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Welcome to

our August edition Dear All, Wasn’t the weather in July absolutely fabulous? We managed weeks of endless sunshine and it certainly took the stress out of event planning with gazebos being used for shade as opposed to keeping the rain off! We unfortunately had to cancel the local Malden Fortnight Dog Show – a very wise decision as the day was really baking hot.

As you may already know, The Worcester Park Traders Association (WPTA) was re-launched in 2013. They have received funding from the Outer London Fund, a £2M regeneration project for North Cheam and Worcester Park to boost the vibrancy and vitality of our local high streets - the aim is to support local business activity and growth.

The WPTA are organising a family fun day on 31st August and would love to welcome as many residents as they can. So why not put it in your diary and go along 11-3pm in Central Road. For more information www.wpta.co.uk Last month saw the retirement of Mr Roger Easthope. He joined Cheam Common Junior School as Deputy Head Teacher in 1988. He also taught Year 5 classes during his early years with the school.

From the start, Mr Easthope became involved in numerous activities both within and outside of school hours, including managing the boys’ school football teams and the schools’ athletic teams. Mr Easthope was appointed Headteacher of Cheam Common in April 1997. During his headship, he has steered the school through 3 OFSTED with Cheam Common achieving Outstanding in each due to his drive, vision and supportive staff!. We wish him well!

I hope you enjoy our August edition. Lots of great articles and advertisers – thanks, as always to everyone who has contributed.

Best wishes Jenny Stuart, Editor & publisher P.S. Please remember to mention Worcester Park Life when replying to adverts and get in touch by 17th August if you’d like your business, Club or event to feature in the September edition(s).

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Next copy deadline: 17th Aug Published by Malden Media Limited 36 Rosebery Avenue, KT3 4JS

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Worcester Park Life is such a great local magazine to advertise my business in. I got so much interest. I started my baby/ toddler music classes in August. I am now opening the forth and fifth classes.

Thanks to Worcester Park Life. Ginger from Music Fun As “the local plumber” I’m pleased to be a part of the New Malden Village Voice and Worcester Park Life communities, living and working with the people in the area. The publications bring me a lot of my local work and Jenny manages my Ad in a very helpful, professional manner. I’ve been a regular advertiser in both magazines for a couple of years now and would thoroughly recommend the service to other local, small businesses. Andy Reeve, plumber

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History

Builders at work – 475 years ago

This month we look back 475 years to the summer of 1538, and the early stages of the building of Nonsuch Palace. The Palace was constructed on the site of the church and village of Cuddington, close to the angle in the avenue through what we now call Nonsuch Park. Its primary purpose was as a hunting lodge for Henry VIII, and it had two deer parks – the Little Park around the Palace, and the Great Park, which eventually became known as Worcester Park, and covered the area stretching from the London Road to Central Road, The Avenue and Walsingham Gardens (with some variations over time).

By 1538 travelling had become irksome to Henry, and he had decided to establish a new hunting estate within easy reach of London. He already had a suitable residence on which the forest would be centred, at Hampton Court. This had been built by Henry’s powerful minister Cardinal Wolsey, but

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when Wolsey fell from favour Hampton Court became a royal residence. Henry moved in during 1530, and soon began to enlarge it, adding a Great Hall 106 feet long.

Hampton Court was large enough to accommodate the whole court, and Oatlands, which Henry began constructing at Weybridge, provided an outpost in the western part of his new forest. Henry wanted something more, however: a building which at the practical level would be an intimate hunting lodge, a “privy palace”, but which would also serve the symbolic purpose of portraying the House of Tudor, newly-secured in 1537 by the long-awaited birth of a prince, as one of the great royal houses of Europe and an inheritor of the Classical ideals of virtue. And Cuddington was the place in which he chose to build it.

The king’s new hunting estate was formally established in 1539 by act of Parliament, as the Honour of Hampton Court. Parts of the estate, such as the land around Nonsuch, became Parks, owned by the king himself and reserved almost exclusively for deer.

The remainder of the Honour, although remaining in other hands, became subject to forest laws which, as in the New Forest, protected the deer which roamed it (although, as in the New Forest, much of the land was not ‘forest’ in the modern sense of being densely planted with trees). From 1540 the Honour stretched from the Epsom and Walton Downs to Wandsworth and Battersea in the east, and Walton-on-Thames in the west.

