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Editor’s letter Articles

I’m sitting writing this in glorious weather and thinking how lovely New Malden looks in the sunshine (OK, I know everywhere does – but we’re a bit biased, aren’t we!). I’m not even going to look at the long term forecast and will happily assume that the sunshine is here to stay for our action-packed month of July, particularly after our soggy start to the Summer.

This month’s issue of the Village Voice is packed full of details of forthcoming events during Malden Fortnight – which will be great fun, come rain or shine! All the favourites are back on the programme from the fabulous dog show and annual Parade to Beverley Park’s Funday Sunday (in aid of The Lunchbowl Newtwork), concerts, cream teas, choral recitals, craft fair flower shows, food festivals and much more!

As ever, please do get involved and support this wonderful celebration of our community.

After all, 2012 is being dubbed the “Summer of Celebration” (maybe something to do with that big sporting competition also taking place in July and August just a few miles away in Stratford!!) so let’s join the party and have a ball in New Malden!

7 Malden Fortnight 2012 8 Moving On by Carl Simms 13 History by Robin Gill 17 Square Dancing 18 Events in Kingston 21 Recipe Cherry Pots with Fluffy Meringue Tops 22 View from the City Justin Urquhart Stewart 24 Jubilee party in Woodside Road 26 Richard Challoner School – Ten Years On 28 Funday Sunday 38 Maldens and Coombe Heritage Group 36 Clubs - Young KVODS 44 Scouting in New Malden 47 Charities Green Pastures 48 Gardening Dry weather 57 Making the most of a Staycation 46 Lunchbowl Campfire 58 Safer Neighbourhood Information 60 Dad’s Diary

Local Information 42 What’s On 50 Clubs 52 Toddler groups 62 Business Index

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Malden Fortnight 2012

Over the next couple of months, London and Kingston upon Thames will be playing starring roles in the London 2012 Olympic Games, so it was only right that we chose that as the theme for The Malden Fortnight this year.

Many of us will be involved in different aspects of the Games whether as a spectator at the games or on television, as an organiser or assistant at some level, or even as a purchaser of memorabilia.

We should be proud that we can celebrate this momentous event within our village.

This year we have some new sponsors and I would like to thank them along with our other sponsors, clubs, societies, organisations and individuals who have contributed their time, effort and money to help bring about our celebration of New Malden.

Peter Findlater Chairman, The Malden Fortnight Committee

Saturday 30th June

Camera Club Exhibition starts 28th June Where: Methodist Church This is the highlight of the year for Camera Club members who have submitted their best work for independent judging before display in the exhibition.

Club members will be on hand to answer any questions that visitors may have on aspects of photography. www.maldencameraclub.org.uk

Grand Parade

2pm New Malden High Street This is one of the busiest days of the year in New Malden High Street and promises to pull in the crowds.The theme of this year’s parade is sport.

Let’s hope we get weather like we’ve had in the past couple of years. See you there! The parade comes up the High Street at around 2pm from the Christ Church car park, goes around the Fountain Roundabout and then back down again.

Charity Cream Tea

2.30pm-5.30pm Scout Hall Tadworth Avenue There'll be children's activities as well so please come along and help them to raise funds - a donation will also be given to Lunchbowl who are sharing their expertise in running this great annual event.

Church Garden Party and Cream Tea 3.00pm, on the lawns at New Malden United Reformed Church, open to everyone.

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Spirited Arts Exhibition (starts 23rd June until 2nd July) Where: Methodist Church Sprited Arts is a powerful exhibition of 16 works of art by young people aged 14-18. The artwork comes with an explanation alongside and explores the question of 'Where is God?'

Wednesday 4th July

The Mikado 7.30pm Methodist Church

Spurred on by the success of Iolanthe and Patience the Malden Centre choral workshop will stage another Gilbert and Sullivan comedy operetta as part of the Malden Fortnight.

This year the performance will be the Mikado.

Tickets are priced at £6 each and will be available from the Malden Centre. Be sure to get your tickets early as there will only be one chance to see the show.

Friday 6th July

Flower Festival Methodist Church until 8th July Quiz Night 8pm Malden Wanderers

Back by popular demand! ~ Yes, the Big Quiz is back!First question at 8pm Teams of 8 (we can help make up teams) £12.50 per person to include half time refreshments Bar open - Is it bigger and better than ever?

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The only way to find out is to be there! Book your place early!A major Fundraising Event ~ Please give us your support and reply to: Mrs. Bobby Child 07946 532846 Juniper Hill Blues 7.30pm Royal Oak The Juniper Hill Blues Band and Friends will be getting together again for the 2012 Malden Fortnight Festival.

Tickets £8.00 with concessions.

All proceeds to the Neil Desai Foundation www.neildesai.org For information: gll@juniperhillblues.co.uk

Saturday 7th July

Craft Fair all day New Malden High Street

Up to 100 stalls will line each side of New Malden High Street. Come and enjoy this great day.

Day of Entertainment 11am St Georges Square

Unilet Expo 12 BBQ 10-5pm Unilet

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Light lunches 12pm-2pm and Cream Teas 2pm-4pm Methodist Church

Horticultural Society Summer Show

Malden Centre The Malden and Coombe Horticultural Society summer fruit, flower and vegetable show is to be held on Saturday 7th July 2012 and open to the public at 2.00pm until 4.30pm admission free.

Sunday 8th July

Funday Sunday in aid of Lunchbowl Network

12-4pm Beverley Park.

A great day of fun for all the family at Beverley Park, New Malden! Register now for a race or enter your team for the tug of war tournament and come along and support your friends and family! BBQ, Indian Food, Pimms Tent, Hot and Cold Drinks.

Come along for lunch. For info email heidi.gomes@ tesco.net or see the Malden Fortnight website for full programme.

Wednesday 11th July

Cancer Research Fashion Show

Sunday 15th July New Malden Dog Show

1pm Blagdon Park If you think that your dog is the greatest, come along to the Malden Fortnight Fun Dog Show in Blagdon Road Park (behind the Malden Centre).

Booking-in is from 1 p.m. and judging starts at 2 p.m. There are ten classes, including dog with the waggiest tail, dog most like its owner, best condition coat, best geriatric and the best dog in fancy dress.

You also have a chance to enter the owner and dog egg & spoon race, which is more difficult than you would expect. Dogs don’t need a pedigree, but they must be over 6 months old and be good with other dogs and people.

Come along with or without your dog. It’s a great afternoon out for everyone and who knows, you may be taking home the cup to say that you own – The Best Dog in New Malden.

Sports Club Open Day 2-4pm New Malden Tennis, Squash & Badminton Club, Somerset Close KT3 5RG There’s something for all the family, and it’s FREE! Try tennis, squash, racketball, badminton, or the gym. BBQ & drinks available Special offers for new members joining on the day.

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7.30pm Methodist Church £5 entry which will all go to Cancer Research Refreshments will be served.

Friday 13th July

Juniper Hill Blues 7.30pm Malden Wanderers Tickets £8.00 with concessions.

