Now that lockdown is over (July now, I assume) and our shops and hospitality outlets are already back to (nearly) normal, we must use our High Street, as much as we can! Our businesses need our full support now, to keep the heart of Shepperton beating strongly, after the most traumatic period in recent memory. […]
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This is definitely good news for you walkers out there. Sunbury is following in the footsteps of Shepperton and Hampton and introducing a ferry to join it to the Walton bank and the footpath along the Thames. Made possible because of a lot of cooperation and support from various parties, including Spelthorne Council, The Middle
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By Nick Pollard Creek House is situated in the Chertsey Road, Shepperton, just to the west of Church Square and on the north bank of the creek which feeds into the Thames at Ferry Square, and gives the house its name. It’s an attractive Arts and Crafts style house, dating in its present form to
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By Laurie Burrell On Friday the 11th of June 2021, an important event took place at The Burlington Resi-dential Care Home, Manygate Lane, Shepperton, when Mrs Pat Burrell, one of the last Chairman of the ‘Friends of The Bradbury Centre Residen-tial Care Home’ visited The Burlington to celebrate the installation of the cabinet and cross
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The following is an extract of the online article by Nick Pollard There have been ferries crossing the River Thames for centuries, way before there were bridges of any kind. Sunbury has had its fair share over the years. Records show a Sunbury ferry was in existence at least as early as 1604 and there
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Ashford and St. Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust are delighted to have embarked on a brilliant new partnership with Egham Or-bit to provide musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy services for a variety of exercises and education rehabilitation classes. Providing these services at Egham Orbit will enable us to utilise state of the art facilities for our rehab clinics,
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I am writing from my own experience and opinion here, but I hope the essence of what I feel makes some sense. I wonder if you know of a great charitable scheme offered by Amazon and available to us all. I am scandalised at the clever tax arrangements that many tech companies seem to have
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Local author Victoria Scott will fulfill a lifetime ambition when her first novel, Patience, is pub-lished in hardback and ebook on August 5th. Victoria first began writing Pa-tience in her spare time a decade ago, fitting her passion around her day journalist day job. How-ever, she stopped writing the novel after the birth of her
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Local family support charity, Home-Start Spelthorne was launched in April 1986 and 25 years later is still providing support for young families with children under the age of 5. Over the last 25 years, 36 Volunteer Prepa-ration Courses have been run and 223 volun-teers have been recruited. This has enabled over 2000 families to receive
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Surrey based author George S Boughton has written a beautifully illustrated book called Dennis to Alice. It is an enchanting and enter-taining book set locally in Surrey and tackles the important subjectof conservation. It is certain to appeal to both families and children Dennis to Alice is far more than a picture book, it is
By Monica Chard It has been a long time coming, but finally, the Incubator Hub, to support Spelthorne small businesses and entrepreneurs, has been officially opened. The slogan is Dream it. Do it. It opens the opportunity to new business owners to follow their dreams of running their own business, but offers the support of
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By Tracy Moore, Neighbourhood Watch and Bill Cunningham, Scamwatch Neighbourhood Watch – Catalytic Converter Thefts By Tracy Moore We continue to see catalytic converter theft across Shepperton with another 4 in May being stolen,: Halliford Road, (Honda Accord); Charlton Lane, (Honda Jazz); Bruce Avenue, (Honda Jazz); Hetherington Road, (Honda CR-V) Catalytic converters are targeted because
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By Monica Chard Why was I up at 5.30am? I kept wondering, until the sun came over the horizon and threw a golden glow over Chertsey bridge and the river as I drove towards Laleham. Pure magic and worth getting up to see. But I was up to meet the Win the Morning Win the
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By The Woodland Trust Whether planting for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, to help tackle climate change, or to improve local areas around the country, the Woodland Trust’s popu-lar free tree pack scheme is now open for applications. Schools and community groups across the South East are now able to apply for the first 1 million
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There is a new tea room opened locally which is well worth a visit. Dramatize tea room is in the little square of shops on Hetherington Road and is very special. It has been set up to support adults with learning disabilities who are being trained in the hospitality sector. Sunbury Matters took a relaxed
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By Monica Chard Here we have a very different view of Shepperton. It is the creation of local, Denise Rossell-Jones and it was brought to my attention by a friend and neigh-bour. In the painting Shepperton is represent-ed by landmarks and areas which make our home town. See how many you can spot: Shepperton studios,
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Spelthorne Borough Council recently honoured 11 volunteers at the Civic Trust Awards, which honours residents for their voluntary service in the Borough. Spelthorne Civic Award Trust recognise individuals who have given at least 12 years’ service to volunteering in the Borough. Between them this year’s winners have given more 100 years of service to the
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia Summer is here. Well whilst I am writing this piece for July and August it is absolutely pouring with rain and its Midsum-mers day or Sum-mer Solstice. It saddens me to say that as we come out of lockdown we have seen an in-crease in violent crime. There has been a
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The Holiday Inn, Shepperton, has been taking advantage of lockdown to undergo an extensive modernisation. Not one area of it will be untouched and the plans are definitely exciting. We visited in June, on a hard hat tour of the premises. There are two defined areas of the building; the hotel, with new reception desk,
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Saving Water In spite of the somewhat soggy spring water is an increasingly precious resource in the UK. Over the past few decades, rivers, reservoirs, and ground water supplies have become depleted. It’s important to save water where we can. Most of us have enough space for at least one water butt, and there are
