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 …
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 …
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 …
Lord’s Bridge Pond (above) is on Halliford School land to the west of Church Road, across the road from Manor Park. This unique local ecological and environmental space is sheltered and populated with lots of native plants which support the wildlife there. Work has taken place occasionally over the decades, most recently a sympathetic clean-up …
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Prepare for Spring! By Rachael Leverton September is the time to plan your spring bulb purchases. The best selections always sell out quickly and it’s frustrating when the prettiest crocuses and tulips are not available. If you’re planting bulbs for the first time, or in a new area of the garden it helps to have …
By Monica Chard Our hair is our crowning glory. We style it, dye it and embellish it as a sign of who we are. It gives us confidence. It’s often a statement. So imagine losing it! What can be done to reverse the problem? Alopecia is a familiar term which we may understand as meaning …
Better known to many as Fairy Liquide Annie died peacefully on 6 June after a long illness. Without Annie there would have been no Fairy Liquide and no Laleham Pantomime. At a New Year’s Eve party in 2012 at Annie’s house a number of short sketches and songs were performed by those present, some with …
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 …
Anyone who has visited Thames Court, or walked along the towpath in Shepperton, can’t have failed to notice the iconic Shepperton ‘resident’ looking out wistfully across Shepperton lock from the balcony of a modern house. The Blues Brothers figure has even been used as a clue on a Shepperton treasure hunt trail. He has sat …
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 …
Cameo, a day centre for people with dementia, has been running for 30 years and should have celebrated this milestone in 2020 at the Greeno Centre, from where they have provided their services for in excess of 25 years. Cameo has been unable to operate at the Greeno Centre since March 2020 due to the …
Covid has been the last straw for Sharon Johnson. She set up and has been running the ever busy Shepperton Hedgehog Sanctuary in Old Charlton Road for 10 years. Hedgehogs were tak-en in with injuries, dehydration or abandoned young who needed feeding night and day. With increasing demand she increased the capacity and took on …
St Andrew’s Baptist Church, Upper Halliford welcomes their new Pastor Tom Hoyles and his wife Wyn to their church fellowship after being without a Pastor for over 3 ½ years. The Induction service will be Sunday 19th September 2021 10.30am and all are welcome. Pastor Tom Hoyles brings a wealth of experience with him having …
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 …
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 …
By Sunbury & Shepperton Rotary It has been a frustrating time, but everyone was so enthusiastic to get going again, for all the charities involved, many of which have struggled with lower donations and higher costs during the pandemic. Due to Covid 19, Shepperton & Sunbury Rotary had to defer this walk from May to …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