In the summer of 1538, Richard Codington and his wife

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Elizabeth, the last of the line of the de Codyngton family who had owned Cuddington manor for three centuries, surrendered it to the king, and were given in return an estate in Suffolk. By this time, work had already begun on site. On 22nd April 1538, two clerks began work. By 29th April, six freemasons, two bricklayers and six labourers had joined the payroll.

During the summer, the workforce increased rapidly: the list of men present on 12th August comprised 47 masons, 98 bricklayers, 10 chalk-diggers, 114 carpenters, 30 sawyers, 12 carters, a scaffolder, a hodmaker, four clerks and 167 labourers.

These workmen came from a wide area: masons were paid to travel as far afield as Herefordshire and Northamptonshire to press men into service. The building materials, too, came from many sources: during the summer of 1538 over 3,500 one-ton loads were brought from the recently-dissolved Merton Priory, and more stone was brought by boat from London to Ditton.

Tiles came from Kingston and Streatham; timber was selected in woods as far away as Bookham and Newdigate, and as near as Rutherwick copse (in the Riverhill area of Worcester Park); scaffolding was brought from Dorking, and fencing from many of the parishes around Dorking and Reigate. Even the residents of Cuddington could benefit from the situation: Thomas Fenner of Cuddington sold three

hand-barrows at 4d each, and Thomas Carpenter was paid nearly £15 for elm board, firewood and straw.

Kilns were built at Nonsuch for burning bricks and lime; they were located near the banqueting house and the present Mansion House; three men from Stoke D’Abernon were paid for producing 600,000 bricks at a rate of 2s per thousand.

By September 1538, the foundations of the Inner Court had probably been largely constructed, and the building of the walls begun; metal and timber for the window frames had already been purchased, and the hall of the manor house had been re-tiled so that it could be used for accommodation (whether for the builders or for a possible royal site inspection is uncertain). In the early 1540s, work continued, notably on the decoration of the Inner Court; by November 1545, expenditure on the palace reached £24,536 7s 7d.

These details are drawn from the building accounts, which survive for the period April to September 1538, and were published by John Dent in his book The Quest for Nonsuch, a detailed and very readable history of the Palace first published in 1962, three years after the Palace was excavated, and reprinted by the London Borough of Sutton Libraries and Arts Services in 1981.

Our pictures this month show the south (garden) front of the Inner Court of the Palace, from John Speed’s

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map of Surrey (1610), and the excavations of the Palace in 1959 (photographed by Margaret Rymill).

You can get a vivid impression of the Palace buildings by visiting the model recently commissioned by The Friends of Nonsuch – see the What’s on pages for details.

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Events

Cuddington Beer Festival This year’s Cuddington Beer Festival will be on Friday 13thSeptember from 6 to 10pm and Saturday 14th September from 12 - 4pm and 6 - 10pm.

This community event is being held at Rowe Hall, Salisbury Road, Worcester Park KT4 7DD to raise funds for the 2nd Cuddington (Rowe) Scout Group.

There will be a good selection of over 30 real ales and ciders available and food will be available at all three sessions.

Each beer and cider is £1 for a 1/3rd of a pint which makes it great for tasting beers etc, that you haven’t had before or enjoying all your favourites!

Saturday lunch time is open to families and both evening sessions are over 18’s only.

Entry is by ticket (£5 per adult) and includes a souvenir lined pint glass and a programme that

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contains the tasting notes.

Visit the website www.scoutingforbeer.org.uk to purchase your entry tickets.

Tickets are also available in person by calling into Centrals Bar in Worcester Park, or B. Radford & Son’s on Stoneleigh Broadway.

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Ruth Jemmett Writes People in glass houses Ruth Jemmett Muses On The Joy Of Buying A Greenhouse The excitement surrounding the arrival of the new royal baby has been infectious. A birth - royal or otherwise - is usually a time for celebration . I am sure that like me (unless you aren’t keen on the blue-blooded brigade) you will wish The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all the best as they confront the world of sleepless nights and mountains of nappies. As we are already riding on a wave of British pride after a stunningly successful Olympic Games, followed by Andy Murray’s amazing triumph at Wimbledon, we are surely now allowing ourselves to be a little happier than usual.

