Ewell Empire June 2018 by Carnah Events Ltd

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Empire

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EMPIRE COMMENT

WELCOME TO THE EMPIRE The Empire aims to keep you informed of all facets of life in Ewell and engender a greater community spirit would like to welcome you to the inaugural issue of the Ewell Empire. This publication would not be possible without the support of all the companies placing advertisements and I urge you to support them in return by quoting the ‘Empire’ when you purchase any goods or services. I have been editing the Kingswood Village Voice, Tadworth & Walton Tribune, Banstead Beacon, Epsom Eagle and Cheam Clarion for the last two years and have spent over 20 years in media and publishing. I would like to say at the outset that this magazine is ‘your magazine’ serving the residents of Ewell and aims to keep you informed of village life. I have no ‘axe to grind’ or

political affiliations but it is being run by Carnah Events on a commercial basis. The Empire therefore is open to all local associations, clubs, societies and groups to contribute articles. I can only apologise if you are one of the above and have not been made aware of the new magazine, but its not too late, and I would welcome any articles for the next issue which will be published on the 3rd week of August with an editorial deadline of 31st July. I hope you enjoy this first issue and please send me any letters, feedback, comments and suggestions for the next issue which will be bigger and better. Richard Milbourn, Editor Email: richard.milbourn@carnah.co.uk

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COUNCIL TO BE MORE ENTERPRISING ouncillors have agreed a package of measures that will enable council services to be more enterprising and ensure that residents are able to access more of the paid for services that they want because they represent excellent value for money. Following the government’s decision to stop giving any Revenue Support Grant to Epsom & Ewell, the council faces a projected budget gap of £600,000 by 2020/21. Just 22% of the council’s expenditure is generated through council tax so other sources of income continue to be vital in protecting core service delivery. Councillor Eber Kington, Chair of the Strategy & Resources Committee, said “Despite the loss of government grant and other financial pressures we have not cut any service to our residents. However, going forward, we not only have to ensure that those services are cost effective but must also look to provide additional paid-for services that are of a high quality and reflect the changing needs of our residents”. Ideas now being considered include the provision of services for those with higher needs, offering regulatory advice to local businesses, selling advertising space, the provision of a house clearance service and providing commercial grounds maintenance work. In addition, using the borough’s parks for events and increasing the use

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of council venues by commercial companies and for private functions are also key elements of the plan. Councillor Eber Kington said: “The council gives a very high priority to listening to its residents and ensuring that its services reflect what they need and want. More and more residents are asking us to offer new services especially to address their needs as they grow older”. At the Strategy & Resources Committee last night, councillors agreed that the council’s approach to being more enterprising would build on the positive aspects of commercial thinking and customer service practice that already exist within the organisation, alongside reinforcing the strong public service ethos that characterises the council, which continues to put the borough’s residents first. Councillor Kington added “the benefits of pursuing a more commercial approach are not purely financial. Becoming a more commercially focused organisation means putting the customer at the heart of everything we do, and doing so in a financially sustainable way. It is about actively encouraging creative thinking to develop more effective ways to deliver services that residents, businesses and visitors need and want”. Earlier this year the council instigated a commercial property enterprise which is already generating funds for service provision.

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EWELL SAXON ANCESTORS The Saxons started a community at the foot of the Downs which they called Ewell, from aewille, meaning a spring at the head of the river

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well at the beginning of the fifth century AD was usually quiet. For longer than anyone could remember, over three hundred years in fact, the walls of its roadside shops had echoed to the sound of marching feet as troops from the Roman army were sent on business between London and Chichester. The landlord of the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main inn and bath house relied on Imperial soldiers and envoys for the best part of his trade. They would stop for the night, and before setting out

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next dawn they would pay for little brooches and souvenirs which they threw into the sacred waters at the head of the river. Even the newly-converted Christians paid respect to the waters in this way, for it was an old custom, going back to the unimaginably distant Celtic past before the Roman legions had come to Britain. And now the legions were going, called back to defend the Continent, and no-one knew what would happen next. The village inn fell into ruin for want of customers. The great fairs for cattle and

