The Light Fantastic If I say ‘winter garden’ what do you imagine? A stately home? Evergreen shrubs? Topiary maybe? It dawned on me a few years ago when I was out walking the dog on a frosty morning that winter gardens are really all about the light. From late autumn through the winter there is […]
By Nick Pollard This month’s picture, taken from a postcard of c1910, shows the ferry just downstream from Shepperton Lock, and the sharp bend (as it still is today) where Ferry Lane meets the Towpath. Be-side the ferry boat, punts and skiffs for hire, be-longing to Dunton’s boatyard, can be seen moored along the bank.
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Halliford School announced a 100% pass rate in LAMDA exams at the end of last year. 19 Halliford students took ex-ams in either acting, verse and prose, or mime, securing an impressive 11 distinctions, 7 merits and 2 passes. Halliford are so proud of Sixth Former, Robert Pleasance (pictured right with headmaster Mr Davies), who
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Who could not have noticed the disgusting stink from the Eco Park last month? Walking across the beautiful Sunbury golf club during lockdown was a delight, but the choking stink from the chimney really spoiled it. So many people on social media commented on it from all around the area. So, did you report it?
We always love seeing local photos taken by you. Thanks to this months contributors. We are getting more and more images every month. Keep them coming and see them in print in Sunbury Matters: monica@villagematters.co.uk
The Spelthorne Borough Council’s annual Capture Spelthorne photographic competi-tion attracted 300 entries. 15 shortlisted photographs were published in the Spelthorne Bulletin in December and the winners have now been announced and informed. Winners of the categories are as follows: My Spelthorne: Monica Chard (yes….me!) Spelthorne in Action: Joanna Ginger Through the Seasons: John Harris Spelthorne
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Ceaser Court Monstrosity– Tribute to namesake Flouts Rules By Local Resident Andrew Peters This stinks! Many of you will have seen the con-version of Benwell House on Green Street, from a 3 storey office to a 6 storey block of flats. Fair enough you may think as we need more dwellings. Unfortunately, the Council’s plans
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At the start of the pandemic we reported on a young man from Sunbury who had the brilliant idea of offering tutoring free of charge. Jacob Kelly’s Coronavirus Tutoring Initiative drew on the resources of 4000 volunteer university students who pro-vided 25,000 hours of free online 1:1 tutoring for school pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds across
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Fabric of Our Time – 250 Years of World History Make sure you get to see this stunning exhibi-tion while it is in Sunbury. We are lucky to have this world class work on show. On until 21st February 2021. Hand & Lock have 250 years experience em-bellishing, embroidering and monogramming garments for the Royal
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Springfield Primary School has been on an exciting journey to develop outside learning to enhance learning, right across the curriculum. This has had a wide range of associated benefits, including promoting children’s well-being. The development of the allotment area has enabled children to have a more hands on curriculum that includes horticulture and bio-diversity as
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Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust This month we’d like to take the opportunity to share the story of Sean Fitzpatrick who was a pa-tient at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey and the Brad-ley Neuro-rehabilitation unit, which is run by Ash-ford and St Peter’s Hospitals, located within Woking Community Hospital. Before becoming unwell, Sean
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By Kacie Thomson, SUEZ We would like to reassure the community that emissions from the Eco Park are mostly steam (the largest and only visible emission), with oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and tiny amounts of pollutants that must comply with the Environment Agency’s (EA) permitted limits and strict EU regulations. Steam is an odourless, colourless
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This rather fancy bike rack was put up in Sun-bury in July. We are all being encouraged to leave the car behind and use our own feet or cycle. So this sounds like a good idea in principle. But the double decker bike rack in the car park remains largely empty. Why? Perhaps we all
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Suzanne Rankin, Chief Executive at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust It is always im-portant to look after ourselves during the colder months, but it is even more im-portant that we take extra care this year as we face our first win-ter period with COVID-19. We can already see that COVID is changing
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia Moving towards Christmas and a time to feast and celebrate and watch lots of TV, or are some of you think-ing that’ what I have been doing through-out Lockdown any-way! But some people have been busier than others getting out and about in stolen and cloned vehicle committing burglaries and stealing
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On Thames Street in Sunbury on Thames, you’ll spot the Shahin Indian restaurant that has been serving cus-tomers in and around the area for a very long time. When the owner, Shubin Ahchanuhaq spoke to Rotarian Geoff Williams, what neither realised was that it would lead to one of the restaurants biggest ‘take-away’ deliv-eries …
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I have recently taken on the role within Spelthorne Borough Council of town centres manager for Ashford, Shepper-ton and Sunbury and I am really looking forward to meeting and working with the people and businesses that make these towns ‘tick’. My role is to act as a focal point to assist in all the good
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By Tracey Anderson Think of winter in the garden and you’ll most likely think of a robin. Think of Christmas cards and you’ll probably think of the same. Why do robins have such a strong association with winter? There is actually an increase in robin numbers during the winter months. They migrate from Scandinavia, Russia
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Local resident Georgie Thomas lives in Sunbury. Her hobby is mak-ing mosaics for the home and garden. When we were in lockdown earlier this year she made a rainbow heart which she raffled to raise money for the NHS Combined Charities. It raised £120 and went to a lady in Hanworth. Having always wanted to
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By Nick Pollard Christmas this year is going to seem very different to the usual festivities, with restrictions on church going, meeting up with friends and family, shopping or even getting away from it all on winter breaks. Spare a thought though, for the inhabitants of Sunbury village in 1879, when the day’s events got
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Many of us may blame the current litter scourge on ignorance, bad upbringing or lazy youngers. So how about this then?! The num-ber of mini litter pickers is on the increase. Parents are getting involved with their chil-dren, setting a great example and showing how lovely it is to keep our village clean. Thanks to
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