Maldens Village Voice Nov 20 by jenny stuart

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Welcome to YOUR Village Voice from jenny@maldenmedia.co.uk

November I do hope that you are keeping well during these troubling times and that we will be returned to a more familiar normality over the coming months. We are missing so much at the moment, in terms of activities and socials. Who’d have thought back in March that fireworks displays would be cancelled – if you’re doing your own, please stay safe… Unfortunately our 2 big November events in New Malden High Street – the Remembrance Parade and Christmas parade are both also casualties of social distancing restrictions, although the poppies are already up on lampposts and our Christmas lights will be turned on at the end of November. Santa, we will miss seeing you perform this task!

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As restrictions start to be lifted we should be able to start including club and community information again and, hopefully, even some What’s On listings. If you have something to contribute, or would like to advertise in our December edition please do get in touch. And thanks so much to all of our advertisers this month, I do hope that you’ll support them and our other local businesses during continuingly difficult times for many. So we can deliver the magazine to most of the KT3 postcode, we are again splitting the distribution over a two month period. If you have had this edition delivered you probably won’t get the December one. There are a limited number of copies available from Waitrose, New Malden library, and the Malden Centre but don’t forget that it is also published online - you can get the link from our website. Until next time, best wishes,

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New Malden History Put that light out by Robin Gill In today’s confused and anxious times, we may have forgotten when our community was under threat from a force we could see. During the course of the Second World War Maldens and Coombe received 1227 air raid warnings, causing 552 casualties. Practically every property was damaged to some degree, and 330 were demolished due to enemy action. There were 570 bombs dropped, not including incendiaries, and 22 flying bombs. As a result, 1400 people were rendered homeless, and over 6000 were evacuated. During those trying times there were many acts of heroism which went unrecorded, but there were a few who received some source of recognition. Percy Blanchard Coleman Percy Blanchard Coleman was born in Tooting in 1900, the son of William Dalmas Coleman and his wife Rose Ellen. The family moved to New Malden after the First World War living in Coombe Gardens. He married Ada Grace Rogers in 1924 at Wandsworth, moving back to Malden in the 1930s living in Elm Road. Percy an employee of Boots the Chemist in Malden Road (now WH Smith in the High Street), volunteered as a part-time ARP warden in August 1939 at the start of the Second World War. On August 16th 1940, when the siren sounded to show that a raid was imminent, he reported to his post, and was sent on patrol. Normally the wardens patrolled in pairs, as this could be in the middle of an air raid they were in considerable danger from bombs, shrapnel and falling masonry. They were also detailed to check regularly on those in the air raid shelters. This time however Percy was on patrol by himself when he was thrown to the ground by three, HE (High Explosive) bombs that landed nearby. After recovering from the effects of the blasts, he returned to his post to report the area suffering from “serious damage and fire”. Reflecting later on the incident he “thought it was the end of Malden”, everything was covered in a “dense black fog” One side of the road was ablaze due to a fractured gas main, while the other was impassable due to live trolley bus wires which had been brought down, and were crackling as they flayed around.

Returning to his patrol he spotted a house that had been hit, partly demolished, and was on fire. He rescued a child from the debris, and handed him/her over to the “street helpers”. The parents were trapped upstairs in the house and he could hear their shouts for help. Making rudimentary scaffolding out of nearby wood he managed to reach the couple through the flames, and bring them down to safety. “It wasn’t bravery, as a warden I had a job to do, and I did it”. He believed any other warden would have acted in the same way. After rendering first aid to another child who had been blown into a blast hole and suffering from minor injuries, he took him back to his post where further help could be given. Percy continued his rescue work for further hours until suffering from extreme exhaustion he was ordered to rest. “Bombs were still falling, but people came out of the shelter to help. They were marvellous” For his action that day Percy Coleman was awarded the George Medal in January 1941. Percy died in 1980 at home in Elm Road seemingly forgotten. His medal was auctioned off in April 2004 realising £1850. Denis George Wells Denis/Denys George Wells was born in Bedford in 1881 the son of George Wells a former mayor of the town. He married Ethel Burford in 1906, the family moved to New Malden just after the First World War, and in 1940 they were living in Kingston Road. Denis was well known as a still life and figure painter having exhibited in many

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His commanding officer stated “This man is worthy of great praise. Although wounded, he stuck to his post, and although it is evident, he must have been suffering intense pain, he left his own injuries until all was clear”. For this action Denis George Wells was awarded the BEM (British Empire Medal) in 1941. Denis George Wells died in 1973 aged 92

galleries. He became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1910, and was a vice president of the society at the time of his death in 1973. Aged 59 he was too old to serve in the forces, so volunteered as an ARP warden. On 16th August 1940, he was on patrol in his section, and shouted to two women to take cover or lie down, as bombs were falling. They paid no attention and were killed. Denis threw himself, full length into the gutter and escaped with just a wound to his thigh. Although injured, he continued to be involved in the rescue work and carried on for a further 12 hours, and only after all the injured had been treated, did he report back to his post for treatment. Shrapnel had to be removed from his right leg from above and below his knee.

