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NEW SPORTS FACILITY AT EWELL - Page 6 Issue No. 2 Sept 2018
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EMPIRE COMMENT
GREAT BOROUGH SPORT he excellent summer weather we have been having has been good for sport and in this issue you can read all about the Specsavers Surrey Youth Games on page 8. This year Epsom & Ewell were well represented with a squad of 168 young people taking part in the Games at the weekend hosted at two venues this year, Surrey Sports Park in Guildford and Woking Leisure Centre. Specsavers Surrey Youth Games is a great opportunity for young people to try a new sport, or to improve their skills by taking part in high quality free coaching sessions. It is a great weekend for everyone and the young people really enjoy themselves, make new friends and get to try a sport that they may not have had a go at before.
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There is also the exciting prospect of a new sports facility in the Borough at Old School’s Lane. On page 6 you can read about Epsom Sports Club’s announcement that phase 1 of building their new sports facility at Old School’s Lane, Ewell has begun. Contractors have started laying the foundations for an all weather pitch, grass pitch, cricket pitch and outfield space for football, lacrosse, rugby and junior activities, which will provide a lasting sporting legacy for the whole of Epsom and Ewell. So with all the obesity fears Epsom & Ewell is ahead of the game in providing opportunities for young and old to try new sports and enjoy keeping fit. Richard Milbourn, Editor Email: richard.milbourn@carnah.co.uk
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GREEN SPACES ARE AMONGST THE UK’S BEST
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our green spaces within Epsom and Ewell have been recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as some of the very best in the world. Epsom Common Local Nature Reserve, Ewell Court Park, Alexandra Recreation Ground and Rosebery Park join other green spaces awarded recognition throughout the UK. The green spaces are among a recordbreaking 1,883 UK parks and green spaces that received a prestigious Green Flag Award - the mark of a quality park or green space. This international award, now into its third decade, is a sign to the public that the space boasts the highest possible environmental standards, is beautifully maintained and has excellent visitor facilities. The four green spaces that were put forward for judging for the award were
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selected as they are broadly representative of the different green spaces within the borough: G Epsom Common Local Nature Reserve has won the award for the twelfth consecutive year. It is the largest local nature reserve in Surrey and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). G Ewell Court Park has won the award for the seventh year in a row. The park is the former gardens of the historical Ewell Court House. G Alexandra Recreation Ground has also won the award for the seventh year in a row. It is a sports ground with facilities for cricket, soccer, bowls, tennis and basketball situated in Alexandra Road. G Rosebery Park has won the award for the sixth time this year. It is a formal town centre park. Councillor Barry Nash, Chairman of the
GREEN SPACES ARE AMONGST THE UK’S Council's Community and Wellbeing Committee said: “What a great way to mark ‘Love Parks Week’! We know how much quality green spaces matter to residents and visitors, and this award celebrates the dedication that goes into maintaining our green spaces to such a high standard. “We are absolutely delighted to receive these Green Flag Awards which are a testimony to the hard work of our staff and also the input from community groups and volunteers." International Green Flag Award scheme manager Paul Todd said: “We are delighted to be celebrating another record-breaking year for the Green Flag Award scheme, with more Green Flags awarded this year than last year.” “Each flag honours the thousands of staff and volunteers who work tirelessly to maintain the high standards demanded by
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NEW SPORTS FACILITY AT EWELL
Epsom club members viewing the cricket pitch.
