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| dsc_0037.jpg Wimbledon station | dsc_0038.jpg Shops outside station | dsc_0039.jpg View of station | dsc_0040.jpg View of station |
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| dsc_0042.jpg Setting off towards Wimbledon Hill | dsc_0043.jpg Wimbledon shops | dsc_0044.jpg Wimbledon shops | |
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| dsc_0045.jpg Pub at base of Wimbledon hill | dsc_0046.jpg Passing Worple Rd | dsc_0047.jpg Barclays Bank building | dsc_0048.jpg Left at Mansel Rd, past Wimbledon High - the girls' school. Unlike many of my classmates, I never got to know the W'High girls. |
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| dsc_0049.jpg Looking up W'Hill Rd. | dsc_0051.jpg Looking back down W'Hill Rd | dsc_0052.jpg Mansel Rd | |
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| dsc_0053.jpg Right on Raymond Rd and up the hill | dsc_0054.jpg I remember walking up this hill during the hot summer of 1976 | dsc_0055.jpg and going back down could be dicey if icy | dsc_0056.jpg Raymond cul-de-sac with footpath entrance |
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| dsc_0057.jpg Sunnyside Passage footpath, then up the steps | dsc_0058.jpg and then take a right onto main footpath | dsc_0059.jpg and onward | dsc_0060.jpg to where it comes out on Sunnyside |
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| dsc_0061.jpg Looking back at footpath | dsc_0062.jpg Looking up Sunnyside | dsc_0063.jpg Church at end of Sunnyside, on Ridgeway | dsc_0064.jpg Ditto |
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| dsc_0065.jpg At top of Sunnyside looking along Ridgway | dsc_0066.jpg | dsc_0067.jpg Setting off anlong Ridgway | dsc_0068.jpg Ridgway |
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| dsc_0069.jpg Ridgway | dsc_0070.jpg Ridgway | dsc_0071.jpg Ridgway | dsc_0072.jpg Ridgway |
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| dsc_0073.jpg Ridgway | dsc_0074.jpg Ridgway | dsc_0075.jpg Ridgway | dsc_0076.jpg Back entrance to KCS |
After visiting KCS, I wandered out to Caesar's Camp, an iron age hillfort marking the original settlement in Wimbledon but now part of a golf course. Then I walked and bussed to Raynes Park, which was my alternate route to school.
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| dsc_0133.jpg Common | dsc_0134.jpg Beside the common | dsc_0135.jpg To Camp Rd | dsc_0136.jpg Caesar's Camp (actually iron age) |
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| dsc_0137.jpg Caesar's Camp. We used to do crosscountry runs around here I think | dsc_0138.jpg Caesar's Camp | dsc_0139.jpg Caesar's Camp | dsc_0140.jpg Caesar's Camp |
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| dsc_0141.jpg Caesar's Camp | dsc_0142.jpg The path onward | ||
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| dsc_0145.jpg Bus stop with wait times displyed - we need these in USA | dsc_0146.jpg Raynes Park Station | dsc_0147.jpg Raynes Park | dsc_0148.jpg Raynes Park |
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| dsc_0149.jpg Raynes Park | dsc_0150.jpg Raynes Park | dsc_0151.jpg Setting off the bus from Raynes Park |