Sunbury Matters

It’s up to us to keep our local shops alive and thriving  Numerous planner, architect and developer trade organisations have expressed dismay at a government announcement last month that permitted development rights (PDR) will be expanded. The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) said it “cannot fathom” why the government believed the policy “is in any […]

By Carole Hawkins (niece)  In last months Sunbury Matters there was a photo from Wilson’s boatyard in 1941 (below).  In the photo is 17-year-old apprentice, Eric Robins, my uncle. He would go on to use the carpentry skills he learned at Wilsons to aid the war effort and, subsequently, in the construction of many local

By Sara Ward  It was a cold Saturday morning and I was standing, socially distanced, from a friend whilst we hugged thermal mugs of tea and watched pairs of women in swimsuits, com-plete with woolly hats and neoprene gloves and boots, walk down the slipway into the cold water of the creek. Not long after,

By Mary Booth  If you have walked along the Thames between Sunbury and Shepperton on the second weekend in September in recent years, you may have seen the flotilla of Dunkirk Little Ships. These beautiful historic boats make this journey every year in an event designed to bring together veterans and those ships which saved

The Sunbury Amateur Regatta Committee, has taken the difficult decision to cancel the event for 2021. Whilst the pathway out of lockdown is promising, the remain-ing uncertainty and potential for last-minute change, creates too great a financial risk. We know this will be disappointing for many and we are very conscious that the Regatta has

By S E Burt  Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the natural world and the effect humans have on it. Global Warming, deforestation, biodiversity, greenwashing, carbon footprint, are all familiar terms – but what do they actually mean? Biodiversity for example, means the variety and abundance of life on Earth, but in

A Cycle/footbridge at Thameside Sunbury. Has its moment arrived? The consultation on potential river crossing sites in the Sunbury area was undertaken over a period in excess of four months in 2015 (see Home Page of www.losra.org). A total of 911 residents on both sides of the River Thames submitted their views as a part

By Monica Chard  …So says Shepperton’s Carole Boyd, whose alter ego, Lynda Snell, has provided us with such an entertaining character on air for the past 35 years of The Archers.  Lynda Snell is one of the village stalwarts. She will always rise to the occasion when a cause needs a champion. With her superior

Aryan Bhanot is a 17 year old student at Tiffins. He lives in Sunbury and wanted so share with readers the experience of lock down on his age group.  Everything that I expected 2020 to be, was anything but a series of unfortunate events. It was meant to be a stressful but exciting year to

Well, at least we have won one battle. With the ever-growing threat of two 6 storey blocks over-looking residential areas at the top of Green Street, the name of the unpopular development has been changed. It WAS to be named Ceaser Court in memory of Gerry Ceaser, as an honour to the memory of a