psom Sports Club is pleased to announce that phase 1 of building their new sports facility at Old School’s Lane, Ewell has begun. Contractors have started laying the foundations for an all weather pitch, grass pitch, cricket pitch and outfield space for football, lacrosse, rugby and junior activities, which will provide a lasting sporting legacy for the whole of Epsom and Ewell. The new sports ground will be ready in September 2018 and phase 2 of the project will be to build a modern clubhouse with sporting and social facilities. Phase 1 has already been
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paid for at a cost of £1.2 million and Epsom Sports Club is now busy raising funds to build the new clubhouse and providing fabulous and much needed facilities for the local community. The Club has already raised nearly £200K of the £800K required to complete the project. Drew Russell, Epsom Sports Club Chairman said, “We’re so excited that the wait is over to start building! Old Schools Lane will bring top class sporting facilities for the whole Sports Club and local area.” He added, “We want to attract more playing members from across Epsom and Ewell and entice more to get involved in sport -
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we already have a number of local schools signed up to use the all weather pitch.” Epsom Sports Club is a thriving multi-sport club with over 1,500 members focussed on providing the local community with a variety of high quality sporting activities in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. The Club has four sports sections consisting of cricket, croquet, hockey and tennis but also supports a number of other sports such as lacrosse, ensuring that the Club can cater for a variety of interests, ages and abilities. Mark Hill, Community Sports Development Officer, Epsom & Ewell Borough council said, “Epsom Sports Club have always been really supportive of community events such as the Surrey Youth Games and are always keen to help.” There will be a grand opening of the sports ground in September when local councillors, residents and the local
community can come and see the sports ground for themselves. If you would like to join the club, contribute to the fundraising or would like to discuss sponsorship opportunities of the new club house, please get in touch with Epsom Sports Club on 01372 722 487 or email sport@epsomsportsclub.co.uk or go to the website at www.epsomsportsclub.co.uk
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GREAT RESULTS FOR EPSOM & EWELL
Badminton U11 Mixed-Silver medal winners.
eam Epsom & Ewell have once again done the borough proud at this year’s Specsavers Surrey Youth Games. The squad of 168 young people took part in the Games at the weekend hosted at two venues this year, Surrey Sports Park in Guildford and Woking Leisure Centre. The team aged between 7 and 16 took part in a wide range of different sports and came away with a fantastic collection of medals: six Gold, three Silver and two Bronze including 13 individual medals in judo; five Gold, three silver and five bronze, our highest medal tally! There were also individual awards for Annabel Winter who won the ‘Shot of the Tournament’ award for the boccia U13 event and Thomas Patrick who was named ‘Top Male Judoka’ in the morning section of the judo event. Medals won:
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Sport Medal Badminton – U11 Mixed - Silver Boccia - Disability U13 Mixed - Bronze Boccia - Disability U18 Mixed - Gold Cricket – U11 Girls - Gold Hockey – U11 Boys - Bronze Judo – U13 Boys - Gold Judo – U13 Girls - Gold Lacrosse – U15 Mixed - Silver Rugby – U11 Girls - Gold Squash – U10 Mixed - Gold Squash – U13 Mixed - Silver For the full list of results see: www.activesurrey.com/surreyyouthgames/2018 Team Epsom & Ewell competed against teams from ten other Surrey borough and districts and took part in every sport and every age category for the competition weekend for – badminton, boccia (including senior boccia), boxing (contact and noncontact), cricket, football, hockey, judo, lacrosse, High 5 netball, netball, touch C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 1 0
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rugby, squash and tennis. Councillor Barry Nash, Chairman of Epsom & Ewell Borough Council’s Community and Wellbeing Committee said, “Congratulations Team Epsom & Ewell! It has been another fantastic year and a great all round result. Well done! “The team comradery was particularly inspiring across all events and age groups and highlights the importance of sport in the local community. Thank you to all the 383 young people who registered to take part in the trial and taster sessions and to all our local clubs and coaches who provided the training sessions.” The free training sessions for all sports were run by qualified coaches and the majority have direct links with local clubs' junior sections, offering youngsters who took part, a chance to get involved with a club on a more longterm basis. The Specsavers Surrey Youth Games is a great opportunity for young people 10 SEPTEMBER 2018
to try a new sport, or to improve their skills by taking part in high quality free coaching sessions. It is a great weekend for everyone and the young people really enjoy themselves, make new friends and get to try a sport that they may not have had a go at before. For more information on the Specsavers Surrey Youth Games visit www.epsom-ewell.gov.uk/syg
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BOURNE HALL n Monday 9th February 1970 Bourne Hall was officially opened to the public. Five years earlier A.G. Sheppard Fidler & Associates were appointed architects with a brief for a combined library, museum and social centre. Bob Loren (FRIBA), the project architect, designed a circular building which was to be located in an existing public park complete with a lake and ornamental gardens which once formed Garbrand Hall. The world renowned local firm of WS Atkins & Partners acted as consulting engineers and another local firm D J Bendle & Partners acted as quantity surveyors to the project. The main contractor was William Willett (Contractors) Ltd of Clapham Common and building work started in November 1967 and was finished in January 1970. Sited close to the centre of Ewell Village the radical design, vaguely reminiscent of a flying saucer, was both bold and dramatic. It made use of twenty precast concrete vertical ribs arranged in a circle, with their tops meeting at a 33ft. (10.6m) diameter concrete compression ring near the crown. The ring supports a translucent glass fibre domed roof light. To support the main domed roof, and provide structural integrity, there is a 138ft (42.06m) diameter second
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Aerial photograph of model of Bourne Hall.