Frederick William Lindsay Frederick William Lindsay was born September 23rd 1900 at 6 Oak Cottages (4 Kingston Road), the son of Frederick Lindsay a carman for the council working in the highways department. He married Elsie Laura Ruth Phillimore in 1924, and moved to 38 Long Walk working as an assistant road foreman. He had been working for the ARP since 1938 as the leader of a rescue party and was called out to an “incident” on the 18th September 1940 at 1-3 Alric Avenue at 8.47 pm, where both houses had been demolished. Four people were buried under the debris of No 3, and the air raid was still in progress; with enemy planes overhead and shell fragments raining down the rescue team got down to work. The wall of No 5 was in danger of collapse, and the tremor of the anti-aircraft guns were causing it to shake ominously. It was so dangerous that the police told them to withdraw on two occasions. This was against the rescuers wishes, and they

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continued with their efforts until relieved at 7.30 am the next day. Four bodies were eventually found some ten foot down on the 20th September at 12.30pm. On 1st October the squad at 03.45am was called out again to rescue six people from a shelter at 68 Orme Road which had collapsed. The shelter itself had been badly built inside a garden shed, consisting of wooden beams and sandbags and a HE bomb caused it to fall in on the sheltering occupants. They included a two-yearold in a cradle who was rescued along with the others, although an unexploded shell had landed next door in the garden of No 64 making time of the essence, and all those were rescued in 45 minutes. On 14th October the squad was involved again in an incident at 341/343 South Lane where four adults and a child were trapped in an Anderson shelter which had been built between the two houses. Both entrances had been blocked by debris, and the wall of No 341 was in danger of collapsing at any moment. The squad started digging at the front. The child and mother, together with an elderly lady were pulled out, but the man was trapped under a fall of wood, and it took 2 ½ hrs to rescued him. An elderly man was trapped in his wheelchair, and to get him out the team had to saw off the back of his chair and pull him through the tunnel which had been dug. The wall of No 341 collapsed on top of the shelter a little while after the rescue had been completed at 1am the following morning. For these acts of bravery Frederick Lindsay was awarded the George Medal. He died in late 1969 aged 69 at Long Walk. William Thomas Holmes Police Constable William Thomas Holmes was born circa 1902 and lived at 124 Brockenhurst Avenue. He had served in the force for fifteen years, and on 21st October 1940 at 6.30am a report was received at New Malden police station of a large explosion from a delayed action bomb at Barnelms 13 Perry How. The original bomb had fallen in the front garden of the property at 1am making a crater in the garden, and in the pavement. The force of the subsequent explosion

some hours later, blew the local police sergeant (Edward Warren) stationed at the Plough shops across the footpath into a shop doorway. Using the telephone in the shop, PS Warren called the police station reporting what had happened, and stated he was proceeding to Perry How. PC Holmes was already on the scene with others, and a baby’s cry could be heard from the wreckage. The police started to immediately dig, and eventually the hole was big enough to allow PC Holmes access to the ruins of the building. Locating Mrs Ellis, he was able he was able to free her and passed her through the hole to the waiting first aid party. He then found a baby’s cot pinned down with brickwork. Lifting this with one hand, he was able to free the baby aged 18 months with the other, and bring her out. Returning to the hole, he found Mr Ellis pinned down by a large piece of brick wall and timber. Holmes lifted the wall enabling the man to free himself, and he was then helped out of the debris. During the period of this rescue there was a real chance of the rest of the house subsiding. The only injuries to the police, were a couple of pairs of torn trousers. The injured from the house were taken to the First Aid Centre in Church Road. For his action that day PC Holmes was awarded the BEM. Robert Frederick Knight Deputy Post Warden Robert Knight was born in 1891, lived at 15 Malden Road, was a retired army officer, working as a vet’s assistant. On November 15th 1940 at 11.30pm Robert Knight was on duty on patrol in Alric Avenue. He was advised that No 50 Cambridge Avenue had been hit by a HE bomb. When he and other wardens arrived, he saw a man standing in front of the house who informed him that a lady who was in bed upstairs at the back, and could he rescue her as that section of the house had been demolished, and the bed was left hanging over the side. Knight started climbing the debris left by the blast and managed to gain access to the room. There, he helped the lady aged 76 find her clothes, and when a ladder was finally available, helped her down. Though she was not injured, her feet and legs were pinned down by fallen plaster, and not surprisingly, she was very much alarmed. In the process of the rescue four more HE bombs fell close by, together with many incendiaries which ironically gave light to aid the relief effort. The lady’s personal possessions were located, and wrapped in her eiderdown she came down a ladder into the back garden. Mr and Mrs Low at No 49 gave her shelter. Nos 33, 35, and 39 Cambridge Avenue had also been hit and Mr and Mrs Hewitt at No33 were trapped in a

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downstairs room. Warden Knight helped to clear the debris till a rescue party arrived to free the couple. A final check on the welfare of the lady previously rescued, found her in an armchair in front of the fire chatting with the vicar Rev Arthur Willoughby Habershon. This enable Knight to return to his post. For his actions that night he received a commendation. He died in 1961 aged 70. For these people, and many others who were unknown, we should be grateful.