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sheep were at an end. Once, long droves of livestock had come from the farms south of the Downs, to be appraised by agents for the London market. Now London itself was nearly derelict, deprived of the money which had been brought in by the swarms of Imperial servants and officials. Even basic goods such as pottery were becoming hard to obtain, since the kilns which made it had become unprofitable with the collapse of the economy. Coins still passed from hand to hand, but in an economy based on barter they were of little use, and by 450 a generation had grown up which did not know what the little discs of metal were for, or whose face was stamped on them. Now that the soldiers were gone, there was a power vacuum. Government naturally fell into the hands of the large landowners who had retired to their villas and country estates, like those at Beddington and Walton on the Hill. Instead of administering laws, they now began to make them. Where they had once collected the taxes on behalf of a distant emperor, they now required the same payments for themselves. But there were no troops to enforce these demands, since the old Imperial policy had been very strict about disarming the civilian population. Only the wild tribesmen, born and bred in territories beyond the imperial border, had any practical military experience. There were many people beyond the imperial border who knew all about Britain. Eager to see something of the world, young men from the undeveloped regions east of the Rhine would sign up as auxiliary troops for the Romans, and return to their home villages full of

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traveller’s tales. There were others who stayed on to retire on a soldier’s pension and work a small farm within the Imperial borders: and still others, more daring, who would get together in a small band and venture out at night on the North Sea, making quick pirate raids on the undefended villages of the coast. By the middle of the fifth century, a lot of information about London and its environs was common knowledge in the barbarian regions of Jutland, Saxony, Angeln, and Frisia. The landowners of rural Kent and Surrey, who were now little more than warlords ruling over the local peasants, needed men to enforce their authority: and they recruited for them among the tribes of the north German coast. Settlers from these lands were welcome to come over and farm unoccupied land in the British provinces, provided that their young men served the warrior bands under the orders of their new overlords. Along the coast of southern Britain, from Hampshire to Lincolnshire, similar arrangements were being made. And so, from the 450s onwards, thousands of people crossed the North Sea to make a new life in Britain. Even in this racial melting-pot of Britain, they managed for a long time to keep their racial identities as Jutes, Saxons, Angles, Frisians and Franks. But they all spoke a common dialect of North Germanic, which would later come to be called English, and they would increasingly come to think of themselves as one people. Britain was a weak province, economically and culturally. Deprived of Imperial power, the local warlords had very little to offer their mercenaries, who 8 JUNE 2018

soon staged a series of coups against them and took over control of the southern provinces. Then the AngloSaxons began to take over the surrounding settlements. In two or three generations, the native British peasantry had been displaced. Some of them fled inland as refugees: others intermarried with the new settlers. By 550, Kent, Surrey and Sussex had become English. The Christian religion was abandoned in favour of Paganism. Justice was administered according to traditional tribal law, as it had been handed down in the homelands overseas. It became rare to hear a voice speaking British: only a few settlements – Wallington and Waltonon-Thames among them – remained the property of their original British inhabitants, now known as the Welsh. The first Saxons in Surrey lived off the tribute which they could exact from the locals, and settled wherever they could control the movement of goods and people through the landscape. There were large communities where routes crossed the Thames at Kingston and Chertsey, and others controlled fords through the Wey at Guildford and the Mole at Leatherhead. Several of these strongpoints had been originally been chosen by British leaders, such as the Cerotus who founded Chertsey, and in fact Leatherhead still keeps its Celtic name, meaning ‘the grey ford’. One of the roads southward to the Weald was under the authority of a group based at Beddington and Croydon, where they buried their dead in large cemeteries. Another early graveyard has been found at Mitcham, beside the old road which the Saxons called Stane Street, because C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 1 0