ring of pre-stressed, post tensioned concrete at a height of 23ft (7.01m) above ground level. Apart from holding up the roof this ring forms the eaves and holds the gutters. Nine cables were used in the prestressing, each covers an arc of 120 degrees and consists of 6 x 0.06in (15mm) diameter strands and were anchored at every 40 degrees giving 3 cables per section, each tensioned to 40,000 lbf (1710kN). The roof is constructed of an interesting sandwich of materials, the outer layer is felt backed copper bonded to a layer of felt laid on screeded wood wool panels which were fixed to steel joists which span the gap between each rib. Each straight steel joist had to be carefully positioned to form a conical roof
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profile. This method of construction did away with the need for the more conventional method of nailing the copper onto wooden battens. As the roof line approaches the gutter level the wood wool panels were replaced by lightweight concrete sprayed on to expanded metal curved to the correct profile to act as formwork and reinforcement. It is thought that this is the first use of lightweight aggregate gunite (as this spray method is called) in the UK. The space between the roof sandwich and the suspended ceiling is used for the central area warm air heating and ventilation ducts. Below gutter level is a split ring of various sized single storey rooms radiating outward from between the ribs. The rooms are constructed of
10ft tall slender reinforced concrete load bearing mullions with their roof resting on beams to columns in the corridor wall giving spans of 14ft (4.27m) to 33ft (10.6m). Externally the white concrete ribs and mullions were made to superior quality specifications and building was finished with aluminum windows above slate fronted panels. The whole building was based around multiples of 4 inch units which enabled many standard and modular parts to be used, which in turn greatly simplifying construction and keeping costs low - in total the building cost just £368,000! For this amount the local ratepayers got a building on three levels:• The basement holds the semi sunken 350 seat Main Hall (suitable for concerts, stage productions, dances, and film viewing) together with maintenance/service tunnels. The walls of the Main hall are made from 16" concrete to provide soundproofing. C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2 2
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• The ground floor houses the Main Foyer, the 5900sq.ft. Branch Library with Local History Centre and a café, together with a banqueting suite for 205 people (with kitchen and separate bar area), a small hall for 110 people, various committee room, offices, toilets and boiler room. The 42ft (12.8m) high by 5ft (1.52m) diameter chimney is separated from the main building to form a design feature.