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New Malden Rotary Christmas is coming …… or is it? “Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man’s hat.” The old nursery rhyme may seem a bit hollow this Christmas but the second part still holds true whatever the conditions. The environment may be different but people and small local charities still need help and will look to all of us to respond.

regardless of race, religion or culture, deserve to enjoy the spirit of Christmas which most of us take for granted. Rotary, like other organisations, will do what it can to help – and for that we in turn rely on the generosity and spirit of kindness of those living and working in our community. So look out for us and together we can continue to make Christmas a little more cheerful for others less fortunate.

For Rotary members in New Malden our time now would normally be spent brushing down Rudolph, AND DON’T FORGET when you start your Christmas preparing his sleigh, finalising the planning for Santa’s shopping that your local shops and traders need your switch on of the Christmas lights and working out this support more than ever this year and particularly year’s routes around New Malden as we collect for 'local and P U T those Y O Uwho R are G Aindependent RDEN M A Ilocally N T Eowned. N A NOur CE IN THE charities. Street theEsmaller around H A N DHigh S O F Sand OM O N Eshopping W H O parades REAL LY CARES' New Malden are invaluable assets for our town; let’s This is a key moment for fundraising in our Rotary year not lose them. Think Local and Shop Local. - Tree surgery - One off Tidy and we shall do what we can to preserve a degree of ‘normality’. First, barring any unforeseen incidents, Discover more about New Malden RotaryGrinding and our - Stump - Garden Maintenance we shall at the end of November be lighting up the Christmas efforts at newmaldenrotary.org.uk - Strimming and and Weeding - Decking and Lawns High Street and, with the help of our friends in CSL, St follow us on Facebook and Twitter. - Garden clearance Hedge Trimming George’s Square. There will not be a parade and Santa - Path and Patio Washing - Landscaping will be missing but at least the Christmas lights will appear and stay on throughout the festive season. Secondly, Rotary members will be out and about fundraising in some form prior to 25th December. We hope to have Rudolph and his sleigh, with Santa, touring New Malden over several nights, and maybe some daytime appearances in the High Street.

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Community A Message from The Malden Fortnight Committee We have had to make a decision regarding the Annual Lights Switch On which traditionally takes place on the last Friday in November. Many of you will have witnessed this fantastic community event which starts with a parade - with New Malden Rotary Club Santa’s sleigh carrying Father Christmas and the Mayor - and watched for years by many hundreds of our local residents. Due to the ongoing Covid 19 situation and the fact that we cannot enforce social distancing along the High Street and in St. George’s Square; reluctantly we have no choice but to cancel the event. What remains now is for RBK and their contractors Kier to carry out their usual testing of the lights and switch them on without ceremony at 5.30 in the evening of Friday 27th November. We do hope that this, in some way will make up for the disappointment that we feel and also the families who enjoy this event.

We hope you keep safe and that we can update you with details of our summer programme closer to the time, depending on what restrictions may be in place. Best wishes to you all. Tony Gooding Chair, Malden Fortnight Committee

Music in New Malden Sunday 8 November at 3pm (available on Music in New Malden YouTube channel) Cinquain (wind quintet) (Elizabeth Walker - flute, James Eastaway - oboe, Jane Booth - clarinet, Catriona McDermid - bassoon, Jonathan Farey - horn) Zemlinsky – Humoreske Byrd arr. McDermid – Vigilate Nielsen Wind Quintet op. 4 Further concerts continue in the New Year on Sundays on 10 January, 14 February, 14 March, 11 April, 9 May, 13 June all at 3pm and can be found on Music in New Malden's YouTube channel.

Good News!! The annual sheep tail in the High Street will happen again this year. The knitted sheep with their name tags will be distributed by the last Friday in November and remain on show until the New Year so there will be plenty of time to download the form from our church website from Dec 1st. newmaldenmethodistchurch.com This year so it’s just for fun for all the family.

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Churches Together in Malden Within this very strange and, for some, difficult times we wanted you to know that your local churches are still there for you and functioning, even if differently. The majority are providing services on-line or by Zoom for those who are needing to self-isolate; while some are beginning to open for corporate worship, although needing to follow government guidelines. At this time of year, we would normally be including within the ‘Village Voice’ a copy of the services each church is planning for the Christmas season. However, because times are so different, and arrangements uncertain, we would ask you to make contact via the websites, where details can be found.

