IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Salters Road, RYDE, PO33 3HU

Looking towards Ryde, as torrential rain fell, during a thunder storm. The thunder set off several car alarms.

On the outskirts of Ryde heading into town.

Suburb of Ryde.

On the junction of Upton Road and Bettesworth Road in the Haylands district of Ryde. The name comes from the Lake family a 19th century family of brewers who owned a couple of pubs and named them after the great lakes, the Lake Huron survives but the Lake Superior in Elmfield has gone. A locals pub rather than one for tourists.

Well, you have to look carefully, but they are hiding in the white van, in the centre of picture. In all honesty, I could not blame them; a couple of minutes earlier, the rain started in earnest, and they had obviously been erecting the scaffolding, to the left of picture. Seconds before taking this picture, there had been a violent flash; I heard the lightning strike, which was followed, a split second later, by a huge clap of thunder. I subsequently found that Aldermoor Farm, just two hundred yards south of this location, had been hit. Surely things could not get worse, as I trudged towards Ryde!

Seen during a thunder storm, with torrential rain turning to hail. Looking up Upton Road, from the junction with Colenutt's Road. With sodden trousers clinging to my legs, and doing my best John Wayne impression, I trudged up the hill. At the top of the hill, and with hail accumulating on the road and pavement, I found an elderly lady, and a motorcyclist (in leathers), sheltering where there was no shelter. I trudged on ...

Taken from Upton Road looking down into the valley that contains Monktonmead Brook and the railway line before rising again passing Ryde Business Park and heading into Oakfield.