All proceeds to the Neil Desai Foundation www.neildesai.org/ For information: gll@juniperhillblues.co.u

Saturday 14th July

Big Band Night 8pm Methodist Church

This is a fantastic 17 piece orchestra comprising of a number of well known musicians including Ronnie Hughes and Bill Geldart originally with the Ted Heath Band, and Sheila Tracy who performed with the Ivy Benson Band and who now works for the B.B.C. Big Band as well as performing on a regular basis with Dave Marrion.

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Moving on

Local author Carl Sims reviews his time in New Malden I’m in a mood of reflection. This started with me viewing my shed, I know that sounds odd but it’s a fine shed, and quite expensive when purchased. Seven years ago my eldest daughter and I travelled to Ripley to buy it. It’s fair to say, I don’t move fast on buying things unless I get the nod from her. I liked quite a few, not least a Wendy House, but she reminded me all my daughters were grown-up, or in the process of doing so. The whole experience was enjoyable and we were both a little proud when the men came to erect it. She and I spent a great deal of time standing within, chatting over cups of tea. Now, I find myself reminiscing about that time…

Regular readers may know I moved to New Malden some thirty years ago. However, before being married, my then wife and I lived in Wimbledon. We couldn’t afford anything in SW19 – not even a share in a bus shelter. My mother, obviously keen I should be as far away as possible, noticed on a trip to a friend in Bexley, there was a house in Kent we might afford.

Subsequently we pointed our car eastward to a place called Rainham and bought our first house. Ok, like most I say ‘bought’ but in truth you only ever buy after 25 years. It seems madness now but we ‘bought’ a threebedroom semi with gardens plus garage for £12,000!

For two months we travelled to and fro patiently decorating, and it’s a funny thing, the smell of new paint still reminds me of that lovely house.

We made close friends with a couple, who after a few years, packed up and moved – to New Malden.

We followed. Strange isn’t it? They could have moved to Worcester Park, Motspur Park, Raynes Park or any other park you care to mention and we most likely would have followed. But no. They chose New Malden and I’m pleased they did.

Although after a few years, they again moved on but I’m still here. And talking of moving on, I’m in the process of doing the same. It’s a wrench.

I have four children - three were born here; Kingston hospital. All four went to school in New Malden. They have grown, made friends, had parties and generally drove me mad. But they too have moved on.

I had neighbours who said they would never leave – like friends round the corner – who finally relocated to Godalming, or another couple who went to Bournemouth. But where do I go? “Anywhere you like and the sooner the better” I hear you say. But it’s a difficult choice. Although ‘choice’ is when you can choose but I haven’t chosen anywhere. That’s the trouble with New Malden – it tends to wind its self into your very being. I don’t think you realise this until the ‘For Sale’ goes up.

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But up it went.Viewers viewed and someone had the audacity to make an offer – which I accepted. Now this was getting real. I was actually leaving!

That was a few months ago and numerous questions from solicitors are being answered through gritted teeth.

Nonetheless, the outcome is written: people who I don’t know, have never met, will sleep in my bedroom, bathe in my bath, lounge in my garden and in a blink of time will consider this place, my place, to be their own home.

Odd. Now I need to find somewhere to live – or rather, somewhere different to live. But I have a thought: what do you think my chances are in the shed…?

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Getting there (in a roundabout way)

by Robin Gill How many people can describe the Malden Roundabout at the Fountain? What is there actually on the island in the middle?

Of course there is the fountain itself erected in 1982 thanks to the New Malden Branch Of The Rotary Club (this was to replace the original fountain which stood nearby, and was demolished in an accident in June 1932 (see Fountain Of Youth in Village Voice May 2010). But, what else is there upon this Malden icon (answers at the end of this article).

Quiet byways Looking at a map of the area from the early 1860s, there was no Presburg Road, and no Burlington Road, just a slightly widened turning off the road from (Old) Malden to Coombe with a guide post to tell you, that was the way to Kingston. Where the Norbiton Park Hotel was to stand; there was a clay pit in a field set aside for brick making. The Hotel was built around 1867, and has stood on the same

site ever since.

By 1897, houses had been built the length of Malden Road (High Street) on one side of the road from the railway line to Kingston Road; the drinking fountain had been erected in the middle of the junction (1894), between the hotel and Kingston Road. Burlington Road had been built upon (earliest houses Wakefield Terrace 1873), and Presburg Road, under construction, had one house in it (probably the coach house for “Vernham House” the doctors premises in Kingston Road (now Pearson Maddin). The police station had been built on the corner of Burlington and Malden Roads in 1891.

Digging the scene As mentioned in the Village Voice (October 2010) “The Coming Of The Land Gondoliers” the trams transformed the junction at Malden from a quiet turning to a noisy and reasonably busy intersection. Work had started at the Malden end of the route in April 1905 in front of a large crowd, and after the first piece of ground had been broken in Kingston Road by the Mayor Of Kingston (HC Minnitt), about 100 men started work building the route towards Kingston, but not one man was a local man, causing the council to write to the construction company with little effect. The making up of the route at the junction also left the normally tidy Malden Road in a “disgraceful state” between Kingston Road and Burlington Road. Such a state that some children had found it impossible to get to their schools, and another letter had to be written to the company. The line was completed and opened in May 1906. For the first few months the trams terminated at the Norbiton Park Hotel (Fountain) as Burlington Road had to be widened to accommodate the 4 foot 8½ inch gauge, but April 1907 saw the route to Raynes Park station complete.

A large house (Derby Lodge) on the corner of Malden Road and Kingston Road had to be demolished to enable the road to be widened to accommodate the terminus and change around of the trams. Here, I learnt from June Sampson (SC 16/04/2008) Harold Victor Bauer was born on 28th April 1873. Harold became a world renowned pianist, and took up residency in the United States in the early 1900s where he died in 1951. The family did not stay long at Derby Lodge as Harold’s sister Winifred was born in late 1874 in the new family home in Hampstead. The corners of Kingston and Burlington Roads also had to be “smoothed out” to allow the passage of the tram rails and overhead wiring.

Trolley buses (routes 604 & 605) replaced the trams in September 1931 but still operated the same route from

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Kingston to Wimbledon travelling down Kingston Road and Burlington Road through the Malden area, until they in turn were replaced by motor buses in May 1962 (Route 131).

War damage and development Malden suffered the scourge of the V1 flying bombs (doodlebugs) in 1944 when 22 fell and exploded within the borough. From 18th June over a period of 80 days over 2500 citizens were affected by these raids, causing some evacuations to take place. In total 44 doodlebugs passed through the region, of which half fell and exploded on impact. Eleven people from Malden and Coombe died, and sadly the last civilian to be killed by enemy action in the war, was a 73 year old widow Kate Allflatt who was living at 1 Kingston Road (built at the turn of the century) near to the junction when it was hit by a flying bomb on 22nd August 1944.

The damaged and now derelict property was still standing ten years later together with other ruined properties caught in the same blast. Such properties were Derby Villas, which had stood in Malden Road since the late 1860s.

By 1955 the houses was very dilapidated with ivy growing all over, and one side of the properties was covered with a large advertising hoarding. The council had ambitious plans for the area. Most of the damaged properties in Kingston Road had been removed, and pre-fabs built in their place

(sites in Balgowan Close and Charnwood Close).

These were built just after the war to help with the acute accommodation problem locally. More permanent solutions were found when eight 2 bedroom bungalows were built in Balgowan Close in 1959/60, and at the same time planning was granted for the erection of maisonettes, flats, and bungalows in Charnwood Close (Norton and Martin House).