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St James(CofE) stjamesmalden.org St. John’s (CofE) sjnm.org Christ Church (CofE) ccnm.org Baptist nmbc.org.uk Methodist newmaldenmethodistchurch.com URC newmaldenurc.org.uk St Joseph’s (RC) catholicnewmalden.org St Pius X (RC) stpiusxchurch.org.uk

STREET CHAMPIONS As many of you will be aware a number of individuals have acted as collection points for our local Food Banks etc. It has been suggested that people, in addition, might like to donate gifts for distribution to local families in need at this time. These could be placed in the same boxes (if wrapped then please label with age / boy / girl; or leave in a polythene bag). Details of collecting points can be found at: www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1NaMPuODDKM0flzU0GNnNzfckuATLBFi&ll=51.39905456273211%2C-0.26156835189453886&z=15 or Contact your local church for information via their website (above) To advertise email jenny@maldenmedia.co.uk or call 020 8336 2915

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Pets

Fireworks Phobia If your pet becomes really distressed during bonfire season, it could be that they have ‘firework phobia’. RSPCA animal behaviour expert Dr Samantha Gaines says: “Firework phobia in pets is a treatable condition and we recommend planning ahead to help your pet cope. For example, if your dog really seems to suffer, your vet may suggest referral to a clinical animal behaviourist to teach him/her to deal with the sounds, or suggest the use of diffusers which disperse calming chemicals into the room.” It is also a good idea to provide your dog with a safe haven – perhaps under some furniture or in a cupboard – and it is best to get them used to this before the season starts. Choose somewhere quiet and help him to learn that being there is positive and that no harm will come to him. You can do this

by giving him toys or a variety of chew toys. Small animals that live outside should have lots of extra bedding so they can burrow. Some of their enclosure could be covered by a blanket for extra insulation and soundproofing. If you are planning to bring them indoors just before the fireworks are likely to start, then introduce this a week or two in advance. Finally if you are using fireworks yourself, try to stick to traditional celebration dates like Bonfire Night, when most animal owners will be expecting fireworks and will hopefully have made preparations to help their animals cope.

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Getting Fruity

by Pippa Greenwood

Would you like to grow some fruit in your garden, but are a bit short on space? There’s a simple solution: make the fruit work in more ways than one. Fruit trees, canes and bushes need not be just productive and tasty, but can also be made to perform other functions in a garden – and with a bit of extra thought and creativity, you can make best use of their good looks too. Fruit plants are available at most times of year, but it is between about now and early next year that the widest selection is available from specialist fruit nurseries as ‘bare root’ plants, and this is also the perfect time to plant fruit. A simple and otherwise boring metal arch can easily be transformed into a fruity delight if you train tree fruit such as apples or pears up the vertical sides and over the top. Make sure you have perfect pollination (and so maximum crops) by choosing two different apples, one planted up each side of the arch. Choose apples in the same pollination group and they will each pollinate the other. You can use cordon apples or simple ‘whips’ (basically a straight stem and the least expensive way to buy fruit). A good fruit tree nursery will be able to advise you as to the best combination to grow. Cherries can do surprisingly well in a large pot or planter, or in a wooden half-barrel. The combination of their lovely white blossom in spring followed by shiny cherries in the summer also means that they make an attractive plant for a sunny, sheltered patio or back yard. When you buy your cherry make sure you ask for one on what is called a ‘dwarfing rootstock’, such as Gisela 5, meaning that the variety you select has been grafted on to a different cherry – one that will ensure it does not get too big. If space is really limited then there are many types of fruit that take up extremely little space. You can either get varieties sold as Ballerina apples or, for even better value and to increase the range of varieties you can choose from, choose cordon apples or pears and simply train them vertically. These will form columnar trees that can be spaced 60-90cm (2-3ft) apart. To keep the shape good and compact, you’ll need to prune the fruiting laterals in summer and restrict the height of the trees to 1.8-2.4m (6-8ft). Perfect for planting at the front of a vegetable plot or a flower border, a stepover is basically trained to form just one ‘arm’ of fruit to the left and one to the right.

You can buy these ready-trained and the horizontal arms are generally about 45cm (18ins) above ground level, meaning that you can easily step over the apple. Covered with blossom in spring and fruit later in the summer, they look great and taste wonderful too! Vines are another great option, and have the potential to produce a good crop in the UK if grown in a sheltered, sunny spot. They can be trained over

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a wall or allowed to grow over a pergola to create shade. Many vines have leaves that take on fabulous autumnal colours. There was a time when growing a peach in this country meant having massive greenhouses (and fleets of gardeners to tend them!), but nowadays there are a number of varieties readily available that grow well and produce a very worthwhile crop. If you have the space, I’d recommend Avalon for its ability to crop in a warm summer, but there are several varieties available on sufficiently dwarfing root stocks that will do well in good-sized containers. Try peach Bonanza grafted on to a St Julien rootstock to keep it compact, which has attractive pink blossom and, despite its dwarf size, produces full-sized fruit. Hybrid berries can also be trained over arches to form useful shade and a very delicious crop. There are several options – one of my favourites is when they are loosely tied to a chunky wooden arch. You can then enjoy the flowers in spring or summer, and the rich good looks of the fruit in summer or autumn. Strawberries in a pot can crop heavily if kept well fed and watered. Either plant them into a large pot or other container full of good quality compost, or

