Anyone who has visited Thames Court, or walked along the towpath in Shepperton, can’t have failed to notice the iconic Shepperton ‘resident’ looking out wistfully across Shepperton lock from the balcony of a modern house. The Blues Brothers figure has even been used as a clue on a Shepperton treasure hunt trail. He has sat […]
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By Sunbury & Shepperton Rotary It has been a frustrating time, but everyone was so enthusiastic to get going again, for all the charities involved, many of which have struggled with lower donations and higher costs during the pandemic. Due to Covid 19, Shepperton & Sunbury Rotary had to defer this walk from May to
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Covid has been the last straw for Sharon Johnson. She set up and has been running the ever busy Shepperton Hedgehog Sanctuary in Old Charlton Road for 10 years. Hedgehogs were tak-en in with injuries, dehydration or abandoned young who needed feeding night and day. With increasing demand she increased the capacity and took on
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Well, hopefully some of you may have seen some summer sun. May be the summer is just late. Let’s hope! The recent months have seen an in-crease in bicycle theft, both from the street and from bur-glaries of garages. If you have a bike, especially if it is expensive, please consider registering it on bike
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Prepare for Spring! By Rachael Leverton September is the time to plan your spring bulb purchases. The best selections always sell out quickly and it’s frustrating when the prettiest crocuses and tulips are not available. If you’re planting bulbs for the first time, or in a new area of the garden it helps to have
Lord’s Bridge Pond (above) is on Halliford School land to the west of Church Road, across the road from Manor Park. This unique local ecological and environmental space is sheltered and populated with lots of native plants which support the wildlife there. Work has taken place occasionally over the decades, most recently a sympathetic clean-up
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By Monica Chard Our hair is our crowning glory. We style it, dye it and embellish it as a sign of who we are. It gives us confidence. It’s often a statement. So imagine losing it! What can be done to reverse the problem? Alopecia is a familiar term which we may understand as meaning
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St Andrew’s Baptist Church, Upper Halliford welcomes their new Pastor Tom Hoyles and his wife Wyn to their church fellowship after being without a Pastor for over 3 ½ years. The Induction service will be Sunday 19th September 2021 10.30am and all are welcome. Pastor Tom Hoyles brings a wealth of experience with him having
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In the last issue of this magazine, we told you we were planning to restart our service from 5th July. I am pleased to say we achieved that. There have been some teething problems – definitely much easier to stop than to restart. Hopefully, all the clients have managed to contact us and receive the
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Hello again from your Local Residents’ Association! Through all the disruption that the Covid pan-demic has caused over the past 18 months or so, we hope that you are keeping safe and well and are now managing some degree of normality in your lives. With the development of the vaccine and the ensuing pro-gramme of
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Few readers of these pages will be unaware of the flurry of excitement over the Shepperton Medical Centre. And as the world opens up to renewed human contacts it is good that your Residents Association is able to offer an Open Meeting on Tuesday 21st September in the Village Hall of Shepperton when members of
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You might have noticed a new story board which has gone up at the Lord’s Bridge pock-et garden on the corner of the high street and Renfree Way. The little garden continues to astound us. It has grown in maturity and beauty and is such a great addition to our community. The story board tells
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By Nick Pollard The building in the photo is familiar today as part of the Riverside Arts Centre in Thames Street, Sunbury, but for many years it was the village bank. This, the first bank in Sunbury, was opened in 1883 by Thomas Ashby and Co, who had been founded in Staines in 1796 (another
Walking down the high street one Monday morning recently I saw our intrepid Jean, picking up bags from outside the QEF charity shop (closed on a Monday) and putting them in her rub-bish cart. “Look at it all!” she said. Boxes, bags and furniture, left outside the shop and literally spilling across the pavement. This
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By Rory Edwards Rory Edwards is a local parent, teacher of 28 years and a school governor. He offers us an insight into certain dilemmas parents might face at the start of the new academic year. This summer holiday has been slightly different in our household in preparation for the new academic year. So, what
Thank you to local residents Mr and Mrs Morgan, who contacted Shepperton Matters with their story of ‘Belgie’ the racing pigeon. “In the middle of July this year we found a tagged racing pigeon in our garden which seemed to be limping badly. We caught it and discovered racing bands on it’s leg along with
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After the lockdowns and restrictions of the past two years Thamesmead School are looking forward to welcoming visitors back to see us. Our response to the pandemic was widely praised by our parent and student community as we led the way and delivered live teaching via Microsoft Teams from the earliest days of the first
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Despite the heat there was a fantastic array of plants donated or offered as swaps at the first get2getherlocally Pop Up Plant Swap on Saturday 17th July held in Staines. Many came to enjoy the afternoon and a fine array of herbs, vegetables, fruits plus indoor and outdoor plants were swapped and everyone was pleased
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This year sees Halliford School mark its Centenary, and at the centre of its celebrations is the construction of a new building on site. The school was delighted that Spelthorne Borough Council approved their ambitious plans for a new 805 sq. m teaching building. The ethos of Halliford School is founded on being a smaller
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Laleham has a local hero. Tom Barras shows off his silver medal from the Men’s Quadruple Sculls at the Tokyo Olympics. Tom was coached by Burway’s Jim Mathiesen when he was a teenager. He started at Burway when he was only 11. John Biddle, Burway’s club president was lucky to be working at the Olympic
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