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Another view of Russell Hill in Purley, taken from the other end of my lorry from Image Believe it or not, merely walking from one end of my load to another took me into a different grid square! I had to poke the camera between the roof trusses to take this, which is what you can see on either side of the shot. The site I was delivering to is just visible on the left.

For anyone who is interested, here's a shot of the lorry I stood on to get Image and Image It was a bit of a job to get this to the site, as I recall: the entrance to the road is not obvious and I missed it first time around, and then when I did find it it was so steep that I gouged a groove out of the road surface with the rear corner of the trailer as I took the corner! Still, it all makes for an interesting life, and "the mail must go through", as the song says. All three of these pics were shot on film with my Nikon F3.

In front of the Public library, on a green at the junction of Foxley Lane and Banstead Road.

An indifferent photograph, which I felt was worth including as it's taken from an unusual viewpoint: I was standing about fifteen feet off the ground on top of the lorry load of roof trusses I'd just brought down from Hereford! The cab of the lorry is just visible bottom right.

The shops shown in Image appear here, together with the junction at the top where Purley Way meets Foxley Lane and Pampisford Road. Russell Hill Road, here part of what is in effect a large and busy roundabout, continues up the leafy hill as a quiet residential road.

On Banstead Road.

On the A23 Purley Way heading into Purley. Part of the Wetherspoons chain.

One of Purley's newer public houses.

Small pub or wine bar, almost opposite the 'Foxley Hatch'. The small single-deck bus is on Route 434, connecting Coulsdon with Whyteleafe and running mostly via back roads which otherwise would not be served.