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Latimer Road, CHESHAM, HP5 1QQ

Situated outside 75 Latimer Road HP5 1QQ, this telephone kiosk has a BT notice above the payphone indicating that it will shortly be removed due to lack of usage. This kiosk certainly seems to have seen better days in the past with graffiti being painted in white by the BT notice. A No Smoking notice can be seen at the base of this kiosk. Update: this telephone kiosk has since been removed.

A narrow strip of land between the road and the river has been opened up for public use. There were no other takers on this dull day though.

The River Chess is a shallow chalk stream and the Chess Valley walk broadly follows its course between Chesham and Rickmansworth. The Chess Valley walk extends for ten miles between the towns of Rickmansworth and Chesham, each of which has a tube station on the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground, enabling the whole walk to be done using public transport. Two intermediate tube stations at Chorleywood and Chalfont & Latimer each have connecting public footpaths, providing possible route variations.

This used to be Weir House Mill on the River Chess. The premises are now occupied by McMinn hardware wholesalers.

This weir and broken brickwork indicate the location of the former Cannon Mill, that is said to have been demolished in the 1960s. The flat body of water above the weir would have been the mill leat, and the water would have driven a mill wheel positioned in the brick recess below. There is a descriptive notice board nearby that describes it as Canon's Mill, but all the old Ordnance Survey mapping from 1878 onwards describes it as Cannon Mill, so the photographer has opted for the latter. Incidentally the pink item above the weir that looks like a suspended animal carcase is in fact a children's play swing...

The weir is at the site of one of many former mills on the river. This is all there is to see now, as the mill house was demolished in the 1960s.

This view looks over fields towards a water bottling plant (the buildings with blue doors in the centre of the image) and housing, near Chesham in Buckinghamshire.