Trolley 381

Another M&S food hall trolley captured at the eastern end of the market square, maybe 100 yards from the front entrance to M&S. The bottom of the front of the basket had been bashed hard enough to burst some of the spot welds holding the wires together, but the trolley was still entirely usable.

The red building top middle was once proud to be Epsom's Post Office, closed for some years now. But at least it is not just the UK as I once came across a picture of a very grand post office building, I think in Italy, now upcycled for some quite different 20th or 21st century purpose.

While the building behind the ambulance used to be the Spread Eagle, an important waystation on the way to the Derby up on the Downs, in the days when the Derby was an important national institution, attracting one or two hundred thousand people, nearly all both drinkers and smokers - and some ladies in fancy clothes. As the Derby went downhill, the Spread Eagle became a high end clothes shop, one which featured old-style salesmen on commission who had little notebooks involving elaborate springs and carbon copies in which they recorded sales. A shop in which I have spent a fair bit of money over the years. But a high end clothes shop whose day is done and who knows what the future holds for the building - probably in the firm grip of the heritage people.