Salvation Army Opens Doors
We have all passed Sunbury Court, the imposing building on Lower Hampton Road. But how many of us know much about it, let alone visited it?
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Sunbury Matters Articles
The Cowper-Coles Aircraft Company
Following on from the article about Rossall House in Thames Street, Sunbury, in April’s ‘Sunbury Matters’, I thought readers might be interested to learn of an earlier company which operated from the premises.
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Property for sale: the Hawke House Estate 1936
In the March edition of Sunbury /Shepperton Matters I appealed for readers who had sales brochures for interwar housing schemes to get in touch. Sincere thanks to those who did. This short article is based on the 1936 prospectus for the Hawke House Estate.
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End of an Era
In the early sixties young women usually gave up work and stayed at home to care for their children. This meant that they relied on the friends they made at the baby clinic.
We Bid A Fond Farewell
You may already be aware that we are losing a Sunbury stalwart. Father Paul Davies will be leaving his post of vicar of St Mary’s Sunbury in mid April to take off to warmer climes. He has been appointed to a role in Doha, Qatar.
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Life is a Bowl of Cherries
It’s been eight years since Sunbury resident John Carey’s painful episodes of gout led him to halt a successful career as a financing manager and start to build a cherry juice business.
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A New Lease for Vintage
Last year I went to the Goodwood Revival. It was like stepping back in time. It was not just the classic cars that gave it the nostalgic spirit, it was the spectators.
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The PIM Board Works, Sunbury
The photograph of the PIM works at Sunbury Cross dates from just over a century ago, and shows the factory originally established in the late 19th century by Frederick Walton, inventor of Linoleum floor covering.
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Official guide to Sunbury on Thames
“Sunbury on Thames is primarily a residential resort of a quiet and reposeful type. It would indeed be difficult to find a more ideal spot in which to settle.”
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Full Post Office Service – 7 Days a Week
Good news, people of Sunbury. There have been changes at Skinners at 5,The Avenue. You will have noticed it has had a face lift. But there is more. The Post Office is now open seven days a week.
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A Craftsman at Work – Meeting Brian Alvey
I wonder how many youngsters today are considering a career as a violin bow maker. But when the youth employment people came to visit his school, this was an option put to local resident Brian Alvey.
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Magna Carta River Pageant Registrations
2015 will see the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta celebrated locally. To mark the occasion, there will be, amongst other activities, a boat pageant on the Thames. Thames Alive, the group behind the Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012, is organising the event.
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Swan Sanctuary Founder receives MBE
Dorothy Beeson has been awarded an MBE in 2015 in recognition of her work looking after sick and injured swans from all over the UK, for founding the first purpose built registered veterinary hospital for water birds in the UK, and for advising on swan welfare requests from all over the world.
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Kempton Park Development – Your Chance to Ask
You will perhaps be aware of plans afoot to create a large housing development of up to 1500 homes on green belt at Kempton Park. We have carried several articles about concerns regarding density, infrastructure and traffic.
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Bringing History to Life
Many of you shopping in Shepperton may well know of local butcher Stephen Aldridge’s favourite pastime. He likes dressing up. To be precise he spends many of his weekends dressing up for battle, doing what an increasing number of adults throughout the country enjoy: He takes part in historical re enactments.
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Restaurant Review – The Warren Lodge Hotel
2014 was a pretty grim year for The Warren Lodge Hotel. First the floods, which restricted access to the hotel, then a fire in April gutted the kitchen. The kitchen reopened just before Christmas, so we went along to see the changes and sample the menu.
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Sunbury Riverside c1950s
On the face of it this 1950s postcard of Sunbury riverside doesn’t look a lot different to the present day, but closer inspection reveals quite a few changes. The most obvious is the large white house by the river.
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Through the eyes of a child
It was February 2014. The Thames was in flood it was cold and misty. My family was very worried because our house was very close to being flooded by the torrential flow of the river…
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Eco Park Update
As readers are probably aware (although many local residents are still not!), Surrey County Council recently gave itself planning permission again to build the massive Eco Park waste disposal incinerator in Charlton Lane, Shepperton, despite massive local opposition, which Surrey CC just seem to ignore time and time again for their own reasons. Sadly Secretary
Dear Father Christmas
The Art of Letter Writing is not dead after all. It seems that Santa receives an estimated 550,000 letters each year, sent to Lapland of course. Do your children still write letters to Santa?
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Questions for Bishop of Kensington
An insightful questions and answers interview with Bishop of Kensington.
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