I have to tell you that I am awaiting a new arrival at my home in Salisbury Road - albeit not of the human kind, and am agog with childish anticipation. I have ordered a greenhouse. I am an avid gardener, and over the years I have become more and more adept at snipping cuttings from plants of all descriptions, and succeeding in making them grow. It hasn’t been an easy journey, as I am not a fan of chemicals, which, of course, has meant that rooting powder hasn’t been on the agenda. It has been a rocky path, filled with under-watering, over-watering, and the invention of many a rude word. However, as time has passed, and with the assistance of tips from gardening friends and various magazines, I have learnt how to encourage my little green friends to multiply. My laden plant pots have now become rather intrusive, as they vie for space in my kitchen lean-to, on my patio, and in the garden shed. (No - I know my new addition to the family will not be in the same league as a new baby, but it’s all about the excitement accompanying propagation of a species, isn’t it?!). The time has come when I am getting frustrated at trying to find a place for yet another pot. In summer parts of my home resembles The Day Of The Triffids, and as burgeoning blooms seem to hit me in the face at every turn, I know that things have got to change.

I always swore that I wouldn’t become a typical older person. When I was a girl I was a bit of a quiet rebel, refusing to follow the norm. (When I attended my convent all those years ago I once nearly gave

a nun apoplexy as I removed my dainty boater hat and replaced it with a crash helmet before I leapt on the back of a boyfriend’s motorbike to go home.

Well, I was only fourteen at the time ….). I promised myself that when I got to ‘a certain age’ I would never invest in carpet slippers, or nod off in the afternoon unexpectedly, and would certainly never buy the ultimate symbol of a boring pensioner’s life - a greenhouse. I am sorry to admit that I have now ticked all three of those boxes, along with showing other signs of taking the downward path, , including forgetting people’s names, having a fondness for firm chairs, and constantly looking for my glasses.

As the time for the arrival of my glassy acquisition gets nearer I feel that I am becoming a real old W.A.G. No - not a ’wife and/or girlfriend of a famous person, but Woman And Greenhouse. I keep on finding myself engrossed in articles about automatic ventilation systems. My knowledge about buying the right sort of staging for the green house is second to none, and I am a veritable bore when discussing the merits of various seed-trays. I frequently find myself

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engrossed in literature about greenhouse pests and different types of glazing. When I was young I used to go to sleep dreaming about Elvis Presley. At this age I have fantasies about the prospect of using Gro-bags to nurture tomatoes. When we are young our hormones dictate that we go forth and multiply. Once we are in our sixties our DWINDLING hormones (pass me the tweezers for dealing with all these unexpected hairs ….) dictate that we must make up for our deficiencies in populating the planet by increasing the life-force in different ways - i.e. by hurling seedlings in all directions, and talking to our green offspring as if they are recalcitrant children.

(Or is it only me and Prince Charles that does it?). I am sometimes to be seen smiling benevolently at a bud and muttering “You clever little thing - I knew you could do it!” whilst my husband scurries off to find a telephone number for a Home For The Bewildered.

I have several friends who are also keen gardeners, and I know that they are lurking with bated breath at the thought of sharing my new toy with me, happy in the knowledge that I will let them use the odd shelf in the greenhouse to plonk their own seed trays on. (Now, if I charged them for such a service I could be on to a nice little earner …….. No, no - I wouldn’t be that mean …).

A few years ago I was a very active member of The Ewell Horticultural Association, and would frequently win prizes for my efforts. Competition was hot, and

on show days those of use who were exhibiting our parsnips, onions or whatever, would glare at each other, steely-eyed, across the dusty floorboards of a local hall , hoping that our fellow competitors’ produce wouldn’t measure up - visually or literally. There is something about the English nation that makes it impervious to emotion - unless the tear-ducts are forced into action by the news that one’s beetroots or sprouts are winners - or indeed, that we have lost at cricket.

There is no doubt that it is deeply satisfying to grow things, whether it be pretty plants or food to eat.

Despite the wonders of our technical world, there is something particularly uplifting about crunching into one’s own home-grown produce. It touches something in our primeval soul - and it certainly touches one in the wallet, as you can save a lot of money by ‘growing your own’.