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the stony surface was so much harder than the farm tracks with which they were familiar. Further down this road a smaller community established themselves near the half-deserted settlement at the foot of the Downs. We know that local people told them about the virtues of the sacred spring, for early Saxon brooches have been found among the offerings thrown into its waters. They called their new home Ewell, from aewille, meaning a spring at the head of a river. The community was a very small one. In the early Saxon period, the country was very thinly settled, and many of the families that lived around the source of the Hogsmill in winter would have trekked down, in the dry summer weather, to graze pigs and cattle under the trees of the Weald. They did not necessarily think of Ewell as their home, although the sacred spring was an important landmark in their lives. Possibly they were known as the Æwillingas, the people of the well. Certainly there were other loose-knit communities in Surrey with names like this – the Dorcingas took their name from the river Dorce, now the Mole, while the Woccingas and Godhelmingas were named after local chiefs. In the seventh and eighth centuries, as the population grew, cattle-ranching was given up in favour of agriculture, and people settled in one village all the year round, the Dorcingas giving their name to Dorking and so on. When sites were cleared for settlement, they were called ham, ‘enclosure’; at the foot of the Downs, where springwater rises readily from the chalk, there is a string of these settlements, from Cheam, ‘enclosure by 10 JUNE 2018

the felled trees’, to Bookham, ‘enclosure among the beeches’. Epsom is named after Ebbi, an early owner of the estate. Trees needed to be cleared when new buildings were put up, but by and large the land had been kept from reverting to wilderness, even in the worst years of depopulation. Areas such as Epsom Common and Horton which had been maintained as woodland under the old order increased in size, but the light soils of the downland were kept from being overgrown. At Ashtead there are several fields bounded by regular roads, which appear to have been laid out in Roman times and not to have changed since then. Evidently the farm passed directly, through gift or inheritance, into the hands of a Saxon landowner. A cemetery was established at the Grove in Ewell: it dates from the sixth century, when the immigrant Saxon population had grown to dominate the area. The people who were buried there may have lived some distance away, since special places were often chosen for the cemetery of a whole district. Some of the funerals involved cremation, others were simple burials in the earth – the sandy soil is easy to dig – so it seems there were at least two groups involved. Possibly they came from different family traditions. There was an ancient earthwork on the slopes above the Grove, where Tayles Hill is now, and this probably influenced the choice of site. Old monuments, dating from the haunted past before the coming of the English, always inspired a kind of nervous respect. Published courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum www.epsom-ewell.gov.uk www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk

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FASCINATING GUIDED WALKS Walks cost £5 per person and places are limited to 25 people per walk (except South St which is 15 places). All places must be booked with David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, KT17 1UF Tel: 020 8394 1734 Email: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk Horton and the Manor Hospital

Friday 20th July 7.30pm to 9pm

Tuesday 21st August 2pm to 3.30pm

Explore Epsom’s ancient heart along its oldest

Sunday 12th August 2pm to 3.30pm

road. Originally the centre of Epsom village it

Friday 3rd August 7.30pm to 9pm

became one of the finest addresses in town.

Uncover the medieval landscape of Horton and

Discover the oldest surviving residential building

the long-forgotten moated manor house and

and the site of Epsom’s own brewery. See the

ancient barn. See how the landscape was

parish church, mentioned in Domesday Book and

affected by the Victorian policy of keeping

the grand houses once inhabited by Epsom’s

patients with mental illnesses out of sight. See

lords and ladies. Learn about Epsom’s

where the last defence line to defend London was

educational past at the old Technical Institute

built against German invasion. Hear how

building, and the importance of the fire station in

important the Manor Hospital was in WW1, and

World War 2. Please meet opposite the fire station

how the nursing staff dealt with a V1 in the

in Church Street.

Second. Find out how the mental hospitals

Epsom Downs

changed Epsom forever. Please meet by the pond

Thursday 16th August 2pm to 3.30pm

on Stamford Green.

Saturday 25th August 2pm to 3.30pm

Chalk Lane to World’s End

Friday 24th August 7.30pm to 9pm

Tuesday 10th July 2pm to 3.30pm

Discover the history of Epsom’s grandstands,

Sunday 29th July 2pm to 3.30pm

which have provided a home for Mrs. Beeton to a

Friday 6th July 7.30pm to 9pm

hospital for wounded soldiers. Learn what part

From Madan’s Walk to Worlds End, enjoy walking

the Downs have played in wartime, from the

around this fascinating part of old Epsom.