More ambitious plans were mooted in the mid 1950s with proposals for shops to replace the houses in Kingston Road as far as Rodney Road with a cinema in the site of Balgowan Close. It was rumoured that a branch of Burtons the tailors would be occupying the site at the corner of Malden and Kingston Road, but for some reason the company did not take up the premises, and it became an electrical showroom operated by Ketts (Pricketts) Ltd The other schemes never came to fruition as the demand for residential properties outstripped those for retail.

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Road and turning into Burlington Road were not always aware of traffic moving along Malden Road. With the presence of trams and then trolley buses they should have had right of way, but Malden Road had been there longer, and was a straight road. A census carried out in 1937 showed a maximum of 915 vehicles per hour passing through the junction between 2pm and 3pm, and this had risen in 1955 to 1556 vehicles per hour between 5.30pm and 6.30pm. There was a “slow” sign on the police station side of Malden Road, but a similar sign on the Worcester Park side had been removed.

In December 1952 Edith Willbourn, the wife of a retired policeman from the New Malden station was killed when her bicycle was in collision with a car at the junction. The public had previously demanded that traffic lights be placed there to control vehicles. The motorist involved stated that he had “looked both ways before entering the road crossing” and saw no one approaching. After an appeal for witnesses over the BBC, a verdict of accidental death was recorded as nobody had seen the accident.

Something had to be done, and the council received a verbal communication from the Ministry Of Transport in July 1953 that, provided work was started before the

beginning of November a roundabout or traffic lights could be erected at the intersection. Land had to be compulsory purchased in Malden, Kingston, and Burlington Roads, but not only were the local council involved, and the Ministry, but also the Surrey County Council. There were so many negotiations to undertake and permissions to be obtained, that work was unable to start by the desired date, and the Ministry hesitated in whether they would give grant assistance.

The Ministry contacted the council again at the beginning of 1954 asking that if funds were available could the scheme still be carried out. A positive response was given, and details of the project for a roundabout were sent to the Ministry, who in turn sent back a raft of amendments they wanted to see. All bar one of these were rejected by the council, but then the Engineer for the County Council suggested that traffic lights would be a better (and cheaper) option. Again the council had to write back stating that this preference had been discussed and rejected months earlier.

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1 & 3 Kingston Road were cleared, and the building of the roundabout started on 25th April 1955 and completed in six months. The construction also involved the re-routing of the overhead trolleybus wires and the smoothing of the corners of the junction. Street lighting had to be replaced at a cost of £400, and the new wiring for the buses cost £4750. The cost of the roundabout itself was £23,500, and was to be 112 feet in diameter planted with shrubs, similar to the roundabout nearby on the Kingston By Pass. Pedestrian crossings in Burlington, Kingston, and Malden Roads were incorporated with island refuges, and guard rails.

Mr Lewis of Wimbledon suggested a fountain on the roundabout regulated by a time switch, and a cut-out in high winds by a vane on top of the police station.

The roundabout area has more or less stayed the same ever since, apart from the zebra crossings being replaced by pelican crossings with traffic lights. Now the council has set up a “strategic working party” to look into the locality including the roundabout.

The future?

What do you think should be on the roundabout?

The fountain is cracked, and has not operated for about 18 months. Would you like to see it replaced, and by what? Maybe you think the roundabout should be purely functionary, and anything else would be a distraction to drivers. Contact Hannah Rees the neighbourhood manager at Kingston Council hannah.rees@rbk.kingston.gov.uk or, at Kingston Guildhall, High Street, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1EU with your ideas.

Answers: As well as the fountain, there are six lampposts (conveniently numbered 1-6), two trees (one willow plus another), a brick container (which I assume contains the pump for the fountain), four directional arrows (one which has a redundant sign for Old Dairy Gate [Firman Close]), a circular flower bed with details of which organisation has sponsored the planting at the time, and notices from the Rotary Club relating to their crocus appeal to eradicate polio.

Pictures 1) Crossing before the First World War 2) Junction just before the building of the roundabout.

3)Trolley Bus at the roundabout

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Kingston riverside - the place to be this summer Kingston is the place to be this summer for entertainment on and off the water Be sure to get yourself a good spot along the riverside on the weekend of July 7 -8 as hundreds of boats from national and local clubs compete in the Kingston Regatta.

The rowing regatta has run for more than 150 years with previous competitors going on to win gold at the Olympics.

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Now reaching a figure of £250 million, this is still relatively minor in its impact - but in an environment of financial constriction, its impact may well be greater than some expect.

So far, relatively few have heard of the ‘peer to peer’ facilities that are just starting to burgeon into a more popular domain.

The concept is simple, as all the best ideas usually are. It is to use the internet as a matching facility between willing depositors and lenders and willing borrowers. Such an idea is hardly new, as in the past we have seen the growth and application of mutuals and co-operatives as a means of local financing but unlike our continental colleagues, these have never really broken through in any scale and size to the consumer market. I suppose to an extent this is because there was no need for such a system in earlier times, with higher interest

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rates, more competition, better returns elsewhere and credit that was as easily available as water.

Now we are in a new world, where the ‘new normal’ is a very different beastie, with suppressed interest rates (thanks to Quantitative Easing and money printing), low money supply due to bank risk aversion and capital constraints, together with erratic stock markets that react more to political ineptitudes and indecision than corporate strength, results and profits. Not actually a very pleasant situation, all told.

So now we are in a position where smaller companies are desperate for more liquidity, but of course at the right price and margin. However, we are also in the position where we want to encourage more entrepreneurship and dynamism in the economy, and yet this is the very moment when such funds seem to be drying up. If we set up over 400,000 new businesses a year in the UK, then you would think that this should be a key target for the politicians to try and address.

Additionally, we should also consider the other side - we all know that it has been the much oppressed depositors that have suffered most under this low interest rate era (especially as there are far more savers than borrowers). Many older folk have seen their income decimated as interest rates have plummeted to levels often such that they are losing real value below the rate of inflation.

Thus a mechanism where better deposit rates can be achieved (and at various rates according to the levels of risk that a depositor finds acceptable), has to be a valuable alternative.

However, there are of course still some significant risks. Firstly, these operations are as yet unregulated, so the depositor has little recall or rights and is certainly not covered by the £85,000 bank deposit guarantee. This is an area that should be addressed and I see no reason why they should not be brought under the ambit of the regulator; this in turn can only serve to encourage further consumer confidence and consequently greater participation.

This to me is an attractive concept, but one that I believe can and should be taken much further. Why could we not have regional and local facilities whereby local depositors and investors could be investing and supporting local businesses directly? In effect, we could be recreating the same facilities as the old regional stock exchanges that formed such a vital financing need for industry years ago. I am sure some will recall that in 1945 we had 45 stock exchanges around the UK. Now whilst we don’t need to recreate such antique structures again, we can redevelop the concept into a modern facility.

Around the country I have found quite a number of very vibrant entrepreneurial groups, and growing numbers of business angels. These are often formed by either more sophisticated individuals or previously successful business people, therefore a service which is simple and straightforward and accessible for the smaller investor and depositor could well be a very attractive alternative. A simpler method of funneling investment to where it is needed to stimulate growth has to be beneficial to all and sundry.

