Do you have a recipe to share? Food, and preparing and sharing food with our family and friends may express many things about our identity, history, culture, community and lives. Now, to celebrate the joy of food and the im-portance of our gorgeous neighbours we have decided to put together a Shepperton Commu-nity Cookbook. After […]
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At the time of writing, it would be nearly 4 weeks until Big Tree Night 2021. But sadly, as you all know Big Tree Night is not taking place this year. The committee have been bombarded with the ‘why nots’ and ‘really, we are not in lock-down’ and ‘we have our freedom so what’s the
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Nicola and Sam have been working together for a year to introduce this much needed pro-vision to the local and surrounding communi-ties. In December 2021, Sam answered Nico-la’s phone call, to help support her daughter with the trauma of cyber bullying. It was when they started to discuss their families and the love for their
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Themba is a Shepperton-based amateur youth theatre group which raises money for Compassion UK, a charity which helps to bring children out of poverty. Elf Jr is based on the popular movie Elf but with the addition of song and dance, in a specially-adapted 70 minute show. It is such fun and will definitely leave
With the focus recently on the environment and biodiversity, this is the time to see what we can all do to encourage wildlife at the same time as making our communities beautiful and attrac-tive places to live. Community projects to reclaim unloved land have sprung up and you may have seen wild flowers embellishing previously
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Merry Christmas everyone! Although Big Tree Night was cancelled this year, a small group of volunteers have been hard at work over the last few months – taking orders for Christmas Trees from our High Street traders – so that the street can light up at the beginning of December. CHRISTMAS in Shepperton has not
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By Nick Pollard Halliford School was founded in 1921 as Shepperton Grammar School, and occupied a building in Laleham Road, just by the present junction with Manor Farm Avenue. It provid-ed education for boys and girls from the ages of 5 to 14. The school was founded and owned by the first Headmaster, Alfred Dobree
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Thank you to Laurie Burrell for sharing his experi-ence on November 14th when he had the opportunity to attend the Royal British Legion Cenotaph Parade as a representative of the Soldiers Sailors Airman Family Association (SSAFA) of which he is a Surrey Branch member for Spelthorne and Runnymede. Our instructions for the day from SSAFA
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George Drewett recently turned 100 (5/10/21). The story of his life is an interesting one. George was born in Croydon. He was one of the last children to be sent to the workhouse, before its transition to local authority care. His father came back from soldiering in the Great War with a Military medal and
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By James Slade A year ago I set myself a bucket list of things to do before I’m 40 (I’m 39), and one of the things on my list was to run a full marathon. In the past I’ve run a few half marathons, but straight after each one I’ve always thought to myself, “there’s
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With no Big Tree Night for the second year, the Grinch might look as if he has his teeth into our Christmas celebrations. But the community is not standing for it! There are many plans for local celebrations, so plenty to keep the little ones entertained and give you some retail therapy. The so named
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By Monica Chard At the end of 2018 Shepperton Matters made a plea on behalf of the Shepperton Allotments who were looking to raise funds to build a toilet block. With outside space and fresh air being ever more im-portant for our mental well being, it was a much needed facility to enable allotments holders
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By Monica Chard I know that some of you in Shepperton already stock up at the Surplus to Supper shop at the weekend and word is spreading. If you want to support a charity, keep surplus food from landfill, fill your shopping bags for a donation and support those in need, please read on and
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It has been a busy month or so for the Shepperton Residents’ Association (SRA). On the 21st September, we had the first Open Meeting in the Village Hall for well over a year due to the pandemic and all that! Shepperton Med-ical Centre was the main subject of discussion and there were 7 members of
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We, at Shepperton Matters, have always cham-pioned the Spelthorne in Bloom initiative. Gardens give so much pleasure, brighten our borough and the benefits all round for mental health and well being is well documented. Shepperton and Laleham did extremely well this year; The Three Horseshoes won 1st place in the small pubs category. Laleham won
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By Peter Hughes, Patients Participation Group As promised in these columns 2 months ago, the Patient Participation Group arranged with the Shepperton Residents Association that doctors, and the Practice Manager, would speak to the public in the Village Hall on Sep-tember 21st. The first to speak was Dr Rogers, who had been 33 years in
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By Nick Pollard With the former police station in Staines Road East, Sunbury, being converted into flats, I thought it would be an opportune moment to look at the history of policing in Sunbury. The photo shows the staff of 5 sergeants and 2 acting sergeants (with two stripes) surrounded by 18 constables in front
The Ivory Tusk, Shepperton The pleasure of eating out with friends is something we have had to live without for a very long time. All fine to have a take away and someone else cooking your dinner, but a meal out is so much more of an event. The pleasure of being served and being
At the end of 2019, we attended a climate change day at the River-house Barn in Walton. One of the highlights of the day was the chil-dren’s choir We Are The Voice, who performed songs written by choir leader Niamh Clune. We raved about them, saying they should go on Britain’s Got Talent. Well how
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You can’t help but notice as you walk along Church Road and look over the fence towards what used to be the ‘swamp’ adjacent to Halliford School playing fields, that there has been a transformation. The project is still work in progress and the green slime needs to be tackled, but the force of volunteers
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