By Monica Chard The Spelthorne Business Competi-tion, brain child of Business Secre-tary and Spelthorne MP Kwasi Kwarteng, is in it’s 7th year. We gathered at the BP learning centre in late September to hear the Drag-on Den style pitches from 6 final-ists, made to a panel of local busi-ness leaders. Once more, the stand-ard of […]
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By Will Hardy In recent years I’ve put together a series of local history talks at St Mary Magdalene Church, Littleton, just around the corner from Shepperton Film Studios. It has all been great fun, and I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported them, helped out, and made them possible. During the pandemic, I have
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With the increase in domestic violence and escalating need for shelter for the vulnerable who may be sleeping rough, Spelthorne Council have invested some of their profits from their housing portfolio to build a be-spoke shelter. The White House (which is not in fact white, nor a house!) is situated next to the new Spelthorne
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We at The Burlington care home, Shepperton are delighted with the success of our first Autumn Ba-zaar which we held to support our local community. We wanted to raise not only the spirits of our resi-dents and their families after long and hard times but also to raise funds for Alzheimer’s Research UK charity. There
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The long lockdown and frustrating pause in activity within the hospitality industry, has been time put to good use at the Holiday Inn, Shepperton. The venue has undergone an ex-tensive refurbishment. Alongside it sits now Storyboard at Shepperton, a new aspirational and contemporary events destination, setting the scene for weddings, celebrations and meetings up to
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What an amazing initiative from this innovative local favourite. Last month the team launched their ‘Table for a Hero’ idea. Locals are asked to nominate people in the community who have gone that extra mile. The team will then select a winner and that person will be gifted a meal for 4 with fizz, as
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia The crime of this month is theft from motor vehicles. It is still so surprising how many people leave their cars on their drives un-locked. What is more surprising is that they also leave their car full of valuable items such as expensive sun-glasses, mobile phones and satnavs, cash, even wallets
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It’s Carers’ Rights Day on 25th Novem-ber, a chance to raise awareness of unpaid carers and their rights to support, so Action for Carers Surrey is holding a week of special events. If you’re looking after a relative or friend who couldn’t manage without you, you’re ‘a carer’. Action for Carers helps Surrey’s unpaid carers
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Protect & Survive No…not the 1970s public information campaign exhorting us to hide under a table in case of nuclear attack. This is far more useful. It’s my public information campaign about protecting tender perennials and taking cuttings to over winter so your plants survive and even multiply. First the protection: to protect tender perennials
Lockdown was a time to think and plan. As a result, there are some big changes at Nauticalia and it is very exciting! You will have seen the focus has shifted from gifts to coffee and cakes. The venture has proved very popular with walkers, cyclists and locals and the seating areas have expanded. The
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On Saturday 4th September Shep-perton Village Hall was buzzing with activity. The hall was full of beautiful flowers, home grown vegetables and fruit, home made baked goods and sparkly jars of home-made preserves, displayed for all to see. It was the annual Autumn Show of the Shepperton Horticultural Association, the first show since 2019. Members
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The COVID pandemic meant we had to pause the plans we were making to assist our less able neigh-bours. It also allowed us to review the help we will be offering. Some GP’s surgeries have reduced the number of face-to-face appointments and other medical needs appear to have reduced, maybe only temporarily. So now we
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The community boat, ‘Impossible Dream’, offering accessibility to the water, has been delighting many by opening again for boat trips on the Thames. In August the charity received a generous donation from Shepperton Rotary Aurora, and now proudly sports stickers with their logo. The committee (see below) celebrated with a glass of something appropriate. The
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Desborough Sailing Club (DSC), based in Ferry Lane, Shepperton, celebrated it’s 73rd Birthday on Saturday 4th September with a Birthday Party held on the lawn at the club’s lovely riverside setting. Originally conceived at a meeting in The Warren Lodge Hotel in 1948, DSC began life based at D’Oyly Carte Island. In 1953 it moved
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By Nick Pollard Shepperton Studios has been the centre of film making in our area since the 1930s, but filming in the village dates back considerably before this, to the early days of cinema in this country. Cecil Hepworth of Walton-on-Thames established the first purpose-built film studios in Britain at his home in Hurst Grove
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An occasional series featuring Laleham’s past residents and visitors Some recent world events have echoes in Lale-ham ‘residents’, past and current. Emma Radu-canu’s wonderful US open tennis victory and Brit-ain’s great Olym-pic performances are reminders that Laleham has had its own tennis grand slam and Olympic champi-on. Major Josiah George Ritchie, pictured, (an unu-sual forename,
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By Monica Chard Anna Gammond was clearly a driving force in our community. She has been described by her granddaughter, Sophie as “over and above”. This seems to have been the case in everything, whether it was the warm welcome she bestowed on visitors, her involvement in local groups or her dedication to her pupils
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Colin Squire OBE, Chairman Emeritus of Squire’s Garden Centres, has been awarded the prestigious Dean Hole Medal by The Rose Society UK in recognition of his work with and love of roses. The award was pre-sented by John Anthony, Chairman of The Rose Society, in Peter Seabrook’s rose bed exhibit at BBC Gardeners’ World Live
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We are very excited to be a part of this fantastic new publication. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Sunbury & Shepperton Local History Society, as well as the 10th anniversary of Sunbury & Shepperton Matters, we have joined forces to create this fabulous book. Whenever we are contacted by readers (which is quite
You may have seen Laura Allard pounding the pavements of Shepperton, in training for her forthcoming marathon. She considers herself very fortunate to have gained a place in this years London Marathon, which will take place in early October. Laura is running as part of Team Shooting Star, a local hospice for children. Many of
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