When lockdown was announced in mid-March the Thamesmead School Head, Phil Reeves, the leadership team and IT department, immediately began planning how schooling could continue for over 1000 pupils. Within a few days a system had been set up for students and staff trained. By the second day of lockdown, fully interactive online learning was […]
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By Nick Pollard The 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, the end of the Second World War in the European Theatre, was marked in a very different way to the original celebrations on 8th May 1945. This street party in Cavendish Road, Sunbury, shows how communal tables were set up in the middle of
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By Eilidh Dorgan, Sunbury Resident The “Medium-Sized Man” Dominic Bruce, 5 ‘3, was a war hero, Houdini hobbyist, and all-around cheeky chap who lived in Blakesley Lodge, Green Street, Sunbury. Born in Durham County in 1915, Bruce has come to be best known for his seventeen attempted escapes from POW camps in WWII. Of all
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It is with great sadness that we learned that Dorothy (Dot) Beeson passed away peacefully at home with her family on May 1st 2020. Dorothy Beeson born July 6th 1947 founded The Swan Sanctu-ary in her back garden in the early 1980’s. With the help of friends, family and volunteers, she built it into a
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Paul Walker may well have found some old classmates. After our appeal for pupils from Chennestone School from 1968 last month, it seems we are not alone in wanting to reunite. A post on Facebook shows a photo of the class of ‘68 which came from Laurence Whiting who is in it. Pictured right is
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By Denis Fuller The Fuller family is a long standing Sunbury family. You may have come across any of the three brothers, or indeed their families. Seen right are Denis, Michael and Tony Fuller. Denis shares some of his memories of growing up in Sunbury: The house named ‘Jacqueline’ in Burgoyne Road, Sunbury, was my
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By Monica Chard Which county do you live in? I wonder how many of us would immediately answer Surrey? But Sunbury is very much in the county of Middlesex. Let’s go back… The name Middlesex dates from the Saxon period. Positioned as it was between the East and West Saxons, the region was in the
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We have all had to face the fact that our favourite events are not able to take place this year, physically at least. For those of us who live in or near Shepperton, the loss of our much-loved and incredibly popular Village Fair, due to be held this month, is a huge disappointment. Every year
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About a month ago we held our annual soup lunch to raise funds for these two worthwhile local charities. Homemade soup and homemade cakes were on offer and Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP gave a talk in support of charities, and there was singing from our children’s choir ‘Aloud’ and Hanworth Community choir.
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Now is your chance to show off your skills in photography. Two local competitions are launching so get your best shots out and get ready to take part.
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Beauty really is more than skin deep as we found out recently on a visit to the new beauty clinic in Lower Sunbury. The Practice Beauty Clinic is on Thames Street and is the brainchild of Sunbury resident and local GP Dr Saba Khan.
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In this view of Cemetery Lane (now called Forge Lane), off Green Street Sunbury, a horse can be seen halfway down the narrow road. It’s no doubt being shoed at the blacksmith’s forge, which had been run by the Swabeys, father and son, for over 100 years.
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In January 2020 Monica Chard, Founder and Publisher of the Village Matters magazines, was interviewed on Brooklands Radio. This followed the award for Best Business in Sunbury and runner up Best Business in Spelthorne in Autumn 2019.
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Those of you who are keen readers of Shepperton Matters will have noticed that we made an appearance at Big Tree Night last month.
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There was standing room only at the public meeting relating to the proposed development of the Stratton Road fields. Known locally as the horse fields, or less poetically, as site 32-o.
Local Take on Battle for Stratton Road ‘Horse Field’ Read More »
In the quest to reduce plastic, we were thrilled to hear about a local initiative called Boomerang Bags which has taken off in some local areas, but which has huge scope to spread.
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Yes really. Sunbury has its own cinema. Not your regular sort of cinema, but a special one!
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It may surprise readers to learn that the Spelthorne area was home to several automobile makers between the wars, including Lagonda, Tamplin and Atalanta at Staines, and Lammas at Sunbury.
A Sunbury car maker – Lammas Ltd Read More »
We have carried several articles about the Community foodbank at St Saviours over the 3 years since it started. But it is only recently that I went to see for myself what an incredible asset this is to the community.
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On behalf of the Friends of Sunbury Park, a really big thank you to everybody that turned out to help recently at the bramble bash and mulch laying. We had a fantastic group of people of all ages and, after splitting into two groups managed to achieve all the aims we wanted to achieve.
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We have run the story of the tenacious 9 year old Rosie Gurney the past month and in this issue. She wants to be able to walk to school and not have her mother unnecessarily drive her and create more pollution.
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