4 days ago · 6 min read1298 words · Life · 0 comments

Even with 20,000 photos uploaded to Flickr there are still some parts of London where I've never uploaded any. I filled eight of the largest gaps yesterday and today I'm plugging the largest of all. It's just south of Orpington and contains the minor outposts of Green Street Green, Tubbenden and Goddington, also much of Chelsfield. I have thus been out for a wander and have chosen ten photographs to best represent the space where formerly there were none. New photo: Orpington War Memorial The R7 driver gave me such a hard stare while I was taking this photo, perhaps wrongly assuming my focus was him rather than Armistice commemoration. Orpington's War Memorial has a very prominent position amid the roundabout at the south end of the high street, which as a downside makes it extremely dangerous to walk out and inspect. To combat this they've listed all the war dead on a roadside panel by the Village Hall, a lengthy list (although only casualties from WW1 made it onto the main obelisk…

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