By Ken Battle Eighty years ago in November 1941, a young member of the WW2 Sunbury Home Guard drowned beside Sunbury Lock whilst being ferried there for duty. His father was a WW1 hero with a VC, but the death of his son eventually led him to take his own life in 1954. Following Britain’s […]
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Haven’t we missed live performances?! The restrictions of lockdowns have made us realise how much we took for granted. I consider myself lucky to have attended the first of the Riverside Arts Centre Showcase come back events re-cently. This afternoon tea concert featured Mengyang Pan (pictured), a pianist of international class and re-nown. She has
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Housing Need and the Green Belt Few subjects have been the cause of greater consternation, confusion (and occasionally suspicion) in recent years than the Council’s position in relation to housing need and the proposed development of certain parcels of green belt. In answer to a question at a recent meeting of the full Council, Cllr.
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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By Inspector Maxine Cilia Autumnal Equinox arrives and darker nights set in. In polic-ing terms darker nights mean more burglaries. It is easy for a burglar to see if you are out if your house sits in darkness in a row of warm glowing lights. There are so many simple and cheap devices to ensure
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By Monica Chard With so many events cancelled, even in recent months, we all need some fun. So the Lower Sunbury Business Community is starting to make plans for CHRISTMAS! We know how much you all love the Lower Sunbury Christ-mas market, so we are going to be running it again this year. Put the
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Following Nick Pollard’s article in the September 2021 issue of Sunbury Matters, we received an interesting email from reader Richard Wood. He was intrigued by the reference to the telephone number of the Sunbury bank as Sunbury 4. He commented “I was a plumber until retirement and many years ago I removed a lid over
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By Monica Chard You will most probably have heard about the impending cut to Universal Credit, scheduled for early October. A reduction of £20 per week may not sound huge to many of us, but to some it will make the differ-ence between being able to feed a family, or not. The Trussell Trust predicts
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Great to hear about this pilot scheme to bring Elective Vehicle (EV) charging points to our borough. Spelthorne is being given an alloca-tion of 20 to be rolled out as a trial and 4 will be stationed in Lower Sunbury. So far so good. We are told that electric is the way forward, using cleaner
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SUNBURY REMEMBERS 2021 marks 100 years of the Royal British Le-gion support-ing the armed forces community. It is also 100 years since the start of The Poppy Appeal. Mel Searle from the Royal British Legion Sunbury Branch togeth-er with others from the branch and a small group of volunteers from the com-munity are working to
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In line with national guidance, our infection prevention control guidelines and hospital visiting guidance remain in place for all staff and visitors in order to prevent Covid 19 transmission within our hospitals. Across our hospital sites, there has been no change to our current Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures or visiting re-strictions. We continue
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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Time to Tidy! By Rachael Leverton By October the garden can look a little tired: perennials collapse, leaves die back, and there’s debris everywhere. It can only mean one thing, clean up time. Cut Peonies, Leucanthemum, Nepeta, Del-phiniums, Hardy Geraniums, and Phlox back to ground level, but leave anything with orna-mental seed heads such as
When local resident Scott Chandler bought his puppy Mabel in May 2018, little did he know it would result in a place in the Great South Run. Scott explains “I used to walk Mabel around London Irish and regularly saw the Park Run taking place on Satur-day mornings. That inspired me to firstly walk quicker
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The last 18 months has turned the world upside down for many people or at least given us all pause for thought. Career changes, new hobbies or revisit-ing old wish lists might well seem like familiar scenarios. If joining a choir figured in your thinking, then Weybridge Male Voice Choir would love to meet you.
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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
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. I started writing this article just before the school term had started and then an INSET at school on mental health confirmed the
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Thanks to this months contributors. Please email any photos for Local Capture to monica@villagematters.co.uk.
By Monica Chard Sunbury Cross can start looking forward to a makeover. Ideas under discussion include better lighting and visibility, making users feel safe. We need to encourage better use of Sunbury Cross, for pedestrians and cyclists. Currently, you may take your life in your hands walking through the underpass, with bikes screeching round the
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Friday 8th October It’s been a long and frustrating time, but at last Sunbury Music Club is able to welcome you all back to Music Nights at Sunbury Cricket Club. The first Music Night at the Club for eighteen months is on FRIDAY 8TH OCTOBER with a gig featuring the Club’s house band THE CHAIN
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The Spelthorne and Runnymede Drama Festi-val 2021 will be back at Riverside Arts Centre between October 19 – 23rd with Paul Fowler returning as Adjudicator. It will be wonderful to watch live performanc-es again. There will be up to ten one act plays during the week competing for the various trophies. Last year, the festival
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