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Home Instead - Caring through Covid Living through a pandemic has reminded us that human contact shouldn’t be underestimated. We at Home Instead know that the bond between our clients and CAREGivers is special, but we could never have anticipated just how dedicated our CAREGivers have become to supporting our clients through lockdown and beyond. We wanted to highlight just a couple. Overcoming feelings of anxiety: Many clients chose to self-isolate during the initial lockdown. Carly was asked to go back to one such client after nearly three months of no contact. Carly’s client, Joan, suffers with anxiety and Carly was nervous too. With lots of gentle encouragement Carly was allowed in and they both started to relax, calmed by the precautions Carly had taken. The client’s daughter hadn’t been allowed to visit since March and anyone else who had tried, including her two sons, couldn’t get over the threshold and were only allowed to talk to her through the window. Carly’s professionalism and understanding gave Joan the confidence to let her in. Thank you, Carly. Creative and cultural calls: Dianne and Vera are both music lovers, it is part of the reason they have bonded so well as client and CAREGiver. As a musician, Dianne can bring real joy to Vera with her visits but when the lockdown interrupted their time together

Dianne arranged video calls with Vera so that they could continue their musical sessions online. The sessions brought so much happiness to Vera and they are now regularly with each other again. Thank you, Dianne for your creative communication skills. Raising spirits and funds for charity: We couldn’t be with our clients for Macmillan’s Coffee Morning this year, so we provided CAREGivers with coffee-mornings-in-a-box instead. Nearly a hundred impromptu coffee mornings in client’s homes were hosted across Wimbledon and Kingston, lifting moods, and helping raise money for a great cause. Moments like these have helped return some normality in times that are anything but. We are always looking for new and innovative ways to deliver the right support at the right time. Reflecting on the last few months is a chance to feel truly proud of this outstanding team. If you would like to chat with one of our Care Managers about any aspect of care at home, please call 020 8942 4137 and Nancy or Tina will be happy to discuss how we can help.

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Folk Law from Pearson Hards A Day in the Life of Pearson Hards……. Pearson Hards can trace its roots back more than 70 years. In that time the world has thankfully avoided a Global Pandemic. Until now. In March we, along with everyone in the UK, faced the challenge of Covid 19. Every individual, every business, every family in the UK had to confront the unique reality of social distancing, furlough, travel restrictions and, in many cases, financial and personal hardship on a daily basis. At Pearson Hards our contingency plans for ‘the unexpected’ were put to the test in short order. Fountain House had been the focus, the home of Pearson Hards for considerably more than 20 years. Yet the need to protect lives and the National Health Service meant that virtually overnight we had to adjust to the new normal. And we did. Pearson Hards remained a connected whole thanks to modern technology and the intricate brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee. Thanks to the World Wide Web and our wonderful staff, we were able to continue to meet the demands of our clients, we hope seamlessly despite the lockdown. As time passed and the regulations relaxed we were able to move back to Fountain House. The new normal has brought changes, as it has done to everyone in the UK and elsewhere. We are all conscious of the need to balance the overriding need to protect the health and to ensure the safety of everyone, staff, clients and colleagues involved in Pearson Hards. A normal day in the new normal is however no different from the old normal. It is very much business as usual. Ian Lipscombe and his team in our Wealth Management Department will be dealing with wills, with lasting powers of attorney, alongside the sad circumstances of bereavement. Jonathan Throp and Hatice Mustafa, with the help of their team in the Residential Conveyancing department, will be dealing with the flurry of house moves stimulated in part by the government’s economic stimulus package including the SDLT concession which runs until March 2021. In the Family Law department Emma Rothstein and Claudene Howell will be managing the often

challenging and very personal issues involved in that area of law. Unfortunately the personal pressures arising out of the government restrictions have increased the demand for the advice and moderation which Emma and Claudene offer. In our Dispute Resolution department Claire Darby will be offering advice to clients who are experiencing challenges which they are finding difficult to resolve without resort to legal process. From the business client who is trying to balance the conflict between the government restrictions on operating their business and the economic demands of their supply chain, to the individual who has lost his job and is trying to manage the expectations of and pressure from his mortgage lender. The range is almost infinite, In our Commercial and Business Property department Donald Morrison and David Hards will be looking after the needs of clients who are selling their businesses, leasing property, managing the relationship between Landlord and Tenant, buying and selling commercial land and otherwise dealing with the range of business advice arising out of the changing business dynamic created by the Covid 19 crisis. In many respects the day in the life of Pearson Hards in October 2020 is not much different from that day in February 2020, apart from how we deliver the service to our clients and how we protect our staff. The flow of visitors to Fountain House is much reduced, regrettably. However it is replaced by the wonders of modern technology. Meetings can be held by video conferencing, court hearings are conducted via the internet, documents are signed and delivered electronically. Pearson Hards, Pearson Maddin, ACS Hards & Co, Chapmans and the other firms which are represented by the Pearson Hards banner have provided legal services to the local community for over 70 years and notwithstanding the unprecedented challenges which the Covid 19 crisis presents we aim to continue to adapt and develop in order to meet the needs of our clients.