English Civil War to the Battle of Britain – armies

Discover Highgate House and its resident ghost

have trained here and during WW1 20,000 men

together with other grand houses including

paraded in a snowstorm. The Racecourse and the

Maidstone House and Woodcote House. See The

Downs were saved by the actions of one man

Durdans, home to Lord Rosebery and visited by

during WW2 – discover who and how. Hear tales

kings, and learn about the influence of the

of the Derby, Gypsies, pubs and ghosts! Please

Northey family. Discover pubs past and present

meet outside the Derby Arms.

and the impact that both World Wars had on this

South Street and Dorking Road

tranquil part of town. Please meet by the pond in

Wednesday 25th July 2pm to 3.30pm

Rosebery Park.

Sunday 5th August 2pm to 3.30pm

Epsom’s Oldest Road

Friday 27th July 7.30pm to 9pm

Tuesday 17th July 2pm to 3.30pm

We look at the history of Beccon Soales Lane as

Saturday 11th August 2pm to 3.30pm

these roads were known in the past. From Pepys

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to Constable, from Lord Rosebery to the Rolling

Friday 13th July 7.30pm to 9pm

Stones, find out about people who are associated

Discover the ancient village of Stamford and the

with the road in which a future PM’s wife lived as

surrounding area of Epsom Common.

a child. Discover the secrets of the Workhouse

Hear how the common folk made a living and

and Poor House. Learn about mansions at the

used the Common from brick making to laundry

Clock House, the Hylands, Hylands House and

work. Visit the spot where Epsom salts were

Woodcote Hall – and vanished public houses

found and hear how Epsom became the place to

including the splendours of the New Inn. Please

be and be seen - discover how the humble salts

meet out side the Epsom Playhouse entrance. We

started the world’s greatest flat horse race and a

can only host 15 people on this walk because of

battle! Discover Epsom’s lost windmill and race

the narrowness of the pavements.

course and its Roman past, learn how the

Nonsuch Park and Palace

Common played an important part in WW2 and

Tuesday 24th July 2pm to 4pm

hear about a WW1 ghost! Please meet by the

Enjoy a guided walk around Nonsuch Park and

pond on Stamford Green. We may be walking on

explore the history of the beautiful landscape. See

the paths on the Common so if it is wet, have

where the original palace once stood and how it

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dominated the local area. From the ruins of the

Horrible Ewell

banqueting hall, hear stories of luxurious palaces,

Tuesday 14th August 2pm to 3.30pm

ambitious royalty, lost churches and lingering

Friday 17th August 7.30pm to 9pm

ghosts. Listen to tales of battles and discover how

Discover Ewell’s dark past and the tales that some

warfare has touched this ancient landscape.

would rather forget. Learn about exploding

Discover which famous television presenter’s

gunpowder mills and visit the graveyard where the

ancestors used to live here and how a Queen

victims rest in peace. Tread in the footsteps of the

once came to tea. Please meet on the lawn

body-snatchers and see where they plied their

opposite the café in Nonsuch Mansion House.

grisly trade. Hear stories of witches, tragic coach

Nearest car park entry is from Cheam Road,

crashes and folk who won’t stay dead! Discover

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Ewell’s historic jail and see what eighteenth-

Ashley Road Cemetery, second walk

century justice was like. Please meet at the main

Thursday 5th July 2pm to 3.30pm

entrance to Bourne Hall

Saturday 28th July 2pm to 3.30pm

Ashley Road Cemetery first walk

Visit the last resting places of local military men,

Tuesday 3rd July 2pm to 3.30pm

including a General, racing men, and the

Saturday 21st July 2pm to 3.30pm

business, trade and shop owners who made

Explore Epsom’s Victorian cemetery and visit the

Epsom what it is today. Trace the last resting

final resting place of the town’s lords and ladies.

place of some who died in service to the area on

Mrs Beeton’s mother, Elizabeth Dorling, enjoyed

the Home Front in World War 2. Find writers a test

the dubious privilege of being the first person to

pilot, weapon designers, an erotic dancer, a VC

be officially interred in 1871, but the first burial

winner and some tragic lives cut shot. Please

was much earlier. Discover monuments to people

meet at the main gates on Ashley Road (the next

ranging from war heroes to jockeys to

gate after the War Memorial).

politicians… and learn why Epsom’s war memorial

Epsom Common and Spa

is situated here rather than in the town centre.

