Shepperton Matters

Continuing our celebration of local scenes we are pleased to share this months local captures, taken by local residents. Thanks to this months contributors Lucy Hayes, Alex Hardy Photos to monica@villagematters.co.uk 

By Monica Chard  We all know the boat ‘Jeannette’, at the end of the high street. And you will no doubt have noticed the tended beds and boxes outside our shops. What about the hanging baskets which embellish our community, bringing us cheer as we do our shopping in the high street? And the flowering

Jan Lancaster (pictured) decided she needed to find a focus during lockdown last year. She had retired from a career in office management some 4 years earlier, but lockdown gave her time to think. She decided that at the marvellous age of 67 she was going to launch her first business. What a brilliant thing

Thanks to a number of locals who contacted me to tell me about their vaccination experiences. By all accounts, it is a relatively simple procedure, painless and without side effects. The actual process of booking seems to have a few things to iron out. One reader told us that he had initially received a letter

By Monica Chard  Hardy by name and hardy by nature! Sheppertonian and former Halliford pupil, Alex Hardy set himself a challenge before Christmas of walking 1500 miles in 100 days. He is walking locally, so you may spot him (you may know him from his job in Prezzo in fact). He tells me his target

By Bob Speel, Church Monument Researcher  There are over 40 ancient churches in West London surviving from the lost county of Middle-sex, with St Nicholas Church in Shepperton the most southerly. Like most of them, it contains interesting wall monuments. Visiting churches to see the monuments is not a hobby to pursue now, alas, but

By Nigel Scott  I noted your comment about Sea Eagles over Shepperton in the January edition. The Sea Eagles released by the Roy Dennis Founda-tion in the Isle of Wight ranged far and wide over the UK this summer, one even flew back to Scotland where it had been born!  Birdwatch magazine last year reported

By Barbara Unsworth, Big Tree Night Committee  The Big Tree Night Committee would like to take this belated opportunity to extend Happy New Year wishes for 2021 to you all. To overcome the diffi-culties that Covid 19 have presented we still have challenging times ahead of us. With the vaccination being rolled out we are

By John Taylor  Some readers, may recall with nostalgia the Festival of Britain, perhaps attend-ing the main events at the South Bank London, or going to the funfair at Bat-tersea. It was in 1951, just six years after the end of World War Two, that the event was held to celebrate the British contribution to

Last August it became clear that driving through France would not be possible, so we sold the car, fin-ished packing up the house and took a plane from Heathrow to Pisa. Freight was still allowed so our belongings ar-rived three days later, just time enough for us to paint a room. Getting to Coreglia before

It’s that time of year again, when the season’s change to give nature a chance to re-cover its strength, renew re-serves, and get ready for the dawn of a new season in a couple of months.  The picture shows the pond just after the rains resulting in a minor flood around the site. Part of