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The Kingston Ballet School Kingston Ballet School is a dancing school in New Malden, established by its principal, Louise Jefferson, 1995. Classes began with 20 students and under Louise’s guidance the school has grown to over 200 students ranging in age from three to eighteen. Pupils are able to study the different dance genre of ballet, tap, modern dance and jazz and classes are offered at two venues Malden Wanderers Cricket Club and New Malden Methodist Church. The school’s ethos is to provide quality dance tuition in an atmosphere in which a child’s love of dance can thrive. We aim to inspire children in a happy school with excellent standards. Through our dedicated teaching of ballet, tap and modern dance we guide children from their first dancing steps to develop coordination and strength, good posture, self-expression and an appreciation of music to become skilled young dancers. We wish to give children the opportunity to have fun, develop new skills, make friends and develop a love and understanding of dance that can be taken into adulthood.

All staff at KBS are graduates and registered teachers of the Royal Academy of Dance being professionally trained to provide high quality teaching. In our imaginative dance classes we care for each individual child, giving them the opportunity to reach their full potential in friendly and safe environment. We facilitate exams for all students and the chance to perform on a professional stage in our tri-annual show. Several pupils have successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet’s Associate programmes and been accepted at vocational schools including Elmhurst and Central School of Ballet. Past pupils include Ebony Thomas, dancer with the company Ballet Black and actor Tom Holland, who trained at Kingston Ballet School in the preparation for his role as Billy Elliot New pupils are welcome to join the KBS at any time. Free trial lessons are offered to give you the chance to see that your child is happy in the class and to ensure that the class is of the correct level for their stage of development. For further information about the school please email Louise Jefferson at louise@kingstonballetschool.com or telephone 07909 139149.

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Wine! Drink in the label... Do you buy wine by the label? Yes! Of course you do! Wine labels are intrinsic to your wine experience although you don't drink the label it is the first thing that draws you to purchase that particular bottle. Some of our bestselling wines have animals on the label-known as "critter labels" it acts as a hook to entice you to buy the wine and even better, remember it for the next time! The Den Shiraz £11.99 & Old Vine Chenin £16.99 A super smooth blackberry fruited red and a honeyed creamy white come from Painted Wolf Wines in Paarl, South Africa. A proportion of the profits go towards protecting The Painted Wolves, an endangered species which were the subject of an episode of the David Attenborough series, Dynasties. Jeremy, the Winemaker stays in Norbiton when in England. Killikanoon Cabernet Sauvignon £16.99 This Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon takes its

name from a local character who was nick-named ‘Killerman’. This self-sufficient man lived alone in a humble tin shed. Living off fruit and vegetables he roamed the valley for his meals with rabbits being his favourite. Dark wild berries, ripe cassis, dark cacao and tobacco notes all nicely wrapped in well-balanced oak and fruit tannins. Trinca Bolotas £12.99 This wine takes its name from the Iberian black pig found across the Alentejo region in Portugal. A robust, black fruited blend of 3 native grapes with a gamey edge, it is a perfect companion to meaty casseroles. We were introduced to this wine by a customer who had enjoyed it on a cruise on the QEII. Drinks well on dry land too! Wolftrap Red & White £9.99 This pair of wines are consistently in my Top 10 bestsellers as they are both rich & powerful and full of flavour as you would expect from the makers of famous The Chocolate Block wine. Ripe berry fruited Syrah & Grenache with violet hints for the red and Chenin Blanc & Viognier deliver a peaches and cream delight. Dogpoint Sauvignon Blanc £17.99 Given many a time as a Thank You gift for dogsitting this is one of the top NZ Sauvignon

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History The History of Place Names by Catherine Rose

The origin of our village and town names can provide a fascinating insight into their history. Did you know that the study of place names is called toponomastics? Generally, places have earned their names from the people that founded the settlement, the surrounding landscape, or the flora and fauna that have featured there. Over time, with the evolution of language and through local dialects, place names have changed throughout generations, sometimes becoming quite different versions of what they were hundreds of years ago. The UK has had a varied history, having been home to many conquering invaders and numerous tribes. Consequently, our modern place names have been contributed to by the Celts, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings and even the French. We often think of the Romans as having founded our major cities but their Latin names were either based on the existing Old English ones or were so radically different that their use hasn’t survived (for example, the Roman Verulamium for what is now St Albans). Many people think the word ‘chester’ is Roman but in fact its roots are Celtic. Manchester is derived from the Celtic words mamm meaning ‘a breastshaped hill’ and ceaster – ‘a fortified city’. Most of our current city, town and village names were given to them by our most ancient ancestors. Tre in a place name denotes a homestead or hamlet and was usually paired with the name of the person who owned it, so Tregare in Wales means ‘Gare’s home’. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given their proximity across the Bristol Channel, this prefix is seen even more widely in Cornwall. Another common Cornish prefix is penn which is a ‘headland’. Penzance is a conjugation of penn and sans which together mean ‘holy headland’. Like tre, a town or village name ending in by is Old Norse for ‘homestead’. The Vikings are also responsible for place names that begin or end with holm. In Old Norse, this meant ‘island’ and usually referred to a settlement surrounded by marsh or water. Water, especially rivers, features widely in place name origins. For example, Luton is derived from ‘Lea’ after the river that flows through it and tun which is Anglo-Saxon for a large farm or settlement