Thursday 12th July 2pm to 3.30pm

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CHANCE TO TRY A NEW SPORT egistrations for the county's largest multi-sport youth competition - Specsavers Surrey Youth Games 2018 is open! For a chance to be part of Team Epsom & Ewell sign up online today at www.epsomewell.gov.uk/syg Now in its 22nd year, the annual Specsavers Surrey Youth Games offers young people aged 7-16 a fantastic opportunity to experience free coaching in a wide range of sports – badminton, boccia (a sport for young people with learning difficulties and physical impairments), boxing (contact and non-contact), cricket, football, hockey, judo, lacrosse, High 5 netball, netball, touch rugby, squash and tennis. Free training sessions take place from April to June. Please register online as soon as possible as some sport entries may close if they reach the maximum number of registrations. Participants selected to represent Team Epsom & Ewell at the Specsavers Surrey Youth Games finals weekend on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 June will compete with teams from ten other Surrey boroughs and districts. This year the event will be hosted at two venues, Surrey Sports Park in Guildford and Woking Leisure Centre. Team Epsom & Ewell will once again be sponsored by Better. To be eligible to compete for Team Epsom & Ewell at the Games,

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participants must live or go to school in Epsom and Ewell and meet the specific eligibility requirements of the sport(s) they have chosen (age, gender and playing standard). All of the sports only allow players of subcounty standard to participate and in many of the sports participants must be non-club members. Last year 220 young people represented the borough at the Games. The free training sessions led by local sports clubs, offer participants a chance to play their chosen sport after the Games have finished. Councillor Barry Nash, Chairman of the Council's Community and Wellbeing Committee said, “The Games offer young people a unique opportunity to try a new sport, take part in free coaching sessions, make new friends and experience competition in a fun and supportive environment. "Your borough needs you! We hope many young people will sign up for a chance to be part of Team Epsom & Ewell at this prestigious sporting event." If you are too old to compete in the Games and would still like to be involved, there are plenty of volunteer opportunities available too! To sign up and for details of the sports on offer for this year's Games, eligibility criteria, the training schedule and volunteering opportunities visit www.epsomewell.gov.uk/syg

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psom Choral Society was founded in 1922 by Sir Humphrey Milford, Publisher to the University of Oxford, to give his son Robin experience as conductor and choir-trainer through participation in the Leith Hill Musical Festival. Robin had begun his composition studies at the Royal College of Music with Ralph Vaughan Williams the year before. He passed the baton in 1934 to William Cole, under whose 3 year spell the choir was to do extremely well, winning many trophies in the competitions. Richard Fentiman, the Society's conductor from the end of the war until 1976, started the popular Christmas concerts in St Martin's Church, Epsom. Under his son, also Richard, the Society began its regular summer concerts. He was succeeded in 1980 by Peter Chase, organist at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, and lecturer at Trinity College of Music.

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In his tenure the Society added a third concert to its programme while retaining its involvement in the Festival. There then followed a period of a few years in which several conductors made a contribution: Clifford Tucker, Graham Lea-Cox, William Llewellyn, Murray Stewart, Nicholas Kok and, for very nearly 24 years until 2015, Robin Kimber. Under Robinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenure the choir grew and improved significantly, currently having a membership of over 120. Our present conductor, Julian Collings, was appointed in November 2015. Julian was educated as an organ scholar at Tonbridge School in Kent, before winning an organ scholarship to Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College, Cambridge in 1999. He gained the Associateship diploma of the Royal College of Organists whilst still at Tonbridge studying under Thomas Trotter and Sarah Baldock. He continued