Now that I am officially a W.A.G., perhaps I should investigate other thrills to be experienced on my road to old age. Perhaps I can tut menacingly at young children, tell policemen how young they look, or throw Werther’s Originals at young people playing their music too loudly. Although, on second thoughts, perhaps I shouldn’t do the latter. You know what they say about people who live in glass houses!!!

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Seasonal recipe Peach Melba Shortcakes Ready in 2 hours 30 minutes Serves 8

These shortcakes are perfect for a speedy summer dessert. They take just minutes to make and bake and can be filled with whatever seasonal fruit you have to hand.

Here they are filled with a rich and sweet mascarpone cream with juicy peaches and fresh raspberries but a simple dollop of extra thick cream and some sliced strawberries will be just as impressive.

Ingredients: • 175g self-raising flour •1/2 tsp baking powder • 75g butter, chilled and diced •55g caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling • 1 large egg, beaten • 1 tbsp milk Filling • 125g mascarpone cheese • 2 tbsp icing sugar • 6 tbsp single cream • 175g fresh raspberries • 2 ripe peaches, stoned and sliced

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Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Lightly grease a large baking sheet.

Sift the flour and baking powder into a large bowl.

Add the diced butter and rub into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar then add the beaten egg and milk and mix to a soft dough.

Knead the dough lightly on a floured surface and roll out to a 1cm thickness. Using an 8cm round cookie cutter stamp out 8 rounds, gently re-rolling the trimmings as necessary. Place on the prepared baking sheet, prick the top of each round lightly with a fork then sprinkle with a little caster sugar.

Bake in the preheated oven for 12-15 minutes, or until risen and pale golden. Carefully transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

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Charity

begins at home On Saturday 29th June the “Friends” of Worcester Park Library held a “Help The Heroes Day”. Volunteers served “FREE” tea and coffee and the ladies from The Craft Club made cakes. They raised over £100 for the Heroes charity by selling homemade cake and having a raffle.

Also, we had a local Hero present, Major Ralph Rickard from Caldbeck Avenue. A retired Major who served in World War 2. (see attached photo).

Magazines and papers which were donated and left over went to The British Legion. A big “Thank You” to those who came along to help or participated in the day.

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JULY 2013 UPDATE We are now more than half way through the year and coming to a point when the market generally changes. Just how it varies is different from year to year. The summer is historically viewed as a slower period, and some 15 to 20 years ago that would almost certainly have been correct, but the property market is no longer rigidly seasonal and we expect the summer of 2013 to be very busy.

The current market The first half of the year has seen an extremely active indeed resulting in both a shortage of property supply and an increasing number of buyers who have failed to find the home they want. For many there is now considerable urgency to find in order to ensure they are settled in the right location for schools, work or similar and they will therefore continue their search in earnest throughout the warmer months. As a result of this mix of very determined buyers and the shortage of supply prices continue to edge upwards and are currently at, or in some instances a little above, the 2007 peak.

In addition, and for a variety of similar reasons, we are finding that rental demand is very high at the moment and rental values are also strong. Increasingly we are helping clients who either move from owned to rented property or use the increasingly popular option of let to buy.

At the time of writing many properties are attracting immediate attention and securing multiple offers within days (sometimes hours!) of coming to market. We expect that pattern to continue, and we don’t anticipate any slippage in prices.

Traditionally vendors have tended to wait until the end of the summer holidays to put their property on the market but we suspect they may well be missing a trick if they do so this year.

What will the autumn bring?

Less serious buyers tend to put house hunting to the back of their minds over the summer and will return to the market with renewed enthusiasm in the autumn often with a strong resolve or need to move by the year end. Once the holidays are over and school term starts the market generally picks up very quickly indeed and for that reason we are finding that canny vendors are starting to put the wheels in motion already.

Many vendors are coming to us for valuations now so that they have time to work through their finances over the summer, get a feel for the market and take a little time to ensure their home is presented in its best condition when they are ready to start selling. A few minor repairs, changes or a quick lick of paint can make an enormous difference to how quickly a property sells and, very importantly, the price achieved.

If you are thinking of selling it is definitely the right time to contact us for some friendly advice. We are always happy to chat through any property queries you may have. In the meantime we wish all our readers a really great and, fingers crossed, sunny summer.

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Shadbolt Park Day Lily Garden

an invitation...

