By Monica Jones We have lost another colourful character. Sadly Joy McQuade passed away in February, on her 93rd birthday. Joy was indeed colourful in many ways, one being her remarkable and unique style of dress, usually a colourful kaftan. Joy also had a remarkable mind and memory and had been ‘Brain Of Britain’ for […]
By Monica Jones and John Douglass The article in the March magazine on Water-splash Farm and the increase in flood risk as a result of gravel extraction, raised a lot of in-terest and anger amongst readers. Although the subject has been in several magazine arti-cles during recent years, this time people seemed to wake up
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Bringing nostalgic movie magic back to the Riverside for the first time in over one hundred years. Did you know that the walls of the Riverside’s great hall were once home to The Magnet Picture Palace and Sunbury Picture Theatre where silent films dazzled captivated locals. In fact, the very first adaptation of Alice in
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Be Nice to the Bees! By Rachael Leverton Albert Einstein supposedly declared that, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.” There is much debate over whether the great man actually did make such an as-sertion as he was a physicist after all,
Following on from the overwhelming success of the Sunbury Ferry’s first season last year, the volunteers are keen to get going again. The 2022 season is due to start operating weekends and Bank Holidays from this Easter, 10.00am to 5.00pm. In the meantime, you may see the ferry out and about, undertaking refresher training for
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By Monica Jones Half way there sounds close…but the journey for the Sea Cadets has been a rocky one and they continue to be very challenged. The Sunbury and Walton Sea Cadets (SWSC) have been through a momentous 10 years. Having got planning permission to rebuild their very old training centre, they were badly affected
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5th Sunbury has provided scouting in Sun-bury for around 80 years. We urgently need help if we are to continue. Can you help? The 5th Sunbury has been based at various locations including the old Kennyngton Manor School and is currently at The Jun-gle, Ashridge Way. Over the years we have had up to 2
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by Neil Huntingford This month we take a look at how the Health Centre is beginning to increase the number of patients being seen face-to-face, whilst still complying with NHS Covid guidelines, and utilising technological developments where appropriate. The first thing to remember is that, although the government has lifted Covid restrictions and self-isolating for
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In our comfortable and safe existence in the affluent South East of England we often talk about ‘keeping a roof over our heads’ and we at the Riverside have used that same phrase when attempting to balance our books. But let us spare a thought for those un-fortunate people of the Ukraine to whom that
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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 throughout the school year. By now, parents who have applied for sec-ondary school places will know if they have been successful or not. Congratulations if you’ve been
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For one night only … We are (we hope) approaching the end of the struggle to keep Kempton Park green. It’s been nine years, can you believe it, since we first found out about The Jockey Club’s plans to put thousands of houses on the Kempton Park estate. Defences against these crass plans for blight-ing
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The poster competition is underway and hope-fully many schools will enter. The closing date is March 11th. The theme for this year is “Platinum Jubilee: 70 years” and is part of the local efforts to celebrate the Queen’s remarkable 70 years on the throne. Organisers have asked that the words “Spelthorne in Bloom” appear in
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We are already used to seeing Netflix filming around Shepperton, as their UK HQ is now based at the studios. Well now, in a further commitment to the UK production industry, Prime Video has announced a landmark multi million pound long term contract with Shep-perton Studios for exclusive use of new pro-duction facilities at the
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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 throughout the school year. Over my years of teaching Maths, I have (unsurprisingly) privately tutored students in Maths. This leads to many conversations with parents about many
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by Neil Huntingford This month we take a look at how our local health centres can work together, focusing on certain aspects of health care, to improve ser-vices to patients. Sunbury Health Centre is now part of a Pri-mary Care Network (PCN) working collabora-tively on certain projects with Shepperton Medical Practice, Studholme Medical Centre and
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Here we go, here we go…… !! It is a new year and another new beginning at Riverside. Let us hope that this will not be another false start after Covid and that this time we will really return to normality. How wonderful to see audi-ences back in January and February, with very successful Classical
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On Saturday 29th January, repre-sentatives from eight local chari-ties joined members of Shepperton Aurora at The Ferry Coffee Shop, Shepperton Lock to receive cheques from the Club totally over £4,000. The eight local charities, Thames Sailability, Cruse, Purple Angels, the Greeno, the Lourdes group, Paxmead Girl Guides, Cameo and the Black Swan Sea Cadets received
