Local resident Kate Thompson has already featured in Sunbury Matters as her house on Thames Street boasts a huge bread oven, used by villagers in the 18th-19th century (issue 87, May 2018). Kate Thompson is now researching another interesting piece of history relating to her house. Her trusty postie pointed out to her that her […]
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Sunbury Skiff & Punting Club (SSPC) has found a new home just next door to its previous launch site at Desborough Sailing Club (DSC). It is a great and exciting move for both clubs. SSPC were previously leasing land from the owners of Ferris Meadow between DSC and the popular Shepperton open water swimming lake.
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Earmarked originally for a relief road around Sunbury, this land was generally known locally by its code name TP26. It is a narrow strip of land that runs from Bramwell Close in the east to Green Street in the west, crossing French Street and The Avenue en route. It is probably 2/3 mile long. It
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By Laurie Burrell Sweet pea seeds which are easily available in your local gardening centres are of a good quality and the choices they stock are mainly popular varieties and colours their customers tend to purchase. One word of caution in growing your own plants from seeds is that you might lose ten percent of
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For over a year now we have all had to spend most of our lives at home, under lock down, with a short stroll to the shops or a brief walk round the block. With changes starting to happen and life beginning to slowly return to normal, the Rotary Club of Shepperton and Sunbury are
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By Julia Stevenson Healthcare Support Workers play a vital role in caring for patients throughout their time in hospital, and work alongside teams of nurses and other healthcare professionals across a variety of settings. Julia Steven-son currently works at the Trust as a Bank Healthcare Support Worker and has shared her thoughts on what it
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With the government roadmap helping us to come safely out of lockdown, we still request you contact us from home instead of attending the practice in order to keep you and our staff safe from coronavirus. We have kept the practice as open as possible despite the Covid restrictions – since the pandemic started last
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It’s up to us to keep our local shops alive and thriving Numerous planner, architect and developer trade organisations have expressed dismay at a government announcement last month that permitted development rights (PDR) will be expanded. The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) said it “cannot fathom” why the government believed the policy “is in any
We had a call from a local resident who had found an injured hedgehog on the back lawn. It was daytime which was unusual, and the animal was not moving. So she called the RSPCA who came and had a look. It turned out that the poor little thing had sustained a serious injury to
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By Carole Hawkins (niece) In last months Sunbury Matters there was a photo from Wilson’s boatyard in 1941 (below). In the photo is 17-year-old apprentice, Eric Robins, my uncle. He would go on to use the carpentry skills he learned at Wilsons to aid the war effort and, subsequently, in the construction of many local
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Last summer, a broadcast by David Sedaris on his obsession with litter picking caught the imagination of Shirley Lunn. A keen walker herself, she had noticed the growing amount of litter which was spoiling our community. She put a post out on Facebook asking if any-one fancied getting involved, thinking she might get a dozen
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By Sara Ward It was a cold Saturday morning and I was standing, socially distanced, from a friend whilst we hugged thermal mugs of tea and watched pairs of women in swimsuits, com-plete with woolly hats and neoprene gloves and boots, walk down the slipway into the cold water of the creek. Not long after,
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By Mary Booth If you have walked along the Thames between Sunbury and Shepperton on the second weekend in September in recent years, you may have seen the flotilla of Dunkirk Little Ships. These beautiful historic boats make this journey every year in an event designed to bring together veterans and those ships which saved
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Suzanne Rankin, Chief Executive at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Over one year on from the very first lock-down of this pandemic, there is some good news. As the number of daily infections in the UK continues to decline, we have started to take the first steps out of the third lockdown
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The Sunbury Amateur Regatta Committee, has taken the difficult decision to cancel the event for 2021. Whilst the pathway out of lockdown is promising, the remain-ing uncertainty and potential for last-minute change, creates too great a financial risk. We know this will be disappointing for many and we are very conscious that the Regatta has
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By S E Burt Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the natural world and the effect humans have on it. Global Warming, deforestation, biodiversity, greenwashing, carbon footprint, are all familiar terms – but what do they actually mean? Biodiversity for example, means the variety and abundance of life on Earth, but in
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A Cycle/footbridge at Thameside Sunbury. Has its moment arrived? The consultation on potential river crossing sites in the Sunbury area was undertaken over a period in excess of four months in 2015 (see Home Page of www.losra.org). A total of 911 residents on both sides of the River Thames submitted their views as a part
By Monica Chard …So says Shepperton’s Carole Boyd, whose alter ego, Lynda Snell, has provided us with such an entertaining character on air for the past 35 years of The Archers. Lynda Snell is one of the village stalwarts. She will always rise to the occasion when a cause needs a champion. With her superior
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By Nick Pollard No doubt many readers will remember the British Thermostat factory in Windmill Road, Sunbury, which provided employment to generations of local people. Some of you may well have worked there yourselves. The company was founded in Teddington in 1928 with a staff of only 4, to produce refrigeration controls and automatic thermostats.
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by Michelle Whearty, One 2 One Waist Management We have all heard the saying ‘Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and sup like a pauper”. There is a lot of science behind it. Much of weight management is to do with our “Biological Rhythm”, and no it’s noth-ing to do with dancing! The
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