Once again we would like to welcome visitors to our Day Lily Garden during the month of July.If you have visited before you’ll know how striking the colourful blooms are and will want to come again and for those not familiar with our special garden in Shadbolt Park,a treat awaits you.The Park is in Salisbury Road,Worcester Park KT4 7BX and our garden will be open each Wednesday,Saturday and Sunday throughout July from 2pm.until 4pm.Also,every Saturday morning we work in the Day Lily Garden between 10am.and 12 noon,giving yet another chance for you to drop in,we look forward to seeing you.

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separation creating points of entry for tree pests and diseases.

We recommend the use of “ringing” around the base of the tree, this will cause a rapid dieback of the ivy mass without causing problems from pulling the climbers from the branches. This work is best done outside the nesting season for birds to avoid unnecessary disturbance. The best method is to use loppers to cut away the stems between ground and shoulder level right around the tree.

Where the aesthetic form of the tree requires removal of the ivy mass then a careful climbing operation is required, this is most frequently undergone on trees that have weakened limbs form the excessive weight of the ivy mass.

Chemical treatments such as Glyphosate are available to use on the ivy rootplate stems but this requires caution to avoid affecting the tree rootplate itself.

Any ivy removed should be composted as bundles or mixed with other organic waste to decompose thoroughly.

In conclusion, I feel that the whole debate on whether ivy is an attractive addition to a healthy tree is a matter of personal opinion; as a tree surgeon and a tree “lover” I side with trees having ivy under strict control so we can appreciate the tree trunk, branches and canopy as a complete form uncluttered by invasive climbers.

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View from the City Getting real value out of the Royal Mail

by Justin Urquhart Stewart Now I agree that RM should be brought back into private ownership, if only to get it away from the interfering politicians who have used and abused it over the years. It was almost twenty years ago that Heseltine tried and failed to get the beast freed and it was seen then as being a ‘privatisation too far’. Of course, this was before email and the internet and so RM was suffering from aggressive and effective competition from the Dutch and even the Malaysian mail services, as junk mail was

redirected through their now far more competitive companies. RM had no answer to this except to be seen as almost a dying business as volume was taken away and an unreformed cost base rotted the value from within.

Now we are in a different era where the letter post has declined even more but the true value lies within the parcel delivery area, as internet shopping has delivered an unexpected boom and boon. I find it sadly amusing on Saturday mornings to stand watching husbands queue up at the local sorting office to collect their electronically and instantaneously ordered goods, probably all taking far longer than if they just gone to John Lewis in the first place.

However, what this means is that RM these days probably has more attraction to Amazon rather than anyone else as they seem to increasingly dominate the online ordering of sundry goods.

When it comes to the float though - oh dear have we really learnt nothing. Are we really going to go through the expensive (especially when you look at all the marketing that will be accompanying it) process of a popular public share offering? We know from previous experience that ‘popular share ownership’ didn’t work in creating a mass movement of public ownership.

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punting on a few stocks ‘priced to go’.

I have mentioned this before, but here is the perfect opportunity to resolve everyone’s issues with regards to handling state owned assets in a way that can be seen as being both cost effective and efficient, provides the government with its cash, frees the business to operate away from state control, and gives ownership in a fair and responsible manner to those who wish to participate.

With a value of something in the region of £2-3bn, here is the first valuable asset which could be transferred into the UK’s own Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). I say the first as I have mentioned before a host of other smaller value assets sitting in the government’s family silver caddy, which could then be also added to our SWF. This would therefore enable investors to invest into a portfolio of companies which the SWF would be able to manage effectively as an investment manager of a longer term private equity business.

It could buy and sell stakes as it thought fit and the underlying shareholders would benefit from the successful operation of this portfolio of companies over the years.

This would avoid the messy and fraught with danger route of trying to rush some of these asset sales in a manner determined by the government’s short term need for cash rather than good evaluation of market timing for the benefit of the business.

At that point we could then add some or all of the other assets as the government needs to transfer them and achieve a more managed sale over time.

These could include part of the holdings of RBS and Lloyds, as well as some of the more esoteric assets like the Met office, Urenco ( the nuclear processor in which the government has a one third stake) and the Student Loan Book.

To offer the citizens of Britain a share or unit in a fund of national assets would be a far more attractive offer and one which would be seen to provide better longer term value for investors, rather than just a quick ‘pump and dump’ share sale.

