Shepperton Matters
CARE in Shepperton
In the last issue of this magazine, we told you we were planning to restart our service from 5th July. I am pleased to say we achieved that. There have been some teething problems – definitely much easier to stop than to restart. Hopefully, all the clients have managed to contact us and receive the
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Shepperton Residents Association
Hello again from your Local Residents’ Association! Through all the disruption that the Covid pan-demic has caused over the past 18 months or so, we hope that you are keeping safe and well and are now managing some degree of normality in your lives. With the development of the vaccine and the ensuing pro-gramme of
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Shepperton Medical Centre – Your Chance for Answers Face to Face
Few readers of these pages will be unaware of the flurry of excitement over the Shepperton Medical Centre. And as the world opens up to renewed human contacts it is good that your Residents Association is able to offer an Open Meeting on Tuesday 21st September in the Village Hall of Shepperton when members of
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New Signage for Lord’s Bridge Pocket Garden
You might have noticed a new story board which has gone up at the Lord’s Bridge pock-et garden on the corner of the high street and Renfree Way. The little garden continues to astound us. It has grown in maturity and beauty and is such a great addition to our community. The story board tells
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The Sunbury Bank
By Nick Pollard The building in the photo is familiar today as part of the Riverside Arts Centre in Thames Street, Sunbury, but for many years it was the village bank. This, the first bank in Sunbury, was opened in 1883 by Thomas Ashby and Co, who had been founded in Staines in 1796 (another
Charity Donations or Fly Tipping?
Walking down the high street one Monday morning recently I saw our intrepid Jean, picking up bags from outside the QEF charity shop (closed on a Monday) and putting them in her rub-bish cart. “Look at it all!” she said. Boxes, bags and furniture, left outside the shop and literally spilling across the pavement. This
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New Beginnings
By Rory Edwards Rory Edwards is a local parent, teacher of 28 years and a school governor. He offers us an insight into certain dilemmas parents might face at the start of the new academic year. This summer holiday has been slightly different in our household in preparation for the new academic year. So, what
Lost Racing Pigeon Returned Home
Thank you to local residents Mr and Mrs Morgan, who contacted Shepperton Matters with their story of ‘Belgie’ the racing pigeon. “In the middle of July this year we found a tagged racing pigeon in our garden which seemed to be limping badly. We caught it and discovered racing bands on it’s leg along with
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Life Returning to Normal at Thamesmead
After the lockdowns and restrictions of the past two years Thamesmead School are looking forward to welcoming visitors back to see us. Our response to the pandemic was widely praised by our parent and student community as we led the way and delivered live teaching via Microsoft Teams from the earliest days of the first
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Community Events Gaining Momentum
Despite the heat there was a fantastic array of plants donated or offered as swaps at the first get2getherlocally Pop Up Plant Swap on Saturday 17th July held in Staines. Many came to enjoy the afternoon and a fine array of herbs, vegetables, fruits plus indoor and outdoor plants were swapped and everyone was pleased
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Halliford School’s New Woodward Building
This year sees Halliford School mark its Centenary, and at the centre of its celebrations is the construction of a new building on site. The school was delighted that Spelthorne Borough Council approved their ambitious plans for a new 805 sq. m teaching building. The ethos of Halliford School is founded on being a smaller
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Celebrations at Burway for Olympic Champion
Laleham has a local hero. Tom Barras shows off his silver medal from the Men’s Quadruple Sculls at the Tokyo Olympics. Tom was coached by Burway’s Jim Mathiesen when he was a teenager. He started at Burway when he was only 11. John Biddle, Burway’s club president was lucky to be working at the Olympic
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Alzheimer’s Garden Party Fund Raiser Exceeds Expectations
There were cakes galore, and a good many samosas. All washed down with endless pots of tea and coffee and all served on beautiful vintage china. Chairs and tables were set out amongst the flower beds, at their very best with perfect roses. Parasols offered some much needed shade from the glorious sun-shine. It really
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St Nicholas’ First Post Pandemic Wedding
Eye witness account from one lucky guest The first wedding since March 2020 took place at St Nicholas church on May 22nd 2021. The happy couple to walk back down the aisle as a ‘Mr and Mrs’s were Sheppertoni-an Emily Strong and her partner Michael Hawthorn. It has been a long journey to reach the
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LOCKDOWN is OVER …Nearly!
Now that lockdown is over (July now, I assume) and our shops and hospitality outlets are already back to (nearly) normal, we must use our High Street, as much as we can! Our businesses need our full support now, to keep the heart of Shepperton beating strongly, after the most traumatic period in recent memory.
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New Ferry Crossing at Sunbury
This is definitely good news for you walkers out there. Sunbury is following in the footsteps of Shepperton and Hampton and introducing a ferry to join it to the Walton bank and the footpath along the Thames. Made possible because of a lot of cooperation and support from various parties, including Spelthorne Council, The Middle
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Creek House, Shepperton
By Nick Pollard Creek House is situated in the Chertsey Road, Shepperton, just to the west of Church Square and on the north bank of the creek which feeds into the Thames at Ferry Square, and gives the house its name. It’s an attractive Arts and Crafts style house, dating in its present form to
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Queen Mother’s Cross Returns to Shepperton
By Laurie Burrell On Friday the 11th of June 2021, an important event took place at The Burlington Resi-dential Care Home, Manygate Lane, Shepperton, when Mrs Pat Burrell, one of the last Chairman of the ‘Friends of The Bradbury Centre Residen-tial Care Home’ visited The Burlington to celebrate the installation of the cabinet and cross
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History of the Sunbury Ferry
The following is an extract of the online article by Nick Pollard There have been ferries crossing the River Thames for centuries, way before there were bridges of any kind. Sunbury has had its fair share over the years. Records show a Sunbury ferry was in existence at least as early as 1604 and there
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