(which probably later evolved into our modern word ‘town’). Another common place name inclusion is ‘ham’. Hamm was Anglo-Saxon for ‘small village’ and is almost certainly the origin of the word ‘hamlet’. Mor(e) or Mer referred to a ‘lake’ in Old English (mer also means ‘sea’ in French). You can find variations of it in town names such as Cromer and Swanmore. Numerous places have the word bury in them. This did not refer to a burial plot as it might sound but is the Old English word for a large estate, known by the Anglo-Saxons as a burh. The root has also given rise to towns with ‘borough’ and ‘burgh’ in them. Stead or sted comes from the Anglo-Saxon word stede for ‘place’ (hence the word ‘homestead’ means ‘place of home’.) Featured in the town names of Stow, Stowmarket and Stow on the Wold (from wald or weald being the Old English for ‘forest’), a stow was somewhere holy. Less obviously, it also gave Bristol its name as the town was originally called ‘Brigg’s Stow’ meaning ‘the holy place by the bridge’. The suffix ley signifies a forest clearing and there are many villages and towns in the UK ending in -ley or -ly that date from a time when our island was covered in woodland. The Viking word was thwaite, seen particularly in the north today. One interesting suffix is wick or wich. This was the Anglo-Saxon noun for ‘produce’ and was bestowed on a farm with a prefix that told you what it produced. So, for example, Greenwich is said to have originally been an arable farm some

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distance from London, Woolwich, a sheep farm, while Chiswick would have been a dairy farm (chis being ‘cheese’). Other Old English words which feature in place names are cott or cote for ‘small house’ (hence our word ‘cottage’), clopp meaning ‘small hill’, combe which referred to ‘a valley’, holt for ‘a wood’, and den which was a pasture, usually for livestock like pigs (not to be confused with the suffix don which comes from the word dun meaning ‘hill’.) Many of our county names also have ancient origins. For example, ‘Essex’ was the place where the East-Saxons settled (‘East Sax’), ‘Sussex’ the South-Saxons, and Middlesex, which has now been absorbed into Greater London, was where the Middle-Saxons lived. East Anglia was also named from the tribe that once inhabited it, the Angles. Although today it is difficult to still see their origins, deciphering old place names can give us the strongest clue as to how the landscape must have once looked. Unit 2 Chancerygate Business Centre Red Lion Road, Surbiton KT6 7RA

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1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the onions and fry for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened and golden, adding the garlic after 5 minutes. 2. Stir in the spices and cook for 1-2 minutes until fragrant then add the tomatoes, puree and sugar. Simmer gently for 15-20 minutes until the sauce has thickened, stirring occasionally. 3. Stir in the chickpeas and simmer for a further 10 minutes. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Serve with cooked long grain rice and garnished with the parsley. TIP Stir a handful of baby spinach leaves in to the stew just before the end of cooking time, if liked.

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Parkin’ some thoughts Rainbows by Nick Hazell It’s raining. Again. I’m sat here staring out of the window. It overlooks Queen’s Square in the centre of London, one of those quaint little grass squares surrounded by Georgian houses that you find about town. There is a small dog chasing a squirrel across the greenery pursued by its owner and leaving Pret carrying pedestrians in its wake. I’m also in a slightly contemplative mood. Brain surgery has that effect on a chap don’t you know. Three days ago, I had deep brain stimulation. DBS is the main type of surgery used to treat Parkinson’s when the medication just isn’t doing the job. The stuff I take works for about half an hour in the morning then takes the rest of the day off. So thanks to the feckless efforts of my medicinal workforce the Neuro-Profs suggested this as the only way forward. Essentially it involves a sort of brain pacemaker being placed under the skin which is connected by fine wires to specific parts of the brain. The idea is then that the device delivers high frequency stimulation to the affected parts. If it works, it can hugely improve some of the symptoms. If it doesn’t, I’ll just be a walking interference with the airspace above New Malden. Despite Anna’s protestations that her prodigious efforts to watch Greys Anatomy should qualify her to conduct the necessary procedure on the kitchen table with some of our blunt knives, I decided that the National Hospital for Neurosurgery and Neuroscience is a better and somewhat more mainstream option. Not put off by the Surgeon’s meaty hands, I survived the surgery and am now waiting to see whether this new addition to the Hazell physique will give rise to the potential benefits all of which seem seem wonderful or be another aimless wander up a dark, dank and somewhat pointless alley to nowhere.