However, why not then take this further? Why not endow this SWF with a small stream of value from our energy assets, whether from fracking or from our now mature oil and gas fields? With this income stream you could then give the SWF a mandate for investment in UK business at all levels. Have we not heard the bleatings for a bank for small business (if you support the notion that SMEs are at the core of UK business)? Then here is your funded vehicle to enable this to take place.

So let’s have Royal Mail deliver something really valuable - not just letters and parcels, not just a share flotation, but a strategic investment structure for the UK and its citizens.

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Clubs Mondays

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Do you enjoy listening to show tunes, big band music, jazz, light classics etc?

Come along to an evening of live music played by top artistes. We meet on the second Monday of each month at our Banstead venue Banstead Organ & Keyboard Club Church Institute Hall, High Street, Banstead SM7 2NN 19th August – Michael McAneny Doors open 7pm for 7:30pm start.

(Visitors £7) Visitors & new members are always welcome to our concerts. Further details from 020 8330 5795, or visit www. bansteadorganclub.co.uk Worcester Parkers Women’s Institute meet on the 3rd Monday of every month 7.45pm to 9.45pm at Christchurch with St Philip Church Hall in Ruskin Drive, Worcester Park. For more information contact Dawn Penn 0208 337 4361 Email dawn.wicontact@gmail.com Cheam Common Art Group Small friendly Art Group who meet at CHRIST CHURCH with ST PHILIP Ruskin Road, Worcester Park on Monday evenings 7.30 – 9.30 p.m.

Welcome new members just to draw and paint in any medium without tuition.

If interested come down for an evening and meet us to see whether this is for you Phone Contact: Brenda Banks 020 8330 0928 Worcester Park Over 60’s Welcome Club meet every Monday from 1pm to 3pm at Christ Church with St Philip Church Hall in Ruskin Drive. Worcester Park.

All over 60’s welcome to join us for a cup of tea and a biscuit or two, plus some outstanding entertainment in the way of singers and musicians. One Monday a month we have Bingo and every Monday we run a raffle. Days outings to the coast are organised throughout the summer months, and mid week holidays are organised two or three times a year.

Come a little earlier and meet up with some friends and have a chat before the entertainment starts. We would love to see you. Contact Joyce on 020 8330 5065.

The ladies After Eight Club meet on the 2nd Monday of every month from 8pm onwards at Christchurch with St Philips church hall.

We have interesting speakers, outings and dinners and all are welcome for a small subscription to cover our costs.

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Please contact Carol on 020 8337 2452 for further information

Tuesdays

The Worcester Park Dramatic Society is a local amateur drama group of long standing. We stage two major productions a year at the Adrian Mann Theatre in Ewell, in April and November. We meet every Tuesday and most Fridays at 8.15 pm in the Elmcroft Community Centre in North Cheam, on the Sainsbury’s site. Apart from play readings, rehearsals and set construction, we have quiz nights and various social events. We also arrange group outings to amateur and professional theatre productions.

We welcome new members to help us stage future productions, anyone willing to act or work backstage.

If interested, please contact our membership secretary, Joyce Cranfield, on 020 8337 3317.

“Lunch Break” - a friendly lunch club for those retired, meeting weekly on a Tuesday 12-2pm (term time only) at Worcester Park Baptist Church, The Avenue - free, but donations invited.

Occasional speakers. Contact Brian on 020 8224 6675 or Rowena 07837 941298 NHS Retirement Fellowship- Local Branch Are you retired or about to retire from the NHS? Why not join us on the 1st Tuesday of every month from 10am -12 at Christ Church Hall, Christ Church Road, Surbiton, KT5 8JJ. We have speakers, activities, coffee & chat.Other outings & activities are also arranged during the month. For further details please contact Lorna on 020 8337 4121.

Worcester Park Crafters We meet on the first Tuesday of each month in the hall at Christchurch with St Philip, Ruskin Drive, Worcester park,KT4 8LG. We meet from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. For further details please contact Lynne by E mail: lynnesinger@ msn.com or phone on:020 8330 5903 Our aim is to provide a meeting/crafting place for all crafters whatever their craft or ability. Either bring your own work or purchase our kit of the month (small materials cost usually £2), come and play and chat. (small cost to over hall hire and insurance approx £4)

Wednesdays

Keep Fit Stay Fit every Wednesday 10.1511.15am at Christ Church with St Philip, Ruskin Road. Come along and give it a try ! For more information please call Jo Hamilton on 020 8786 3444.