Given the current situation with the structure of our national finances, I am surprised that the government has not been addressing these initiatives more directly, and acting to encourage further development. This doesn’t need to involve any financing but rather acting to foster the right environment and regulation. In fact, how refreshing it would be if a bank could consider redesigning part of its business model to adopt such a structure. A new ‘3i’ (not the private equity company) in my view is needed - Imagination, Initiative and Invention, where depositors can get a better return and borrowers get more choice - not just nationally but also regionally and locally.

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Royal Washout Fails to Dampen Jubilee Spirits A quick word to all those who decided to host their Jubilee street parties on Saturday and Monday rather than on the day itself - Good on you! We weren't jealous. Nope. Not a bit. Ploughing on despite having your plans for a once-in-a-lifetime experience scuppered by a deluge from the heavens is probably about as British as you can get, so by my reckoning that means we had the more authentic experience. Totally.

There was something perversely enjoyable about huddling beneath a flimsy gazebo in the middle of Woodside Road on Sunday afternoon, trying to shelter from the torrential downpour while gloomily nursing hot mugs of tea. Union Jack flags dangled limply from trees and fences all along the road, while the Queen's accession speech played on a nearby amp. And yet despite this - perhaps it would even be fair to say as a direct result of this - the occasion was imbued with a definite sense of community spirit. Being compelled to cluster together for warmth and dryness forced us to get to know people we'd only ever met in passing despite living in the same road for years.

Revellers were later joined by residents from

neighbouring Burberry Close, Carlton Road and Selborne Road as the weather began to pick up.Various activities carried on throughout the evening, including table tennis, chalk drawing (which was enthusiastically seized upon by the younger residents, even when it began to intermittently pour again) and several fiendishly difficult jubilee-themed quizzes, as well as music provided by local indie musician Malory Torr.

A history board assembled by Peter and Betty Hunt displaying pictures from the Golden Jubilee summed up the essence of the event best; despite the grand significance of the Jubilee in the eyes of the media and

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the wider world, for us, and I'm sure for everyone who held street parties over the weekend, the occasion was first and foremost about the community coming together and sharing in its local identity. The sheer number of parties which took place across New Malden, such as the festivities in Beverley Park, are testament to this.

To watch the celebrations on television and feel thoroughly British is all very well, but to connect with your neighbours and feel part of a wider, yet still very much local, community is a genuinely uplifting experience. At an impromptu breakfast fry-up next morning this sentiment was very much evident as we folded up the bunting and eagerly discussed the possibility of organising a regular, annual get-together.

And if that falls through, well... only another ten years to our gracious Majesty's Platinum Jubilee. She can hang on that long, right?

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Richard Challoner School – Ten Years On Time goes so quickly in a school! It is difficult to believe that at the end of this academic year, I will have been a teacher at Richard Challoner for ten years. I shouldn’t be surprised as time always goes faster when you are busy and having fun.

From the first day, walking in as a nervous PGCE student, the sense of a community happily and diligently going about its business, has pervaded my understanding of Challoner. Busy because of the constant stream of events – sports fixtures, music concerts, drama productions, art exhibitions, trips and fundraising ventures – to name but a few. Also busy because of the incredible changes the school has undergone in the last ten years.

There have been at least four major building projects, as well as countless interior remodelling projects that have transformed the school from a rather dated, illresourced patch work of buildings, to a state-of-the-art school ready to provide cutting edge education.

Strong community feel Despite its physical transformation, the school retains its sense of community. A community where teachers and pupils respect one another and can often be seen having fun together. Teachers generally choose to stay

at Challoner and often send their own sons here. This stability is underlined by the fact that the school has only had three head teachers in its 53 year history.

Soon after arriving at Challoner, a senior member of staff said to me, “I never wake up thinking ‘oh no – work today’. I always know I’m going to have a laugh and to enjoy my day.” I didn’t really think he was being totally honest, but ten years on I can truthfully say I still wake up looking forward to the day ahead. It really is a unique and special place.

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Exciting times Over the last three years we have challenged ourselves to build an outstanding Sixth Form. We have seen numbers on roll increase dramatically (there are five applicants for every one place) and academic achievements consistently improve. Last year, our top achieving student gained 5 A* grades at A-level.

The next stage of our development starts this year at our Sixth Form Open Evening on Wednesday 3rd October when we will be opening our doors for girls to enrol in our Sixth Form for the first time.

As well as this, we are opening a unique post-16 Cricket Academy with specialist cricket coaching built into the timetable.

Despite these changes, we haven’t lost sight of our tradition and we keep a firm grip on our Christian values, whilst seeking to embrace innovation and inspiration. The last ten years have been great, but I know the next ten years will be even better as the school goes from strength to strength.

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Funday Sunday On Sunday,8th July it will be time for the 2nd annual Funday in Beverley Park from 12-4pm as part of the Malden Fortnight and it promises to be a Funday for all the family!

The day begins at 12, do come along and enjoy lunch in the park with a BBQ, Indian food, Korean snacks and delicious homemade cakes on offer as well as a Pimms and Beer Tent , tea and coffee, ice creams and more, while you decide what races to take part in.

All races cost 50p to enter and can be done on the day and all monies taken go directly to Lunchbowl for the feeding and caring of their 450 orphans in the Kibera Slum in Kenya; every 33p feeds a child.

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Last year, we had a wonderful day raising almost £3000, and it would be wonderful to match this. Do come along and take part in a range of great races, enjoy a relaxing drink, lunch and afternoon tea, enjoy the wonderful atmosphere at this local community event and help to feed and care for these children who desperately need your help.

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Social Eyes My visually impaired group called Social Eyes, members of K..A.B. won Garson Farm scarecrow competition 2012 They designed it and composed a poem for it to wear.

A Busy Lizzy craft tutor worked with the group and we used alot of recycled materials to create a successful Octopus.

The group will now enjoy a trip to Garson Farm, Esher and no doubt enjoy some strawberries from the PYO fields on the way.

We hope Octopussy will win a prize We are a group called Social Eyes Who meet for craft and cups of tea Which meet for craft and cups of tea Which we enjoy though cannot see We’ve entered the contest quite a lot And this year we’ve given our very best shot

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Clubs - Young KVODS Young KVODS is an award winning amateur youth musical theatre company based in Kingston for young people aged 7 to 16 years. The aim of the group is to give children in the local area an opportunity to perform a full scale musical in a purpose built theatre once a year. They already have a number of members from the New Malden area.

In 2008 Young KVODS performed their first musical Guys & Dolls Jr with a cast of 35 children. Just a year later they were chosen to take part in the Leatherhead Drama Festival and the Woking Drama Festival. Members of the group aged 12 & over performed the premiere of Rags to Riches. This play was adapted from the book of the same name by the author Richard Roberts especially for the group.

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from the audience& adjudicators alike. At Woking they were not only asked to perform again at the Awards evening but the group also won best youth play and Janice Smith, the wardrobe mistress, won the adjudicator's award for her wonderful costumes.

In the same year the main group also performed Disco Inferno; with a cast of nearly 50 children and earned a nomination for a NODA Youngstars award.

