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 …
Well, hopefully some of you may have seen some summer sun. May be the summer is just late. Let’s hope! The recent months have seen an in-crease in bicycle theft, both from the street and from bur-glaries of garages. If you have a bike, especially if it is expensive, please consider registering it on bike …
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 …
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 …
Thanks to this months contributors. It has been a summer of flowers and varying weather. Well, at least the ducks enjoyed the rain! Please email any photos for Local Capture to monica@villagematters.co.uk. If they are good enough, they might even make the front cover!
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 …
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 …
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 …
Local family support charity, Home-Start Spelthorne was launched in April 1986 and 25 years later is still providing support for young families with children under the age of 5. Over the last 25 years, 36 Volunteer Prepa-ration Courses have been run and 223 volun-teers have been recruited. This has enabled over 2000 families to receive …
Spelthorne Borough Council recently honoured 11 volunteers at the Civic Trust Awards, which honours residents for their voluntary service in the Borough. Spelthorne Civic Award Trust recognise individuals who have given at least 12 years’ service to volunteering in the Borough. Between them this year’s winners have given more 100 years of service to the …
There is a new tea room opened locally which is well worth a visit. Dramatize tea room is in the little square of shops on Hetherington Road and is very special. It has been set up to support adults with learning disabilities who are being trained in the hospitality sector. Sunbury Matters took a relaxed …
Ashford and St. Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust are delighted to have embarked on a brilliant new partnership with Egham Or-bit to provide musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy services for a variety of exercises and education rehabilitation classes. Providing these services at Egham Orbit will enable us to utilise state of the art facilities for our rehab clinics, …
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Local author Victoria Scott will fulfill a lifetime ambition when her first novel, Patience, is pub-lished in hardback and ebook on August 5th. Victoria first began writing Pa-tience in her spare time a decade ago, fitting her passion around her day journalist day job. How-ever, she stopped writing the novel after the birth of her …
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia Summer is here. Well whilst I am writing this piece for July and August it is absolutely pouring with rain and its Midsum-mers day or Sum-mer Solstice. It saddens me to say that as we come out of lockdown we have seen an in-crease in violent crime. There has been a …
Surrey based author George S Boughton has written a beautifully illustrated book called Dennis to Alice. It is an enchanting and enter-taining book set locally in Surrey and tackles the important subjectof conservation. It is certain to appeal to both families and children Dennis to Alice is far more than a picture book, it is …
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 …
The Holiday Inn, Shepperton, has been taking advantage of lockdown to undergo an extensive modernisation. Not one area of it will be untouched and the plans are definitely exciting. We visited in June, on a hard hat tour of the premises. There are two defined areas of the building; the hotel, with new reception desk, …
By Neal Adolphus It used to be so easy, didn’t it? You just popped into the surgery or rang up and there you were, soon sitting in front of the friendly doctor. ‘Your’ doctor of course. A bit of a chat then down to the medical stuff. Why isn’t it as simple nowadays? What went …
By Tracy Moore, Neighbourhood Watch and Bill Cunningham, Scamwatch Neighbourhood Watch – Catalytic Converter Thefts By Tracy Moore We continue to see catalytic converter theft across Shepperton with another 4 in May being stolen,: Halliford Road, (Honda Accord); Charlton Lane, (Honda Jazz); Bruce Avenue, (Honda Jazz); Hetherington Road, (Honda CR-V) Catalytic converters are targeted because …
By Monica Chard It has been a long time coming, but finally, the Incubator Hub, to support Spelthorne small businesses and entrepreneurs, has been officially opened. The slogan is Dream it. Do it. It opens the opportunity to new business owners to follow their dreams of running their own business, but offers the support of …
Saving Water In spite of the somewhat soggy spring water is an increasingly precious resource in the UK. Over the past few decades, rivers, reservoirs, and ground water supplies have become depleted. It’s important to save water where we can. Most of us have enough space for at least one water butt, and there are …