The Probus Club of Ewell Coming up to retirement? Just retired?

Looking to make new friends? Why not join the Probus Club of Ewell? Since it was founded 41 years ago, the Probus Club of Ewell has been attracting businessmen from Worcester Park and its surrounding areas with a broad range of professional and business backgrounds. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month, usually at Bourne Hall in Ewell Village, for a Lunch followed by a Speaker. In addition to two Ladies Lunches during the year, there is an active social programme for members and their partners with visits to places of interest and West End Shows. If you would like to know more, please telephone our secretary, Ken Amess, on 020 8337 6241 or visit our website: www.ewell-probus.org.uk

Thursdays

East Surrey Family History Society For those who are interested in finding out how to investigate their family history the Sutton Branch of the East Surrey Family History Society holds meetings on the first Thursday of the month at St Nicholas Church Hall, Robin Hood Lane. Most months we have a professional speaker.

Further details of all our branch meetings, can be found at Our award winning website www.esfhs.org.uk 60+ Social Mixed Single Group We meet in a local pub every Thursday where we discuss outings for the weekends such as meal out, walking, theatre trips, cinemas and many other things. If you would like to join us please ring Maureen: 07761278661.

Kingston Phoenix Road Club is a cycling club that meets at 8-30pm every Thursday at Worcester Park Athlete Club, Green Lane, Worcester Park. The club was founded in 1936 and currently has a membership of 70. We cater for riders of all ages whether they are novices or experienced and our oldest rider is 84 years old who is still racing and holds several national age related records.

Malden Emergency First Aid Society (MEFAS) members meet every Thursday evening from 7.30 to 10pm. The public is invited to join members on short training

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courses. For further details please see MEFAS web site at http://e-voice.org.uk/mefas/ or telephone 020 8942 8653 or 07966661015 Breathe Easy (Merton & Sutton) Group.

Wheezy? Breathless? you are not alone, come and join us at your local friendly support & information group for anyone affected by a lung condition.

We meet between 2 - 4 pm on the 3rd. Thursday of every month at St Bedes Conference Centre, St Anthony’s Hospital, London Road, North Cheam. For more information please contact George on 0208 647 7530 or visit www.lunguk.org/ merton-sutton.

Fridays

Bartlett House Luncheon Club is a welcoming social club for the retired from work but not from life! Bartlett house, 49-51 The Avenue, Worcester Park,KT4 7HU Catch up with friends every Friday 11am-4pm Sit back and get that “Friday feeeling”with weekly entertainment! This fun and friendly club is not for profit ensuring prices are kept to a minimum so it won’t cost the earth!

New members welcome. No joining fee. Transport may be available. All you have to do is pop along and give us a try, we can guarantee that you will receive a warm welcome!

Contact us on 01372 720563 or 07807443156 Quest was set up in 1987 to provide a meeting place for people with physical disabilities between the ages of 20 - 60. However, once a member there is no age cut off. The aim of the club is to provide a welcoming, caring atmosphere for the members

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and allow the carers to have a regular break. Everyone pays an annual subscription. and we all pay £2.50 for our lunch, which is cooked on the premises. We have various social activities and every second month we have a speaker, outings can be arranged if enough people wish to go. The venue is St. Philip Hall, Christchurch with St. Philip, Ruskin Drive, Worcester Park.

We meet the 2nd and 4th Fridays in the month from 12.45 to 4p.m Contact June Day, Club Secretary, on 02083301220 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. Our speakers are of a high quality and we welcome anyone who has an interest in this area. 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. If you would like more information, please look at our website, www.rspb.org.uk/ groups/epsom

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Auriol Bowling Club was established in 1967, and plays on the 6-rink bowling green attached to the pavilion in Auriol Park, Salisbury Road, Worcester Park. It is a mixed club of around 45 men and 25 women, who play outdoors from April to September, with a busy fixture list of league and friendly matches against other clubs, as well as internal club competitions. For further information please contact the club Secretary, David Regan, on 020 8337 8919 or visit the website at www.auriolbowlingclub.com.