flash his guests over the Christmas turkey. So far, the only sign of out of character behaviour has been in response to the constantly rude, complaining, farting, button pressing occupant of bed 12 who insists on speaking to his extended Cypriot family on speaker phone at 3am each morning. I suddenly heard myself shouting “SHUT THE **** UP YOU *******FAT, FLATULENT OLD GIT. Oh, did I just say that out loud.” Fortunately, despite the potentially pleasing aliteration and according to my learned friend in bed 9, a QC with a tumour up his nose, only the last eight of these words made it into circulation. Still, I’ll just be relieved when they’ve turned on the equipment and all will become clear. I’m not asking much. I’d just like to be able to take the mutt for a stroll or walk down the street without performing a demented Riverdance. Being in this mess for so long though it’s hard to think of life being different. I suppose I need to be positive and hope for the best. I need to trust that the experts know their stuff, perhaps listen to more country and western, lock away the valuables and remember to move the turkey. After all, as Dolly Parton once said, “I guess if you want the rainbow you’ve got to put up with the raIn.”

Leaving aside potential death, pain, confusion and flat batteries, the side effect that most got my attention was the risk of a change in personality. Some might think I could do with that but I’ve only just got used to not being a work obsessed arse. That and its consequences have been the only positives of having this disease. I don’t want some implant that makes me a Hank Williams devotee inclined to gamble away the family silver and To advertise email jenny@maldenmedia.co.uk or call 020 8336 2915

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background. Several of my photos didn’t have that gap – but this one does – phew! A year ago, I was visiting my friends in South Africa – one of my favourite countries and some of my favourite people. This time, unlike my usual visits, I didn’t spend time in one of the game parks, but instead did a 5- or 6-day trip along part of the Garden Route. I went with the son of my great friends Mark and Jeni; Grant is a brilliant guy – who trains pilots for a living – and lives in Port Alfred quite close to Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. I flew to Johannesburg, and then on to Port Elizabeth where he picked me up. We spent a very happy few hours at the beach before going off to our Uber for the night. The following day we went down the coast to a town called Knysna where we stayed for a couple of nights. A very pretty little place – and the marina had a huge range of tourist shops and restaurants. Also, a stunning view across the bay. One evening, after we’d had a good meal we walked around the shore and the marina. The sun was going down and I saw this houseboat sitting on its own with the opposite side of the bay in darkness behind it; and a gorgeous sunset over the hills. One of the things that photographers like to achieve in their pictures is ‘separation’. If you have more than one thing in the picture, it really helps to make sure that the objects (may be people of course) are separated from each other. Not necessarily by much, but it seems that a small amount of space between things helps to keep the photo looking less cluttered. So, in this photo, it was important to have a small space between the roof of the houseboat and the shoreline of the hills in the

We drove along the Garden Route (rather confusingly, this is not about gardens in the British sense, but more about the land and the forests) and at one point I saw this mountain top in the distance. I was struck by the parade of trees along the top – made me think of Mao Tse Tung’s Long March in China in 1948/9 when he was on the way to taking over the country from the warlords who ruled over it. These trees seemed to be marching along the ridge – with some lagging in the rear. I thought that a picture that showed just this might be good – and indeed when I got back to my Photoshop, it certainly was. It is a stark image, and the conversion to black and white helps to emphasise that aspect; there is a lot of sky above, which I think is necessary to balance the heavy cliffs of the mountain. The weather wasn’t great – and that is apparent from the grey look of the image. I also did a bit of lightening up of the cliff so that there was some detail visible there. All these edits make the picture stand out more, but none of them have messed with the key point of a line of trees marching across a mountain top. We finished up in Port Alfred after a few days, and one morning we went down to the sea to clamber over sand dunes. I have to say that I found it pretty exhausting – a long walk down to the sea from where we parked the car, along a fairly overgrown path, and then the dunes were quite hard to climb around and over. But it was well worth it: the views and the colours were really lovely. In this photo, I have only made few changes to the original – the colours were as you see it here, and the

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coastal cliffs in the background were as you see them. I guess the sea mist was making everything slightly vague in the distance. The picture looks almost as if David Hockney had painted it; it is very much his style with a dreamlike feel to it. His famous painting – The Big Splash – has a lot of the same dreaminess in it (that sounds like he was imitating me! Very far from it, I was consciously trying to imitate him). There’s an awful lot of nothingness in my photo – the expanse of sand, the sky up on the left – but that only makes it more complete in my view. There is a lot of benefit for an aspiring photographer to spend time looking at paintings, to see how the painter has expressed themselves and how they manage to make their work interesting to look at. I spend a lot of time going around art galleries partly to learn from the masters but also to enjoy what I see.

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