By Laurie Burrell Sweet pea seeds which are easily available in your local gardening centres are of a good quality and the choices they stock are mainly popular varieties and colours their customers tend to purchase. One word of caution in growing your own plants from seeds is that you might lose ten percent of …
By Nick Pollard This postcard reminds us that floods do not only happen in the winter. There had been a heavy fall of snow in April 1908 (you may remember we had a day when it snowed heavily just last month), and when it melted in May, the Thames flooded badly. The scene is looking …
For over a year now we have all had to spend most of our lives at home, under lock down, with a short stroll to the shops or a brief walk round the block. With changes starting to happen and life beginning to slowly return to normal, the Rotary Club of Shepperton and Sunbury are …
By Neil Huntingford A Ferry for Sunbury moves a step closer and your chance to be involved! Those of you who can remember pre-Covid, may recall that there was talk of developing a ferry service between Lower Sunbury and Elmbridge, opening up a much needed local link across the River Thames. In fact, Spelthorne Borough …
By Julia Stevenson Healthcare Support Workers play a vital role in caring for patients throughout their time in hospital, and work alongside teams of nurses and other healthcare professionals across a variety of settings. Julia Steven-son currently works at the Trust as a Bank Healthcare Support Worker and has shared her thoughts on what it …
Yes, another charity shop in Shepperton high street, but this one is different. Home from Home Reuse Service is a registered charity (Registration No. 1179824) which aims to reduce waste by reusing unwanted goods. They have taken the unit which was Top Tune by the Big Tree and you may have noticed an ever increasing …
With the government roadmap helping us to come safely out of lockdown, we still request you contact us from home instead of attending the practice in order to keep you and our staff safe from coronavirus. We have kept the practice as open as possible despite the Covid restrictions – since the pandemic started last …
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 Inspector Maxine Cilia Our latest project around Catalytic Converters had an overwhelming response. I am so pleased that so many of you want to get involved in crime prevention. Letters went out to local residents who were known to own one of the top two cars subjected to Catalytic Converter thefts and we had …
Hello to all members of SU3A especially if we have not been able to meet during the last year. Spelthorne U3A is still here for you and awaiting a time when meetings and groups get back together. However, if you are reading this and hearing of SU3A for the first time let me pique your …
Purple Sprouting Broccoli by Rachael Leverton Purple Sprouting Broccoli is a beautiful, tasty addition to the dinner table, and the garden. It has a great flavour, a long harvesting season and is nutritionally beneficial. A single portion provides half your daily requirement of carotenoids, plus high levels of folic acid and vitamins A and C. …
By Russell Grant This year Middlesex Day on May 16th was to be held at the Middlesex Regiment Memorial at St Mary’s Church, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Sadly Covid has put paid to that. But let’s take this chance to find out what Middlesex Day is. It was Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher who, unknowingly, began the …
We had a call from a local resident who had found an injured hedgehog on the back lawn. It was daytime which was unusual, and the animal was not moving. So she called the RSPCA who came and had a look. It turned out that the poor little thing had sustained a serious injury to …
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 …
Last summer, a broadcast by David Sedaris on his obsession with litter picking caught the imagination of Shirley Lunn. A keen walker herself, she had noticed the growing amount of litter which was spoiling our community. She put a post out on Facebook asking if any-one fancied getting involved, thinking she might get a dozen …
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 …
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 …
Suzanne Rankin, Chief Executive at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Over one year on from the very first lock-down of this pandemic, there is some good news. As the number of daily infections in the UK continues to decline, we have started to take the first steps out of the third lockdown …
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 …