• The mezzanine floor, which is formed by the roof of the Main Hall, overlooks the foyer and houses the museum and separate exhibition area. This level is reached by a wide spiral staircase. Disabled access was designed in from the start and access to all levels is provided by a small lift. Published courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum www.epsom-ewell.gov.uk www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/ EpsomHistoryCentre.html
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WHAT’S ON Charity Car Boot Sale supported bg advised)Meet at dusk to find out more Autotest in aid of EMEF about the lives these fascinating flying Sun, 05/08/2018 08:00 to 12:30 mammals that live on Epsom Common. Cost: £10 - £15 Bring a head torch/torch and wrap up Contact name: Mrs. Bess Harding. MBE warm! Sorry, no dogs allowed on this Telephone: +44 20 8337 8181 walk. Meet at the Stew Pond car park off email: bess.harding@ntlworld.com Christchurch Road (B280) Please wear Venue: Epsom General Hospital, Dorking appropriate clothing. Stout boots and a Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7EG raincoat just in case it’s wet. Please note Charity Car Boot Sale supported by that walks may be subject to cancellation AutoTest in aid of Epsom Medical due to poor weather conditions. Equipment Fund to raise money to Fungus Foray purchase medical equipment for Epsom Sun, 09/09/201810:30 to 12:30 General Hospital. Entrance charges: Contact name: John Turner Cars£10; MPV, 4WD & Small Vans £12; Telephone: +44 7729235559 Trailers £3 extra; Larger Vans from email: ecovols@epsomcommon.org.uk £15. Buyers by Donation. Time: 8 am to Venue: Epsom Common, Stew Pond car 12:30 pm Refreshments available. Toilets park, Christ Church Road, Epsom, Surrey on site; main bus route - buses stop Join Dick Alder and Mike Waterman of outside. All entrance monies and vehicle the West Weald Fungus Recording Group fees will go towards the purchase of find, and record varying Participants gather for Round the Borough to Bike lastidentify year in Horton Countythe Park. medical equipment for Epsom General and interesting types of fungus to be Hospital which will benefit the local found on Epsom Common. Meet at the community. No booking necessary. Hard Stew Pond car park notice board at standing so not cancelled due to 10.30am. The walk will last for rain. Future Car Boot Sales 26th August; approximately two hours. Please wear 16th & 30th September; 14th & 28th suitable outdoor clothing and footwear to October 2018 suit the prevailing weather conditions. After Dark Bat Walk on Epsom Art by local artists at affordable prices Common Local Nature Reserve 13th to 26th August 2018 from 9.30 to Sat, 08/09/2018 19:30 to 21:00 5pm. Denbies Wine Estate London Road, Cost: £5 per adult, £2.50 per child (16 yrs Dorking RH5 6AA. Entry is free and there or under) is free parking, with tea rooms available Contact name: Sarah Clift on ground floor. Telephone: +44 1372 745224 www.epsomandewellartgroup.co.uk Contact email: sclift@epsom-ewell.gov.uk Autumn Show Venue: Stew Pond Car Park, Christchurch Date – Saturday 22 September Road, Epsom, Surrey Time – 2.30 to 4.30pm Advance booking only call 01372 Venue – Blenheim High School, 732000. (Popular event so early booking Longmead Road, Epsom KT19 9BH, fully 22 SEPTEMBER 2018
WHAT’S ON accessible venue. Public Transport – 418 bus (Epsom to Kingston) Ewell West Station (Waterloo Line). Free Admission - all welcome, free parking, a raffle plus refreshments with delicious homemade cakes. Displays of .late summer flowers, home grown vegetables, cookery and floral art plus plants, bulbs and garden sundries for sale. Website – www.ewellhortassn.co.uk Email – eha_details@ewellhortassn.co.uk Concert and picnic Sun, 23/09/2018 14:00 Cost: £2 donation Contact name: Royal British Legion email: contactus@epsom-ewell.gov.uk Venue: Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell Surrey KT17 1UF Bourne Hall Park in Ewell is hosting a very special day to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the end of World War One. In the morning Bourne Hall Museum will be using re-enactors to give some idea of what life was like for the men at the front including a cook, padre, officers and troops along with a field hospital. There will be displays and talks on feeding the troops, gas training, infantry weapons and machine-gunning. From 2pm to 6pm there will be a concert and picnic organised by the Royal British Legion. The concert will feature:- Epsom Light Opera Company; Epsom Male Voice Choir; Ewell Castle School; Ewell St Mary’s Morris Men; Oatlands Park Pipe Band; Sandra Gayer, Soprano; St Mary's Ewell, Parish Choir . The concert will climax in an audience led singalong! Donation of £2 per person for the Royal
British Legion. Dress up in your best red, white & blue, dust off your Union Jack blanket, bring along a picnic and join in! Bow Saws & Broomsticks! Take a look at the work of volunteers in Horton Country Park Sun, 07/10/2018 14:00 to 17:00 Cost: £5 per adult, £2.50 per child. Contact name: Lindsay Coomber Telephone: +44 1372 732473 email: lcoomber@epsom-ewell.gov.uk Venue: Horton Country Park Local Nature Reserve, Horton Lane, Epsom, Surrey KT19 8PL Join a member of the EEBC Countryside Team for an early autumn stroll around Horton Country Park Local Nature Reserve and discover the vital work of volunteers in helping manage the reserve. Meet at the Information Centre adjacent to the public car park. Please wear appropriate clothing. Please leave your dog at home on walks that involve looking for animals; otherwise they are welcome on a lead. The Children's Trust, Tadworth Fri, 26/10/2018 18:00 Cost: Tickets: adults - £10, children £5 Contact name: Hannah Vince Telephone: +44 1737 365017 email: fairs@thechildrenstrust.org.uk Venue: The Children's Trust, Tadworth Surrey KT20 5RU. Gates open: 6pm Child-friendly fireworks display: 7pm Main display: 8pm Free park and ride system from Aberdour school, KT20 6AJ. For more information please visit our website thechildrenstrust.org.uk/fireworks SEPTEMBER 2018 23
WHAT’S ON BO U RN E HA LL EVEN TS Further information available from David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF. Tel 020 8394 1734. Email: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/BourneHallMuseumClub.html uring November there will be an Exhibition on the Home Front in Epsom and Ewell during World War 1.