As the group won the Woking Festival they were chosen to take part in the NDFA All Winners Festival in 2010, an incredible honour. They were thrilled when the group won this festival, and in turn were crowned best youth group in the UK The main part of the group went on to perform Annie Jr in 2010 which welcomed lots of new members to the company as well as two professional stunt dogs playing the part of Sandy! In the same year they took part in a charity concert at the 02 arena.

So now the group are in their 5th anniversary year and in January members performed in Sunday Night Live at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, home to Phantom of the Opera.

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From 19th to 21st July will be performing Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Performing Arts Centre, Kingston Grammar School. Tickets cost £15 adults &£12.50 concessions and can be booked on 07982 046210 or youthboxoffice@kvods.com. A special group offer for 10 tickets booked for the Thursday or Saturday matinee is available where tickets are only £10 each!! They are also due to perform as part of Malden Fortnight’s Day of Entertainment on 7th July in St Georges Square.

If you have a budding musical theatre star and would like to know more about how to join in the fun then please contact membership@kvods.com. The group meet on Monday & Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8pm and will soon be taking new membership enquiries for their 2013 projects.

We would love to have YOU involved!!

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Recollections of Maldens and Coombe ‘The way things were’ Can you please help us by providing your recollections, memories, stories and anecdotes of Old Malden, New Malden and Coombe?

Have you any photos or even home movies which show the way things were?

please contact: Maldens and Coombe Heritage Group C/O Mary Clarke 135c South Lane New Malden KT3 5HQ.

The newly-formed “Maldens and Coombe Heritage Group” is set on collating local history that does not appear in any history book and which solely remains in the memories of the people who lived here.

The memories can be as simple as a one-line memory of a street, a building, shopkeeper, a school teacher, the way things were, anything you wish to share!

It can be a paragraph recalling some aspect of the village, a special day perhaps, fields of corn, the pottery, the Kingston bypass, absolutely anything.

Local history is, what it says, ‘local’ and your memories are OUR history and without your help present and future generations will have no reference, no source and the history will be lost forever.

Your memories, photos, etc. (if you are willing to share them) are like pages of a history book that have been separated and have blown, by the wind of change and ravages of time, to all the different streets in the area!!

We are intent on collecting up all these loose pages such that the local history is pieced together.

In time, the aim would be to make the recollections available to all – perhaps in a loose leaf news letter or as a separate article in Village Voice, etc. In all instances and circumstances privacy will be maintained! No addresses will be published and only first names would accompany the memory so as to add a personal touch.

Photos, etc. would simply be copied – not kept - and you would therefore retain the originals.

If you can assist us and wish to share with us your recollections and old photos, we would love to hear from you. Please write to “Recollections” c/o Maldens and Coombe Heritage Group, 52 Blagdon Road, New Malden, Surrey KT3 4AE or by email, recollectionsmchg@gmail.com (PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY ORIGINAL PHOTOS OR DOCUMENTS – JUST ADVISE US HOW WE MAY CONTACT YOU.) (if you would like to assist or attend our next meeting

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‘Helping children achieve their personal best’

An independent preparatory school for boys and girls aged 3 to 11 years.

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1. First published in 1953 and still running today, which magazine was originally intended to be called Stag Party?

2. Appearing regularly in The Sun, by what name is Margaret Anne Lake better known?

3. What is the main subject of the monthly magazine Empire?

4. Which fictional newspaper employed Spiderman’s alter-ego Peter Parker as a photographer?

5. Founded in 1922, which general interest magazine uses the winged horse Pegasus as it’s logo?

6. From August 3rd 2007, the Daily Express dedicated at least part of its next 100 front pages to which story?

7. Which of the Tweenies has the same name as a women’s weekly magazine?

8. In March 1986, which now-defunct newspaper became the first British daily newspaper to feature colour photographs?

9. Which Sunday newspaper publishes a “Rich List” each year, featuring a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people in the UK? 10. Which magazine was originally intended to have a name with two more letters that it has in its current name, the reason for the change being that people might have incorrectly thought it was a magazine about snooker?

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What’s on For Malden Fortnight listings please see page 6&7

Come along and enjoy a great family day out!

Sacred Heart Primary School is getting into the Olympic Spirit by hosting an Olympic themed Summer Fair Saturday 30th June 2012, 12noon – 3pm Burlington Road, New Malden, Surrey KT3 4ND Burlington Infant & Junior Scshools Summer Fair Date: Saturday 14 July Time: 12 – 4 Admission: Adults £1, Children Free Come along to our summer fair – have a fun day out, and see the results of our recent expansion project. Both schools are now four-form entry, and the building works have also given us a new Hall/Dining complex, shared by both schools, a new multi-use games area, and improved outside play and learning areas.

Attractions at our Olympics-themed fair will include ball games, beat the goalie, tug of war, long jump, kiddie carts, bouncy castle, fairground rides, face painting, tombolas, raffle, craft stalls, sand art and much more. If you get peckish, there will be kids’ lunchboxes, pizza, BBQ, international food, cakes and ice lollies, plus Pimms, beer tent and kids’ cocktails.

Epsom Downs Racecourse Epsom Live! with Frankie Valli - Thursday (eve) 5th July with Will Young - Thursday (eve) 12th July with Razorlight - Thursday (eve) 19th July with The Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular - Thursday (eve) 26th July with The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Thursday (eve) 2nd August Family Fun Raceday - Monday (BH) 27th August Summer Racing -Tuesday 28th August The Rose Theatre Box Office: 08444 821556 (bkg fee) www.rosetheatrekingston.org (bkg fee)

I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue Mon 2 Jul £5.00 to £9.00 Hamlet Wed 4 Jul £8.00 A Murder In Paris Wed 25 Jul £5.00 to £15.00 London 2012 Olympic Games Big Screen Fri 27 Jul to Sun 5 Aug Pinocchio Thu 2 Aug to Sun 5 Aug £8.00 to £12.00 Mort - The Musical Wed 29 Aug to Sat 1 Sep £8.00 to £25.00 Cirque De Ciel’s Shanghi Thu 6 Sep to Sun 9 Sep £8.00 to £26.00 The Second Mrs Tanqueray Thu 27 Sep to Sat 27 Oct Jo Brand Sat 24 Nov £12.00 to £22.00

Epsom Playhouse Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey

KT18 5AL 01372 742555/742227 Website: & online booking: www.epsomplayhouse.co.uk Tuesday 3 July 7.30pm

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We Need To Talk About Kevin (15) based on Lionel Shriver’s bestselling novel Thursday 7 July 8pm Janice Day - Getting It Off My Chest Monday 9 July 8pm Kevin Bridges Top comedian live on stage Tuesday 10 July 2.30pm & 7.30pm Hugo (U) Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s award winning book Wednesday 11 July 7.30pm The Woman in Black (12a) Starring Daniel Radcliffe Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 July 7.30pm Epsom Players present Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim Thursday 12 July 7.30pm Five Star Swing Big Band Unique feel good big band show Sunday 15 July 7pm Holland 2012 A pre tour concert by members of Merton Music Foundation and Wandsworth Schools’ Music Service Saturday 21 July 11am & 2pm Milkshake Starring Milkshake presenter Amy with Little Princess, Noddy, Roary the Racing Car, Fifi and Bananas in Pyjamas Tuesday 31 July 2.30pmThe Muppets (U)

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Scouting in New Malden

This might all seem a far cry from our gentile Cream Teas in New Malden but the ethos remains the same.

