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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Aryan Bhanot is a 17 year old student at Tiffins. He lives in Sunbury and wanted so share with readers the experience of lock down on his age group. Everything that I expected 2020 to be, was anything but a series of unfortunate events. It was meant to be a stressful but exciting year to
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By Monica Chard It’s official! According to a survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Spelthorne is the happiest place to live in Surrey. (It is in Middlesex of course, but that is a different story!) The ONS broke down the average ratings of four factors, which included life satisfaction, the feeling that the
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia Slowly things are changing and we will be coming out of the Lock Down period in a number of stages. This has been a difficult time for everyone and we appreciate all that our local communi-ties have done to protect each other and look after their neighbours. It has been really
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There has been an interesting development regarding the Eco Park which may raise some hope to local residents who have unhappily been living in its shadow. At a meeting on March 16th, Natalie Bramhall, portfolio holder of Environment and Climate Change at Surrey County Council stated “After exhausting other options available, we have now entered
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Well, at least we have won one battle. With the ever-growing threat of two 6 storey blocks over-looking residential areas at the top of Green Street, the name of the unpopular development has been changed. It WAS to be named Ceaser Court in memory of Gerry Ceaser, as an honour to the memory of a
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There are big celebrations at a household in Sunbury this April when couple Derek and Rose-Marie Hook celebrate their birthdays. Derek celebrates his 91st birthday and his wife Rose-Marie her 90th. The couple moved to Sunbury with their 6 children in 1969 and purchased a house in Vicarage Road where they still live today. They
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Hoe Hoe Hoe! By Rachael Leverton Following on from last month’s list of essential garden tools for beginners I thought I’d explain about the humble hoe. When I first started gardening, I didn’t really understand how to use one. There are a couple of varieties of hoe and they are used in different ways, and
County elections are taking place this May and it is important to use your vote. Thankfully the successful vaccination roll out means elections can take place once more and you can have your say. Voting in elections is a really important way to make your voice heard on the issues that concern you. Decisions are
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Thanks to this months contributors. Do email photos to monica@villagematters.co.uk And consider entering the Capture Spelthorne competition 2021 run by the council: www.spelthorne.gov.uk/capture It’s free to enter and closes August 31st.
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 Monica Chard By now, many of you will know about the fabulous surplus food stall, which is run out of Sunbury Cricket Club at weekends (12-2). Maybe you have come away from a visit there with a big bag of bread and pastries or a bag of veg, or if you are lucky, or
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By Nick Pollard This postcard of the Three Horseshoes pub, at the southern end of Shepperton High Street, can be accurately dated to 1927. This is because in the background can be seen the newly-built Lordsbridge House, which was completed that year (the date is on a plaque over the central doorway). There is a
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Have you renewed your membership or are you yet to join the Lower Sunbury Resi-dents’ Association? It’s been many months since our volunteers (some of whom are elderly or otherwise clini-cally vulnerable) have been safe enough to deliver our seasonal newsletters door-to-door. Subject to government advice we hope to be back to normal in the
By Monica Chard The Avenue boasts the most magnificent mature chestnut trees. As well as the large houses, the trees themselves are one of the attractions of this premier road in Lower Sunbury. But the sad fact is, many of these trees are being felled due to disease. Slowly, slowly, they are coming down. That
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Do you want to start, develop, and grow your business in a cost effective and vibrant loca-tion with fellow entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses with the added benefit of mentoring, training, networking opportunities and FREE broadband with speeds up to 1GB? If the answer is yes then The Spelthorne Hub could be the ideal location
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10 years ago this month, some of you will have received issue 1 of a new community maga-zine called Sunbury Matters. It started as a 32 page magazine, delivered by children of friends of mine, to only 2000 homes. I never looked back! I had left a very well-paid career in TV sales in London.
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The front door may be closed to public meetings, but we are very much alive behind the scenes just waiting for the ‘all clear’ siren to sound. Our groups have been staying in touch by various electronic means and I see that already the Flower Club, the Coffee Concert, Riverside Arts Jazz and Riverside Players
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By Patricia Stone Carawagon Ltd was situated opposite Thames Street car park on Thames Street, where Oxford Row now stands. It serviced motor cara-vans. I worked there in the 1970’s for Mr Searle, who was the owner and Mr Robin Wil-son-Webb (son of Wilson-Webb who had an electrical shop in Thames Street. As an aside
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As of Monday 15th February, 4,151 of our patients have been vaccinated with their first Covid jab. We would like to thank our patients for their patience as we continue to send out vaccination invitations moving through the cohorts following the government vaccination plan. We are working closely with our local GP Federation (NICS) who
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