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1st November 11am The formal opening of the Bourne Hall Garden of Remembrance by local children and the Mayor of Epsom and Ewell. If your school would like to take part please contact dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk 7th November In Epsom Market Place an event to remember the last local man to fall in battle. Trooper Frederick Watkins of the 20th Hussars was killed in action on 7th November 1918 at Avesnes-Le-Sec, France, He was 32 years old. Times and details will be published nearer the event it is hoped that local schools may like to attend please contact dbrooks@epsomewell.gov.uk 11th November In the evening Battle Over an event to commemorate to end of the First World War. This will include the lighting of a brazier in 24 SEPTEMBER 2018
the grounds of Bourne Hall to signal the lights coming on again after their going out in 1914. The playing of the Last Post and singing by Epsom and Ewell Male Voice Choir. Also the chance to learn about battlefield medicine from a re-enactor whose grandfather was a surgeon at the Battle of the Somme – he’ll be bringing the family medical kit! Times and details will be published nearer the date. During September Bourne Hall Museum will be offering local schools a powerpoint talk on Epsom and Ewell in World War 1.
Events to commemorate the end of the First World War 23rd September 10am to 1.30pm A day at Bourne Hall in gratitude for those who fought in the First World War In the morning Bourne Hall Museum will be using re-enactors to give some idea of what life was like for the men at the front including a cook with his working stove, Padre, officer and troops with a Vickers Machine Gun! There will C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2 6
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be displays and talks on feeding the troops, gas training, infantry weapons and machinegunning. Thee will also be a field hospital manned by four nurses. FREE 2pm to 4pm A Thank You Concert and Picnic organised by the British Legion, with performers including Oatlands Pipe Band, Ewell Castle School Choir, Epsom and Ewell Male Voice Choir and the singer Sandra Gaye. The concert will climax in a sing-song of the greatest hits of the time. Bring your picnic and join in with a big thank-you to the men and women who served in the Great War. There will be a stalls selling refreshments. Entrance £2 donation includes programme and flag. Do you have relations who lived in Epsom and Ewell and served in the Great War? We would like to hear from you – your family stories could form part of the day. 13th October 1pm to 2.30pm Bourne Hall Museum Kids Club presents a 26 SEPTEMBER 2018
special session on the Great War Would you like to sit for hours in a muddy funk hole? Learn who or what was a Moaning Minnie or a Jack Johnson. What did it mean if you were chatting, and where was Blighty? Discover the answers to all of these questions and more, when we are visited by a British Army Officer and Tommy who will try and get you to join the army! Learn about trench warfare on the Western Front and how tough daily life was for the troops. See and have the oppor-tunity to handle objects and weapons from the War to end all Wars. Try to understand the soldier’s experiences and how life in the trenches evolved through the duration of the war. Price £5 per child 1 adult free. Further information available from David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF. Tel 020 8394 1734. Email dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/ BourneHallMuseumClub.html
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