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Good stuff. I know you tried it once before, but you should have another go at writing a book.

Andrew | 09.04.17 - 8:38 a.m. | #

Lovely piece, live around this area, so nice to see it featured.

Ian C | 09.04.17 - 9:18 a.m. | #

Suppose one were fortunate enough to have the Norbury Brook or the Graveney flowing at the end of one's garden. In this dry spring, is it OK to extract water to keep plants alive?

The Wandle has been running low this year, due to the lack of winter and spring rain. The Sutton and East Surrey Water Company extract so much water from the aquifer under the North Downs whose streams feed Carshalton Ponds that water from the Croydon arm is pumped back to Carshalton from Goat Bridge to maintain a flow in the Carshalton arm.
http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news/Dismay_as_scenic_Carshalton_Ponds_drained

RayL | 09.04.17 - 9:21 a.m. | #

As the Graveney forms the boundary, Tooting station is actually in Mitcham (the station was so named because when it was built Mitcham already had a station, but Tooting didn't)

My father went to primary school in one of the "ABC" streets. I don't know whether the sequence helped him learn the alphabet though.

timbo | 09.04.17 - 9:39 a.m. | #

Take a pair of wellies or waders next time and get an entirely different angle on things

Jerym | 09.04.17 - 11:23 a.m. | #

There is nowhere along the Graveney that a member of the public could use wellies or waders.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.04.17 - 11:27 a.m. | #

That viewing platform is quite a treat at the end! Beautiful spot.

Cornish Cockney | 09.04.17 - 11:37 a.m. | #

My wife and I used to live near the sidings nature reserve and had the Graveney at the end of our road, so I was looking forward to today's post - it didn't disappoint! Thanks DG.

Marc | 09.04.17 - 3:25 p.m. | #

DG, explanation please! Both on the photograph on your link 'confluence' and the photograph of the viewing platform to the right, in the latter case just under the railing, and in both under the tree appears something with apparent lines. Is this graffiti on a piece of retaining wall or has my eyesight completely failed me?

dg writes: It is indeed graffiti on a piece of retaining wall.

Probably blind | 09.04.17 - 6:26 p.m. | #











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