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his organ studies in Cambridge with David Sanger, graduating with a music degree in the summer of 2002. During his time at Christ’s, Julian accompanied the college choir on tour to Scandinavia, the USA and Canada both as organist and conductor, as well as playing on a number of critically acclaimed CD releases. Julian is currently Director of Music at St Cyprian's Church, Clarence Gate and regularly deputises as an organist at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street. In addition to his church work, Julian is Musical Director of the South London Singers, the Barnes Choir and London chamber choir Ad Libitum as well as founding Musical Director of the Arcubus Ensemble, an acclaimed vocal group promoting the choral works of living composers. As an organ recitalist he has performed extensively both in the UK and overseas as well as broadcasting for BBC radio and television. Recent recital engagements have included Sheffield Cathedral, St Alban’s Abbey and St John’s College Cambridge as well as a number of recitals around the Channel Islands, France, Germany, Spain and Estonia. As organist with Svyati Duo, he regularly collaborates with cellist, Rebecca Hewes, performing concerts in the UK, Europe, Asia and the United States of America. Our accompanist, Marion Lea, studied at the Royal Academy of Music. As a freelance pianist she has performed in recitals and concerts with many singers and instrumentalists and broadcast on both television and radio. She also works as an orchestral pianist, accompanies auditions for the BBC,

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plays for choral societies and operatic companies and coaches singers. She has accompanied the Epsom Choral Society in rehearsals and concerts for very many years. The choir has performed a wide ranging repertoire including most of the major oratorio works, and added significant venues outside Epsom to its schedule such as Chichester Cathedral, Hampton Court and, in London, St Martinin-the-Fields and St James, Picadilly. We now perform five or six times a year in addition to the Leith Hill Musical Festival and have enjoyed many summer tours, mainly to the magnificent Churches and Cathedrals of Western Europe At Christmas time we enjoy singing carols for local charities in Epsom town centre, always under cover in the Ashley Mall. We are a friendly welcoming choir and also enjoy a highly active and entertaining social life, culminating at the start of each New Year, or thereabouts, with a party usually themed on our most recent choral tour. We rehearse on Wednesday evenings from 7.45pm to 10.00pm in St. Martin’s Church House, Church Street, Epsom KT17 4PX in three terms, usually commencing the second Wednesday in September. We welcome new members at any time but especially at the beginning of each term. If you are interested please contact our Membership Secretary Helen Phillips, email: membership@epsomchoral.org.uk For more information about Epsom Choral Society visit our website at www.epsomchoral.org.uk. David Pettigrew Vice Chairman & Publicity Epsom Choral Society JUNE 2018 21

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BOXING DAY DANCE or some, Boxing Day is a day for sport or going to the sales but in Ewell Village it is the day when hundreds turn out to watch the colourful Ewell St Mary’s Morris Men’s traditional Boxing Day dance tour of Ewell. Commencing at the Famous Green Man the tour culminates at the Mill, opposite the Wheatsheaf, with a traditional, Mummers play. Aiding the Morris men with the Mummers Play this Boxing Day was Epsom & Ewell’s Mayor Liz Frost who sportingly stepped in to deliver extra lines of infamy. The generosity of the visitors attending the Morris Men tour contributed £1167.00 for charity which was divided between St Mary’s Church Ewell and The Mayors Charities which includes: E&E Citizens Advice, Lower Mole Countryside Trust and

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Mayor Liz Frost receiving cheque from, Morris Men Ray Watson (Squire) and Alan Greenwood.

the Sunnybank Trust. Ewell St Mary’s Morris Men started their traditional Boxing Day Tour last century and do not want the tradition to die out so are looking now for new fun loving recruits to join them to be ready for next year. To get involved or for more details check their Facebook page or send an email to contact@ewellmorris.co.uk

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well Tennis Club, founded in 1923, is a friendly local club with three allweather (artificial grass) courts, all floodlit. All players are welcome – social, junior, competitive and anything in between. A professional coach is on hand to help those who have not played for some time. The club has a thriving junior section for children aged between 9-18 who receive regular coaching at the weekends and during school holidays. Juniors who reach the required standard are offered “star status” which gives them the opportunity to join in the adult social sessions. Special coaching sessions are available for children under nine. Playing members may introduce a visitor, who can make a maximum of six visits to the club in any one tennis year for a small fee. The courts are open for play seven days a week throughout the year. Social sessions are held on and Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. Junior coaching sessions are held on Saturday mornings and certain times during the school holidays. If not reserved for matches, the courts are available at all other times. The clubhouse (pictured above) has a large carpeted central room (with a table tennis table and TV), which is used for social activities as well as a waiting area between play; a well-