Scouting (whether a Beaver, Cub, Scout or Explorer) can really help to encourage young people to make a real and long-lasting commitment to their communities and develop a wide range of valuable skills through adventurous activities.

(And here in NM, they make some pretty yummy scones and a mean cup of tea, too!!)

For more information about Scouting in New Malden (particularly if you’re interested in volunteering), please contact Jane Pringle on 020 8287 1935 or jane.pringle@onceyoupop.com

Saturday 30th June sees 1st Malden Scout Group hosting its second ‘Cream Tea’ event as part of Malden Fortnight’s calendar of activities.

And, if last year’s success is anything to go by, (which raised hundreds of pounds for both the Scout Troop and the charity, The Lunchbowl Network) everyone should make a date in their diary to pop down to the gardens of the group’s Headquarters on Tadworth Avenue from 2.30pm to be waited on by some of New Malden’s finest young people (and of course their ever willing mums and dads in the washing up tent!)

Serving Cream Teas to the residents and friends of New Malden is just one example of how Scouting continues to play an important part in the community. For over 100 years (the 1st Malden Troop was first founded in 1908) many local young people aged from 6 – 18 have had the opportunity to make new friends, learn skills, develop talents, gain confidence and above all HAVE GREAT FUN by becoming involved with the Scouting ‘movement’ – not to mention being encouraged to take part in voluntary and charity work.

Scouting - much like the Guides and Brownies – has recently enjoyed a real renaissance and a boost in popularity. It’s “cool”, it’s “awesome” and with activities from canoeing and camping, rifle shooting and mountain biking regularly on offer, it’s no wonder that waiting lists across the country are currently sky high and kids just can’t get enough of it!

On a more serious note, the Scout Association has recently been using digital media as means of communicating with other young people – as well as trying to challenge preconceptions of both Scouting and ‘youth culture’ in Britain today. A short film, called ‘Expect More’ – which can be viewed on YouTube – was launched in the Spring and has been highly acclaimed for its efforts in showing the positive impact that youth organisations and charities have on young people.

Why not take a few minutes to have a look……

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Jenny: Pictured: 1st Malden Group Scout Leader Yvonne Wilkinson receiving a recent award for 40 years’ service and the Scouts latest ambassador, the lovely Duchess of Cambridge

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Green Pastures Local resident David Ballard describes links between Uganda and New Malden For over ten years I have travelled in Africa from my home in New Malden.

During that time I became aware of the difficulties women face where, so often, they are left on their own to support themselves, their children and other dependent relatives. With minimal education and few opportunities to work, their lives offer little hope for improvement; their struggle is to exist from day-to-day and find enough food to eat. There is no state help with food or accommodation and little given for education and medical needs.

I had a vision to do something to help at least some women, not by sending a donation somewhere but by doing something for the longer term that would help them to help themselves, their families and others.

Thus in 2008 this vision to set up Green Pastures (GP) as a care, counselling and training centre in Uganda came into being. With a Christian base, its aims are to help women in desperate situations to becoming selfsupporting.

Land was purchased, which was bush – now there is housing for our administrator and her family and other needy people, plus a classroom for training. Women of various ages come with no skills and are instructed by a tailoring teacher on how to make clothes. Some have now progressed to being able to sell clothes they have made. We plan to employ some of these women to make clothes to sell to raise additional funds for GP; others we hope to help start their own businesses. Also, there is a crafts teacher who instructs women to make jewellery and craft items for sale.

In addition a small agricultural and poultry scheme on the site provides a certain amount of food for the family of our administrator and other needy people. Any remaining produce is sold to raise funds to go back into supporting the centre.

At GP the women are cared for by offering counselling in their many different situations and also some are given additional financial help. Lives are being changed.

This project is registered in Uganda as an NGO. In time we believe it will be self-supporting.

Green Pastures is still an infant project and we (my wife and I plus a small band of supporters) are working hard to develop it further. My wife and I and others hope to raise funds by selling some of the jewellery made by the women of the crafts class – all this is made by hand and results in some colourful and fashionable items – at the coming Craft Fair in New Malden High Street on Saturday 7 July.

All proceeds will go back to the women in Uganda and into supporting Green Pastures.

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Dry weather

by Pippa Greenwood

After all those weeks in early summer when it seemed unable to stop raining, many plants will have been lulled into a false sense of security. And those of us who look after the plants are also likely to have become a little too used to not worrying about what and how to water to best effect, and how to minimise the effects of dry weather. So if you’re now finding yourself battling with the effects of a more text-book summer, here are my tips for coping: Mulching really does help to keep the moisture in the soil.

It’s important to make sure the soil is really well watered BEFORE you apply the mulch, so water well or wait until after there has been a heavy rainfall. Then around the area, covering the roots of the plant (or preferably a bit further) shovel on well-rotted manure, composted bark or garden compost. Don’t forget that vegetables as well as flowers benefit from mulching.

A slow but steady supply of water is generally more use and more appreciated by plants than intermittent heavy drenching. Newly planted trees and shrubs establish better and suffer drought stress less if the soil is never allowed to dry out completely. Installing some perforated or permeable pipe beneath the soil surface or on the surface but beneath the mulch provides just what they need.

If you’re making any new plantings for the patio right now, don’t risk them becoming drought stressed before their moment of autumn or winter glory comes. When planting up late season patio pots, decrease the effects of the summer sun by lining the insides of the pot with bubblewrap polythene.

When you do need to use extra water on your garden, try to apply it in the evening or otherwise as early as you can in the morning. Less will be lost by evaporation and there will also be less likelihood of plants suffering scorching.

However much you’ve taken a fancy to a gorgeous looking plant in your local garden centre, don’t buy it right now. In hot, dry conditions it is much harder for a plant to become established and much more likely that it’ll suffer stress.

A bit of temporary shading, perhaps in the form of some shade netting (available from garden centres) or some large, leafy branches driven in to the soil, will help to keep things a little cooler during the hotter weather. It may not look great, but it could save you a packet in replacing plants.

Vegetable plants can be covered with netted cloches (like the Giant Easy Net Tunnels available from my website) to achieve the same effect – and these will also help to keep off many potential pests too.

Siphoning water out from the bath is a great way to re-use domestic water. The usual tiny quantities of soap or bubble bath used by most of us won’t cause any problems with plants and makes a great drink for trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables.

Remember that some plants are more tolerant of dry conditions than others, so next time you do shop for plants, it may be worth bearing this in mind. On the whole, plants with silvery or densely hairy leaves are pretty drought

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tolerant, as are those whose names imply that they are of Mediterranean origin. Some of my favourite droughtresisters include: Convolvulus cneorum – stunning silvery leaves and miniature white flowers, often with a touch of pink, which resemble those of morning glories.

Rosemary – this shrub has great purple flowers and wonderfully aromatic foliage, perfect for cooking, and when mature many people use the wood to make barbeque skewers which are said to impart a delightful rosemary aroma to the meat.

Senecio maritima – a pretty divided leafed plant with dense hair on the leaves making it look silvery.

Gazanias – with their large orange, brown and burgundy flowers and silvered leaves, they look a treat in patio pots of summer borders.

