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Monksfarm Place, Sewell Road, LONDON, SE2 9BF

This road narrowing, with one direction clearly having priority over the other, is becoming quite common (at least in London) as a form of traffic calming.

This three-storey block of housing with car parking outside looks newer than most of the housing in the area. It is opposite an access point to the Ridgeway.

Seen from the Ridgeway path.

The home of Royal Greenwich Borough's vehicle fleet, they also offer MOT tests for private and commercial vehicles.

Two of the blocks of flats on Panfield Road, viewed looking across Abbey Wood Park from Finchale Road.

Parked out behind the Birchmere Centre Image are a large number of yellow council vehicles belonging to Royal Greenwich council - possibly the biggest fleet of yellow vehicles since the Vogon invasion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon

This embankment covers the pipes of the Southern Outfall Sewer on their way to the Crossness Sewage Treatment Works. The Sewer was constructed under the direction of Joseph Bazalgette, the Chief Engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and was built in the early 1860s. The embankment now has a footpath running along its top called The Ridgeway. Sewell Road is to the right. In a sad indictment of our times the powers that be feel it is necessary to monitor what is going on and the pole in the distance along the embankment is a CCTV mast. Just behind the photographer is another one.

Greenwich borough does better than many other councils at recycling. This is the public facility where people can bring items that don't go in the domestic recycling bin such as wood, large metal items, electrical equipment and fluorescent tubes for recycling; there are also skips for general (non-recyclable) waste. Trade vehicles have to go to the "waste recovery centre" next door Image

Sewell Road is the main National Grid transformer station for the Plumstead / Thamesmead area. A 2006 document http://legacy.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning/srdf/docs/east-srdf-annexes.rtf reported that by 2016 it would need to be upgraded from 4x15 MVA to 3x60 MVA transformers, the incoming supply being increased from 33kV to 132kV, to meet the increased demand from housing developments in the area. In this photo there are clearly four, not three transformers so it is not clear whether this upgrade has taken place yet. To the right is part of the Thames Water Pumping Station. I have not been able to discover anything online about this facility, although I guess that it pumps sewage from the local area (Abbey Wood) into the Southern Outfall Sewer (the photo being taken from the Ridgeway path on top of said sewer).