour from Victoria to Caterham. I'm not too sure what the 'Highland Enterprise' headboard was all about?
7O44 Hanwell Bridge Loop to Purley Foster Yeoman. Class 59 in Aggregate livery heads towards London with a loaded stone train seen here passing through Ealing Broadway Station.
Southern Railways, Merchant Navy Class No.35028 'Clanline' leads 1Z83 Shalford - London Victoria VSOE Luncheon through Purley Oaks.
Go-Ahead London (Metrobus) 950 (YN07 EXK) a Scania Omnidekka, see at Purley operating a 455 service to Redhill on the 19th of August 2017.
After a Sunday morning of heavy rain, the sun broke through just as the 14.12 hourly shuttle from Tattenham Corner arrives at it's Purley destination.
The first week of the Rail Head Treatment Train season is over and the Tonbridge West Yard based locomotives and tank wagons are still clean.
This cleanliness will not last, and over the coming weeks a heavy layer of grime will build up as the RHTT workings spray the rails to blast away the leaves on the line.
Retro 'Dutch liveried' electro-diesel 73 119 'Paul Taylor' heads through Purley Oaks station with working 3W90. Nice to see the last two numbers of the Train ID appearing in the headcode panel.
Having had a class 37 pass through my way on Christmas Eve, working a test train to Derby, it was great to have two class 37s working just under a week later.
UK Railtours ran 'A Simply Awkward Week Adventure' Peterborough based tour to the Caterham, Tattenham Corner, East Grinstead and Uckfield branches. The tour was 'top and tailed' by class 37 locomotives 37 407 and 37 418 each end of a rake of MkII coaches.
37 407 'Blackpool Tower' is seen at Purley, waiting to head down the Tattenham Corner branch.