Many thanks to the following for their picture contributions:

Colin Gray
London Aerial Photo Library
RAF Cadet Pilot Training School
Percy Vickery
Kay Woodward
Mark Saxby
Jason Williams
Owen Durrett
Owen Burnham
Richard Bond
Clint Clements

If you have any original photographs of Fleet Pond, past or present, contact Colin Gray.

Photos

Each year, Fleet Pond Society runs a photographic competition.

View the 2006 competition winners here

View the 2005 competition winners here

Place the cursor of each picture for a description.

Aerial

Days Gone By

The Royal Engineers jetty – what remained in 1904

Fleet Pond frozen 1930s (Cormorant Island centre right)

Children on the drained pond during WWII

Homemade Ice Yacht on the pond in the winter of 1962

Volunteers laying the footpath to Sandy Bay.

Volunteers constructing the northern footpath 1978.

Volunteers fit the Carnival Bridge (near the railway), 1979

Check the History page for many more images and the story of Fleet Pond in slide show form.

Recent Work

Boardwalk Sandy Bay to Coldstream Glade 2002

JCB used to dig the Sandy Bay trench 2003

FPS new tractor in action on the Path Patch task on 13th May 2007

Lions take part in the Path Patch task on 13th May 2007

Flora

Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)

Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris)

Fauna

Southern Hawker dragonfly (Aeshna cyanea)

Snake taking a Frog - Nature red in tooth and
claw, but an incident very rarely captured on film.!

A pair of Greylag Geese successfully bred two goslings in 2005