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equipped kitchen; and separate changing rooms for men and women. There is a private car park and the clubhouse is fronted by a garden used by spectators and for outdoor social events. Balls are provided by the club and changed frequently. Tokens, £2 each, give 40 minutes of floodlight play per court. Subscriptions are due on May 1 each year and members joining later in the year pay a proportion of the annual fee. A reduction of 20% is given to playing members who are parents of one or more junior members. For more serious players, four teams are fielded in the summer local league each year as well as a high standard team throughout the year in the Surrey League. Inter-club tournaments include the annual Club Championships, Mixed Handicap, Veterans and Junior. Social events for members and their guests include a summer barbecue in the club grounds and strawberry tea on Finals Day. Social suppers are held once a month on Wednesday evenings throughout the summer. Social members are welcome at all events; the fee is £1 a year or life membership is offered for £10. Free trial sessions can be arranged through the membership secretary, Keith Tutton, 07711 036107. Website:ewelltennis.co.uk

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WHAT’S ON BARISONS SINGERS n Sunday 24th June 2018 Barisons Singers in collaboration with the Epsom & Ewell Town Twinning Associations will be bringing a Vivaldi Gloria workshop for all choir singers in the areas, to come together and join them for the 100 Voices performance that evening. Professional coaching will be supplied throughout the day from Soloists who have worked with the English National Opera, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and the English Touring opera. The performance will be accompanied by a professional orchestra and conductor.

If you love Vivaldi, if you love singing the Gloria then you will love our come and sing with 100 Voices day. If you would prefer to listen rather than sing, then you are very welcome to come along as a member of the audience Entry fee will be £5.00 per person. Part of the proceeds will be going towards the local mental health charity Love Me Love My Mind, which is based at St Barnabas church, the venue for the workshop and performance.” For workshop applications, contact Brian Hill on 07885 842 636 or email barisons@aol.com

E W E L L H O RT I C U LT U R A L A S S O C I AT I O N A talk: ‘Colour in the garden all year homemade cakes round’ by Claire Brown, owner of a cut Displays of - summer flowers, home grown flower farm in Surrey vegetables, cookery, photography, craft & Date: Tuesday 8 JUNE 2018 and floral art plus plants and garden Participants gather for Round the Borough design Bike last year in Horton County Park. Time: 8pm sundries for sale Place: Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell Website www.ewellhortassn.co.uk KT17 1UF fully accessible venue Email – eha_details@ewellhortassn.co.uk Parking: on-site car park, evening parking Autumn Show fee 40p. Cost: £3 members, £4 visitors Date – Saturday 22 September includes refreshments and raffle, visitors Time – 2.30 to 4.30pm very welcome Venue – Blenheim High School, Longmead Website: www.ewellhortassn.co.uk Road, Epsom KT19 9BH, fully accessible Email: talks@ewellhortassn.co.uk venue Summer Show Public Transport – 418 bus (Epsom to Date – Saturday 30 June Kingston) Ewell West Station (Waterloo Line) Time – 2.30 to 4.30pm Free Admission - all welcome, free parking, Venue – Blenheim High School, Longmead a raffle plus refreshments with delicious Road, Epsom KT19 9BH, fully accessible homemade cakes venue Displays of - late summer flowers, home grown Public Transport – 418 bus (Epsom to vegetables, cookery and floral art plus plants, Kingston) Ewell West Station (Waterloo Line) bulbs and garden sundries for sale Free Admission - all welcome, free parking, Website – www.ewellhortassn.co.uk a raffle plus refreshments with delicious Email – eha_details@ewellhortassn.co.uk 26 JUNE 2018

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WHAT’S ON ROUND THE BOROUGH BIKE

Participants gather for Round the Borough Bike last year in Horton County Park.