Lavenders – aromatic leaves and perfumed blue, lilac purple or white flower spikes, this cottage garden favourite is also a magnet for bees.

Geraniums and their cousins, Pelargoniums, are both very drought resistant, and come with foliage that is often attractively marked and pretty flowers. Pelargoniums, usually the more flamboyantly coloured of the two, are not hardy but great in summer containers and the herbaceous geraniums should last for years.

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Clubs To feature inthis section email info@nmvv.co.uk Monday NEW MALDEN ROTARY CLUB Where: Malden Golf Club,Traps Lane,When: Monday evenings at 6:15 for 6:45pm Contact: Barry Collins on 07740 257 255 MONDAY NETBALL CLUB When: Mondays 8.30pm Contact: Ching Lee 07813 556184 ENGLISH CONVERSATION / LESSONS FOR KOREANS Where: Christ Church Centre, Coombe Road When: Mondays & Tuesdays, 10.00 am - 12.00 noon All welcome: contact Chris Coke 020 8942 7388.

ST JAMES PLAYERS Where: St James Bodley Road When: Mondays 8pm.

Tuesday ARTHRITIS CARE New Malden branch Where: Age Concern Kingston Raleigh House 14 Nelson Road New Malden KT3 5EA When: 4th Tuesday of month 7.30 -9.30pm We aim to provide back-up support for arthritis sufferers and an opportunity for members to enjoy a social evening through our regular monthly meetings. Jocelyn King 020 8942 6745.

THE NEW MALDEN LADIES BADMINTON CLUB When: Tuesday at the Malden Centre from 20.30 till 22.00 We are a mixed ability club looking for new members. Please ring Lynda on 8949 2673 or just pop in HALF SHARES We are a group of widows who meet together on the 1st Tuesday of every month. We have a speaker and enjoy a cuppa and a chat. Come and join us at 1.453.15pm at Christ Church Centre, Coombe Rd For more details contact Lily on 020 8949 1431.

THE NEW MALDEN INVESTMENT CLUB Our meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at the Grafton Club, Grafton Road, New Malden. We do have a few vacancies and new member are always welcome.Contact the secretary on 020 8942 1926 for further information.

Wednesday MALDEN & COOMBE SOCIAL CLUB FOR THE BLIND WHEN: 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 2pm to 4pmContact; Mike Ball 02089420819 Volunteer drivers/helpers VERY welcome ROYAL BRITISH LEGION MALDEN & COOMBE The Legion meets every second Wednesday afternoon from 2.30pm at the Grafton Club. Any interested parties

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in joining please contact Mary Gillett on 020 8949 2342 who will be very pleased to give any information to help or assist.

Thursday MALDEN CAMERA CLUB Where: New Malden Library, Kingston Road When: Thursday evenings throughout the year at 7.45pm Contact: www. maldencameraclub.org.uk MALDEN CENTRE ORCHESTRA Where: Malden Centre, Blagdon Road When: 10.00-12.00noon, every Thursday (term time only) Contact: Conductor David Benke on 02087868517.

TOLWORTH BADMINTON CLUB Where: Play at Tolworth Recreation Centre When: Club night Thursday evenings 7.30-9.30 Standard: Intermediate/advanced level Contact: www.tolworthbadmintonclub.co.uk or ring Pat on 0208 395 9175 or just turn up on a Thursday MALDEN AND COOMBE FLOWER DECORATION SOCIETY At St.James Church Hall Bodley Road WHEN the third Thursday of the month at 7.50 pm MALDEN EMERGENCY FIRST AID SOCIETY (MEFAS). Members meet each Thursday evening at 7.30pm for First Aid training. New members required.

Everyone welcome. Hall available for hire. Contact Christine on 07966661015.

Friday MALDEN ARTS ASSOCIATION Everyone is welcome including non-artists. We meet once a month on a Friday afternoon in the Malden Centre, Cocks Crescent, Blagdon Road, New Malden, Surrey at 4.00pm.prompt. Visitors are welcome.

Contact: Joyce Clay on 0208 540 6578.

RSPB Epsom and Ewell Local group. We meet the 2nd Friday of every month at 7.30, apart from July and August, at All Saints Church Hall Fulford Road, West Ewell with guest speakers who illustrate their enthusiasm on a variety of natural history subjects.

We also have several birding outings throughout the year which is arranged to suit all ages. There is a small charge for non-members of the RSPB. www.rspb.org. uk/groups/epsom.

Saturday SATURDAY DEMENTIA CLUB Age Concern Kingston 2nd Saturday of the month 11am and 2pm in New Malden for people living with dementia, their family and carers, Call 020 8942 8256 and ask for Jyoti or email saturdayclub@ageconcernkingston.org

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General EMANUEL RUGBY Where: Shannon Corner, KT3 4PU When: Adults Mondays & Wednesdays 7.30pm, Saturday 2-3pm. Children Sunday 10:30am Contact: www.emanuelrugby.co.uk info@ emanuelrugby.co.uk Fergus McCarthy 0845 8338974 days & evenings.

GRAHAM SPICER SNOOKER ROOM Availible for hire during the day and evenings.

Contact Secretary for availibility on 020 8942 2157.

MALDEN BOWLING CLUB Where: Lime Grove, New Malden Tel: John on 020 8949 4315 SUPREME BOWLS CLUB Where: junction of Thetford Road and Windsor Avenue in the playing field opposite Woodies pub in New Malden.

Contact Mick or Diana 020 8942 0294.

WEST WIMBLEDON SOCIETY TABLE TENNIS CLUB Friendly social table tennis club in Raynes Park welcomes new members (sorry not complete beginners).

For more details call 020 8947 3564.

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Kids play There’s lots going on for pre-schoolers in New Malden Monday 10am to 11.30am Tots In Tow St John’s Church, Kingston Road Contact Penny Welsh 0208 288 1801 1.15 pm 3.15pm. St James Tiddlers Group We welcome all parents and toddlers, plus big sisters and brothers when they’re on holidays. St James Church Hall, Bodley Rd Contact Angie: 020 8942 2093 9.30 - 11.30 Stay and Play (0-18 months) - New Malden Children’s Centre, Burlington Road 020 8336 1561.

Tuesday 10am to 11.45am St Joseph’s Toddler Group St Joseph’s R C Church, Montem Road 9.30am to 11.30am Sparkles United Reformed Church, Cavendish Hall, Cavendish Road Contact Peggy Cox 020 8949 3402 to visit. 9-11.30 Stay and Play New Malden Children’s Centre, Burlington Road 020 8336 1561 Wednesday 10am to 11.45am Tots in Tow (see Monday) 10am and 11.45 ST Joseph’s Toddler Group (see Tuesday).

