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Russell Hill, PURLEY, CR8 2JB

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.

Foxley Lane leads up from central Purley towards Little Woodcote. On the right Plough Lane leads up Russell Hill towards South Beddington.

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.

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.

Part of the Webb Estate, an extensive "garden estate" of private roads and large, expensive-looking houses. See Image for more information.

Leafy Purley. Purley developed rapidly in the 1920s and '30s, a suburban town sandwiched between Croydon to the north and the North Downs to the south; it is one of the UK's most affluent areas. It can also be quite hilly; here, Purley Knoll drops down to Valley Road.