he annual Round the Borough Bike takes place on Sunday 13 May. Beginners and keen cyclists alike are invited to explore this mostly off-road 20 miles route that joins up some of the most stunning scenery in Epsom and Ewell, including Epsom Downs, Epsom Common, Nonsuch Park, the Hogsmill and Horton Country Park. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council launched the Round the Borough Bike in 2014, to build on the legacy of the London Olympics and the borough hosting stage 7 of the 2013 Tour of Britain. Last year over 200 individuals took part. Although the way is permanently

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marked, for the event marshals are in place at various points around the route to ensure no one gets lost and participants who complete the route will receive a certificate in recognition of their achievement. Off-road cycles are recommended. There will be a staggered start at Horton Country Park with the fastest leaving at around 9.15am with those wanting a more laid back experience departing at 9.30am Registration is online via the Council website (www.epsom-ewell.gov.uk) until Thursday 10 May. Those unable to register on-line should aim to be at the start for 9am on the Sunday for registration.

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Work o ks shop cost: £15 per pers rson (b (bri ring your own wn copy of Gloria) or £25 per pers rson (includes purrc (i chase of a copy) y) Cost includes ref efrreshments. Aud diience tickets: £5.00 Closing date fo for workshop applica ati tions: Monday 4th June 2018 (Sub bjject to avaiillabilility ty of places s) For more inforrm mati tion and to re request an applliication fo form rm pleas se contact: Brian Hill ll Tel: 07885 842 636 Emaiill: bari risons@aol.com The perrffor orm mance is sponsored by the Ep Epsom and Ewellll Town wn Tw Twinning Association in support of Love me Love my Mind d,, a local menta tal health chari rity ty based at St Barnab bas Churc rch, Ep Epsom

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WHAT’S ON BOU 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 Epsom’s dodgy Derbys, dark deeds and ghosts Sunday May 27 4-5.30pm & 7.30-9pm Monday May 28 2-3.30pm & 7.30-9pm Tuesday May 29 2-3.30pm & 7.30- 9pm Wed May 30 11-12.30pm & 7.30-9pm Look beneath Epsom’s respectable surface whilst you stroll around its ancient town centre. Discover dark deeds, wrongdoings and ghosts who won’t rest in peace. Hear tales of Epsom’s own highwayman and the life of the evil Lord Rochester, and dastardly Lord Baltimore, together with the even more wicked Lord Lyttleton. Epsom’s spa was the height of fashion but the behaviour of some visitors was not as elevated as their pedigree. Hear how the 1919 Derby led to the Epsom riot! Also discover why the 1844 race was the most crooked ever run. Please meet by the Clock Tower. £5 per person. Cow finds Epsom salts! Saturday 9th June 1pm to 2.30pm This year is the 400th anniversary of the Discovery of Epsom Salts Find out how it was discovered with the help of a cow! This made the name Epsom known around the world and would lead to the Derby, a battle and England’s first Spa town. Hear how the spa took off as Epsom grew from a village to a town and was visited by the great and the good and the great and not so good! Find out what a good night out was like out at the height of the spa. Epsom salts has many uses even today – discover some of them. 30 JUNE 2018

Discover Dad’s Army Wednesday 30th May 2pm to 3.30pm On Friday 10 May 1940, the Germans had started their attack on Belgium and the Netherlands using soldiers dropped by parachutes. British troops in mainland Europe were pushed back to the Channel ports. Many people feared that the Germans would soon invade Britain. To protect Britain, a new parttime force was to be set up, the Local Defence Volunteers. The Government made an urgent appeal on the radio to all men aged between 17 and 65 to become part-time soldiers. Within 24 hours of the radio broadcast a quarter of a million men had volunteered. Many of the men who joined the Home Guard were those who could not join the regular army because their day-time jobs were necessary to keep the country running. They included farm workers, bakers, teachers, grocers, bank staff and railway workers. Other men who joined were either too young or too old to join the regular army. They were given military style training, although at first they had no uniforms and little equipment. The public were invited to give shotguns and pistols and within a few months over 20,000 weapons were handed in. At the end of July they were changed from Local Defence Volunteers to the name we remember them by, the Home Guard.

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