Merry Christmas everyone! Although Big Tree Night was cancelled this year, a small group of volunteers have been hard at work over the last few months – taking orders for Christmas Trees from our High Street traders – so that the street can light up at the beginning of December. CHRISTMAS in Shepperton has not […]
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Thank you to Laurie Burrell for sharing his experi-ence on November 14th when he had the opportunity to attend the Royal British Legion Cenotaph Parade as a representative of the Soldiers Sailors Airman Family Association (SSAFA) of which he is a Surrey Branch member for Spelthorne and Runnymede. Our instructions for the day from SSAFA
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We attended the official opening of the new Woodward Building at Halliford School last month. What a fabulous addition this is. From start to finish the three storey building went up in 21 weeks. The design is modular, cho-sen to be the fastest build with the least im-pact on locals. Named after school Chair of
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New Service and Christmas Hours We are pleased to say we are getting a good number of requests for our services, following our restart in July, although some days our drivers have little, or nothing to do. One area where we are not getting requests is to take clients to the Health Centres for GP
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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 throughout the school year. Over the past few weeks, we have been look-ing at different schools as our middle daughter is now in year 11. She is
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By Nick Pollard Halliford School was founded in 1921 as Shepperton Grammar School, and occupied a building in Laleham Road, just by the present junction with Manor Farm Avenue. It provid-ed education for boys and girls from the ages of 5 to 14. The school was founded and owned by the first Headmaster, Alfred Dobree
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By Ken Battle Lists of Iron Age hoards in Great Britain make reference to the ‘Sunbury’ Hoard, but a more accurate description would have been the Shepperton Hoard. The confusion arose when Mr. A.J. Buttress, the Surveyor for the Sunbury Urban District Council, reported the discovery in April 1950 to the old London Museum, who unfortunately
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by Bill Cunningham What I want for Christmas Please Santa So far I have not spotted a Scamometer for sale for Christmas and if it existed then it would be a scam, not reaching us after pay-ment. If only we could input letters, emails, texts and voice mails to a box and it warned us
By Monica Chard | Photos: Nicola Ann Photography It was a night of glitz, glamour and excite-ment. Finally, after two years, we were back and celebrating the cream of Spelthorne business-es at the Spelthorne Business Awards. I know personally how important this event is as a local business, as Village Matters had been crowned both
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia With the festive sea-son arriving, we see a rise of some certain crimes. One of those crimes is theft of bi-cycles. Everyone is looking for a bargain, but please don’t be tempted to buy a bi-cycle from a local advert if you do not meet the person at their home address
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At the end of 2019, we attended a climate change day at the River-house Barn in Walton. One of the highlights of the day was the chil-dren’s choir We Are The Voice, who performed songs written by choir leader Niamh Clune. We raved about them, saying they should go on Britain’s Got Talent. Well how
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It has been a busy month or so for the Shepperton Residents’ Association (SRA). On the 21st September, we had the first Open Meeting in the Village Hall for well over a year due to the pandemic and all that! Shepperton Med-ical Centre was the main subject of discussion and there were 7 members of
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We, at Shepperton Matters, have always cham-pioned the Spelthorne in Bloom initiative. Gardens give so much pleasure, brighten our borough and the benefits all round for mental health and well being is well documented. Shepperton and Laleham did extremely well this year; The Three Horseshoes won 1st place in the small pubs category. Laleham won
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By Peter Hughes, Patients Participation Group As promised in these columns 2 months ago, the Patient Participation Group arranged with the Shepperton Residents Association that doctors, and the Practice Manager, would speak to the public in the Village Hall on Sep-tember 21st. The first to speak was Dr Rogers, who had been 33 years in
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The Ivory Tusk, Shepperton The pleasure of eating out with friends is something we have had to live without for a very long time. All fine to have a take away and someone else cooking your dinner, but a meal out is so much more of an event. The pleasure of being served and being
With the increase in domestic violence and escalating need for shelter for the vulnerable who may be sleeping rough, Spelthorne Council have invested some of their profits from their housing portfolio to build a be-spoke shelter. The White House (which is not in fact white, nor a house!) is situated next to the new Spelthorne
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You can’t help but notice as you walk along Church Road and look over the fence towards what used to be the ‘swamp’ adjacent to Halliford School playing fields, that there has been a transformation. The project is still work in progress and the green slime needs to be tackled, but the force of volunteers
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By Nick Pollard With the former police station in Staines Road East, Sunbury, being converted into flats, I thought it would be an opportune moment to look at the history of policing in Sunbury. The photo shows the staff of 5 sergeants and 2 acting sergeants (with two stripes) surrounded by 18 constables in front
By Will Hardy In recent years I’ve put together a series of local history talks at St Mary Magdalene Church, Littleton, just around the corner from Shepperton Film Studios. It has all been great fun, and I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported them, helped out, and made them possible. During the pandemic, I have
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By Monica Chard The Spelthorne Business Competi-tion, brain child of Business Secre-tary and Spelthorne MP Kwasi Kwarteng, is in it’s 7th year. We gathered at the BP learning centre in late September to hear the Drag-on Den style pitches from 6 final-ists, made to a panel of local busi-ness leaders. Once more, the stand-ard of
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia The crime of this month is theft from motor vehicles. It is still so surprising how many people leave their cars on their drives un-locked. What is more surprising is that they also leave their car full of valuable items such as expensive sun-glasses, mobile phones and satnavs, cash, even wallets
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