Hoe Hoe Hoe! By Rachael Leverton Following on from last month’s list of essential garden tools for beginners I thought I’d explain about the humble hoe. When I first started gardening, I didn’t really understand how to use one. There are a couple of varieties of hoe and they are used in different ways, and […]
By Monica Chard By now, many of you will know about the fabulous surplus food stall, which is run out of Sunbury Cricket Club at weekends (12-2). Maybe you have come away from a visit there with a big bag of bread and pastries or a bag of veg, or if you are lucky, or
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Thanks to this months contributors. Do email photos to monica@villagematters.co.uk And consider entering the Capture Spelthorne competition 2021 run by the council: www.spelthorne.gov.uk/capture It’s free to enter and closes August 31st.
By Nick Pollard This postcard of the Three Horseshoes pub, at the southern end of Shepperton High Street, can be accurately dated to 1927. This is because in the background can be seen the newly-built Lordsbridge House, which was completed that year (the date is on a plaque over the central doorway). There is a
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Have you renewed your membership or are you yet to join the Lower Sunbury Resi-dents’ Association? It’s been many months since our volunteers (some of whom are elderly or otherwise clini-cally vulnerable) have been safe enough to deliver our seasonal newsletters door-to-door. Subject to government advice we hope to be back to normal in the
By Monica Chard The Avenue boasts the most magnificent mature chestnut trees. As well as the large houses, the trees themselves are one of the attractions of this premier road in Lower Sunbury. But the sad fact is, many of these trees are being felled due to disease. Slowly, slowly, they are coming down. That
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Do you want to start, develop, and grow your business in a cost effective and vibrant loca-tion with fellow entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses with the added benefit of mentoring, training, networking opportunities and FREE broadband with speeds up to 1GB? If the answer is yes then The Spelthorne Hub could be the ideal location
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10 years ago this month, some of you will have received issue 1 of a new community maga-zine called Sunbury Matters. It started as a 32 page magazine, delivered by children of friends of mine, to only 2000 homes. I never looked back! I had left a very well-paid career in TV sales in London.
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The front door may be closed to public meetings, but we are very much alive behind the scenes just waiting for the ‘all clear’ siren to sound. Our groups have been staying in touch by various electronic means and I see that already the Flower Club, the Coffee Concert, Riverside Arts Jazz and Riverside Players
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By Patricia Stone Carawagon Ltd was situated opposite Thames Street car park on Thames Street, where Oxford Row now stands. It serviced motor cara-vans. I worked there in the 1970’s for Mr Searle, who was the owner and Mr Robin Wil-son-Webb (son of Wilson-Webb who had an electrical shop in Thames Street. As an aside
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As of Monday 15th February, 4,151 of our patients have been vaccinated with their first Covid jab. We would like to thank our patients for their patience as we continue to send out vaccination invitations moving through the cohorts following the government vaccination plan. We are working closely with our local GP Federation (NICS) who
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By Alan Doyle For the most part we are content to leave the administration of the Borough to councillors and Council officials. But every so often an issue arises which commands local attention, usually because a decision has been taken, unilaterally, which leaves those directly af-fected decidedly not content. Think back over recent years, just
By Nigel Scott I noted your comment about Sea Eagles over Shepperton in the January edition. The Sea Eagles released by the Roy Dennis Founda-tion in the Isle of Wight ranged far and wide over the UK this summer, one even flew back to Scotland where it had been born! Birdwatch magazine last year reported
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Bob Noble, Shepperton Aurora Rotary Club Dealing with bereavement has had to take a very different path during the pandemic. Loved ones have often been unable to be with the person who is dying or, possibly more importantly, be with other members of the close family who would normally provide strength and support at such
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia There is a lot going on in Spelthorne at the moment . The most reports that we receive are about anti social behaviour. Most people do not even see this as a crime. How-ever, continued anti social behav-iour can create many tensions in commu-nities and make people desperate to move homes,
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A reader contacted us in great excitement last month. He was reading the piece on the disastrous fire at Kempton Park in 1932 when the grandstand was destroyed by fire. “I think I have some of the old grandstand as my porch”, he said. So, I went round to have a look. Kempton Avenue is
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By Andrew Peters As highlighted in many national newspaper articles over the past 12 months, Spelthorne Council has been in the vanguard of a phalanx of local authori-ties borrowing to invest in property. The evidence of this strategy is plain to see with our own eyes in the form of the re-development of the Benwell
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From Spelthorne Borough Council Capture Spelthorne, Spelthorne Borough Council’s photography competition, is start-ing in March, we are looking for the best pho-tographs of the Borough. This is a great opportunity for you to embrace the outdoors, explore our beautiful Borough and showcase your photography skills. The overall winner will see their photo as the cov-er
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Tools of the Trade The right tools make gardening easier, and in my opinion you should buy the best you can afford then look after them so they will last many years. But which tools are essential? Gloves – Gardening is hard on the hands. Weeds, roots and digging are brutal on the skin. Buy
We are all guilty of having clutter in our cup-boards. How many of us have an old laptop sitting around gathering dust? Well, now is the chance to put them to good use. Home schooling and remote learning has un-covered the needs of many families who do not have access to basic equipment. Assistant Head
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