12.30pm - 3.pm Stay and Play (0 - 5 years) - New Malden Children’s Centre, Burlington Road 020 8336 1561 Thursday 9.45 to 11.30am Methodist Church Parent and Toddler Group Methodist Church, High Street, Contact Greta Curry. 9.30am to 12.30pm 9.30 - 12 noon

Childminders’ drop in including school holidays, Norbiton Children’s Centre, The Mount School, Dickerage Road, 0208 942 2559 10.30-11am, Story time aimed at age 3+New Malden Library, Friday 9.30am to 11.30am Christ Church Parent and Toddler Group Christ Church, Coombe Road Contact Susie Gregerson 020 8241 9423. 9.45am to 11.15am Tadpoles Parent and Toddler Group New Malden Baptist Church, Kingston Road 020 8942 6912 – not a drop in session so call first. 10.30-11am, Rhyme time aimed at age 0-3 Kingston Library. 9.30-12.30 Toy Library New Malden Children’s Centre, Burlington Road 020 8336 1561. Also at NMCC Breastfeeding Support Group - 10.00 - 12.00 - first week of the month Twins Support Group - 10.00 12.00 - Second and fourth weeks of the month, Tuesday-Friday Parent and Toddler Play Sessions Dickerage Lane Adventure Playground Dickerage Lane, Daniel Slocombe 020 8942 1707, Saturday 10-12noon Who let the dads out is at Norbiton Children’s Centre, The Mount School, Dickerage Lane, New Malden Runs the third Saturday of every month. 10am-12pm Stay and Play - Dads group - - first Saturday of every month New Malden Children’s Centre, Burlington Road 020 8336 1561.

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the parcel, musical statues and bumps etc while our mum got the party food ready and we would love to help you too!

Ellie and I can organise games, provide and operate the party music, set the food table, clear away, wash up etc leaving you time to do other things!

For little girls, we also provide a “sparkly makeup” service and for boys a “tattoo parlour” (temporary of course!) as your guests arrive or to calm them down before eating. No job is too big or small.

Ellie and I have set up “Party People” to help you host a brilliant one and to raise funds for a tall ship voyage which we would like to take part in during the summer holidays. We both need to raise £200 and hope we are very competitive charging £35 for a 2 hour party for both of us including the makeup and tattoos, compared with other adult makeup parties which are much more.

We even have a special offer of £30 for the first 5 people to book “The Happy Party Helpers!”

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Safer Neighbourhoods by Sgt Nick Ellis In the spirit of helping everyone help themselves to keep safe and crime free, I would like to take time this issue to advise you about a new crime trend that has been identified.

Primarily elderly people have been receiving a home visit or a phone call from people who are pretending to be from their bank. These people try to get important bank details from the householder - and can be very persuasive and credible. It is very, very important that you remember the following : Your bank will NEVER ask for detailed personal information They will never attend your property unless by appointment Do not part with any personal information if you are unsure about who is collecting it Visit your Bank personally if you are unhappy in any way at all about discussing via telephone On the same theme of bogus callers, there have been a number of instances where callers have pretended to be from a company servicing smoke alarms. They try to persuade residents to allow them in to check their smoke alarms. Some wear a uniform of some sort but do not

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identify where they are from or who they are. If you get such a visit remember: The London Fire Brigade or Council can check smoke alarms Make an appointment; do not let random callers into your property.

Any persons attending will have identification which you MUST ask for Some residents feel embarrassed about asking for identification. Bear in mind that any authorised caller ie a gas meter reader will be only too happy, and indeed should, offer identification. If in doubt, at any time, ask the person to return at a pre arranged time by which point you can have checked his or her bona fides, and, if you live alone, asked a friend or neighbour to stay with you.

If you would like any further information then contact your local Safer Neighbourhood Team. Contact details for Beverley ward are 020 8721 2750 and for Coombe Vale 020 8721 2515. Old Malden can be reached on 020 8721 2517 and St James on 020 8721 2595 If you would like to report a crime then dial 101 or, in an emergency, always dial 999.

Having issued this warning, please bear in mind such instances are very rare. We live and work in one of the safest boroughs within London. Let’s all continue to work together to keep it that way.

Whilst out and about don’t forget about our local meetings for residents. Upcoming ones are : Beverley & Coombe Vale SNT 4th July 2012 - Drop-in surgery Methodist Church on the High Street at 2pm till 4pm 18th July 2012 - Drop-in surgery Methodist Church on the High Street at 10.30am till 12.30am On a final note, a reminder of our opening times here at CI Tower, Monday - Friday 12.30pm - 5.30pm Saturday 10.30am - 3.30pm Sunday - Closed Wishing you a sunny and problem free July.

Nicholas ELLIS PS 46VK Beverley Safer Neighbourhoods Team

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Dad’s Diary

Tick.Tock.Tick.Tock.

So, look no further, the reason that forty-somethings are at the bottom of the happiness curve is the sudden, horrifying, realisation that they are turning into their The old believe everything, the parents.

Perhaps this is what Larkin really meant when he middle-aged suspect everything, the wrote ‘ They **** you up, your mum and dad ‘ - that there’s no escape, that the gene time-bomb will get you young know everything. Oscar Wilde in the end - the only good news is that with the onset of Cocktail Party Deafness you don’t notice the ticking Miserable Middle Age getting louder. It’s slow, insidious, but you start to notice This refers not to a Horrible Histories sketch but changing: to the results of research into People over forty-five are more things • visits to the dentists get longer, happiness. Using data on two million likely drink alcohol more than five more frequent and more expensive people, from eighty countries nations, they found a remarkanbly days a week than their younger • newsprint starts getting smaller and can only be read in bright light consistent global pattern in counterparts • adverts for digital hearing aids depression and happiness levels that One-third of people aged between become morbidly fascinating leaves us most miserable in middle the lyrics of pop songs are age. forty and forty-three, thought they •increasingly incomprehensible (not They found that happiness levels had had a midlife crisis that you listen to any as the radio followed a U-shaped curve, with happiness higher towards the start (average age of the “crisis” - 46) stays tuned to Radio 4) • nobody asks you what you’re going and end of our lives and leaving us to do with the rest of your life most grumpy in middle age.

• you do things, every day, you swore you’d never do Using a sample of one million people from the UK, the twenty years ago researchers discovered that for both men and women At least, according to the research, the only way is up! the probability of depression peaks around forty-four years of age.

One of the authors, Professor Andrew Oswald said, “Some people suffer more than others but in our data the average effect is large. It happens to men and Kim Robinson DCH DHP women, to single and married people, to rich and poor, and to those with and without children. Nobody knows why we see this consistency. What causes this apparently Clinical Hypnosis U-shaped curve, and its similar shape in different parts “Helping you to of the developed and even often developing world, is unknown.” help yourself”

by Ian Duncan

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The answer my friend Come on Professor, the reason isn’t unknown, it’s glaringly obvious. Do you remember those things that your parents did that really, really annoyed you; irritating, patronising silly things that they used do or say when you were a child or a teenager. Sadly, in middle age, history starts to repeat itself. I hated it when my mother took out her hanky, licked it and then wiped that dirty mark off my face (Mind you I was twenty one at the time). What did I find myself doing to daughter number two the other day! How irritating was it when my Dad called me by my brother’s name or the dog’s or viceversa – probably as annoying as my daughters find it now. I even found myself jangling coins in my pocket the other day - just like him. Noooooo!

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Fake It 28 Fine Features 21 Glitz’n’Glam 9

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Department Stores Driving lessons Education & courses

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AC Gardening 55 BF Gardening 55 Cypress (Garden Services) 22 Ed’s Gardening 48 FL Gardening 61 RJ Trees 14 Turner Tree Care 38 Genealogy Robin Gill 9

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