Cuddington Bowls Club is looking for new members. We play on the green in Cuddington Park, Sandringham Road, Worcester Park. It is a 6 rink green For further information please call our Secretary Mike Ridley 02087158326 or Treasurer Mark Broughton 02083379699 Social Dancing With “ Glitters” At Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell Village 8.15 pm – 11.00 pm Entrance £8 Over 18’s All standards Bar & Free parking & Professional D J We may not have Brucie but we do have a glitter ball!

Dance Dates for 2013: and 17th/June 7th and 21st/July 5th 1940s theme night - just in case people want to come dressed up in clothes for that era. and 19th/August 2nd and 16th/ September 6th and 20th/October 4th and 18th/November 1st and 15th/December 13th CALL 07903 314276 National Trust - Epsom, Ewell and District Supporters GroupFormed in 1971, we run a varied programme of social eventswhich includes Evening Lectures at Bourne Hall in Ewell, once a month from Oct. to June, Coach Outings which visit historichouses and gardens(not necessarily N.T.),Guided London Walks, and other trips to London e.g.The Magic Circle, The Royal Opera House (backstage tour).Other special events include Coffee Mornings, Holidays and Christmas Lunch.

Newsletters are produced four times a year.If you would like more information please visit our website: www.epsom-ewell-district-nt.co.uk or telephone Paul on 020 87158486 Malden Manor Bowls Club Where: Manor Park, Malden Road.

New members will be made very welcome. Roll ups, league matches, internal and external competition; we offer bowling for all levels of interest and ability. Contact Men’s Secretary John: 020 8337 0084 or Ladies Secretary Pat: 020 8544 9704

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Hot Favourites

by Pippa Greenwood Our summer weather isn’t usually unbearably warm; in fact it is often pretty cool and a little bit of extra heat would be very welcome. With a little bit of planning and some careful planting, you could turn your garden into the hottest site out, regardless of the real weather. You can plant to create a mass of hot colours. All you have to do is plant beds, borders or containers full of hot reds, screaming yellows and glowing oranges. True, most of the planting is best done in the autumn, but a visit to a garden centre at this time of year will reveal a fabulous display of plants which can be put to good use in your garden now.

For real energy and vibrancy, choose plenty of yellows and golds, including some of the golden rods (Solidago), which should be flowering well into September.

I am a great fan of coreopsis, including the various forms of Coreopsis verticillata, which flowers well into the autumn and is unlikely to need staking.

If you like to see flat looking flower heads in your garden then take a closer peep at some of the achilleas, including ‘Coronation Gold’.

No late summer border is complete without the cone flowers or rudbekias with their deliciously bright, daisylike flowers - these should last you through October.

For some screaming scarlets and other shades of red, consider growing the dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’, Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, Lychnis chalcedonica.

In damper areas you could use Lobelia ‘Queen Victoria’ or many of the other moisture-loving types of lobelia which produce huge spires of red flowers, so different from those tiny blue, pink and white bedding lobelias which are more widely grown.

To make sure that your summer time plantings do well, take heed of the following tips: • If it’s a hot day, try to plant in early evening or at least late afternoon when the main heat of the sun has died down.

• Always make sure that plants are really well watered before you put them in the ground.

• Soak the compost thoroughly and make sure that it’s wetted right to the base before you begin.

• Incorporate plenty of bulky organic matter, such

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as garden compost, well-rotted manure or some proprietary compost from your garden centre, as this will help to retain moisture.

• Once the plants are in position, water them in thoroughly - the water needs to go right down to where the plant needs it, at its roots.

• Once the soil is moist, apply a good, deep mulch of 2–3 inches (5–7.5 cm), all around the soil surface. This will help to keep moisture in, protect the plant roots from the heat of the sun and at the same time keep weeds at bay.

Don’t forget to tend to your hot border again in the autumn, when you will find small versions of many of these plants readily available in garden centres, often at only a couple of pounds per pot and when you will also be able to plant some more warming oranges and reds using bulbs and corms.

Visit Pippa’s website www. pippagreenwood.com for her ‘Winter thru’ Spring’ vegetable collection, great plants for September planting and regular advice emails from Pippa. Buy a great range of gardening products including Nemasys caterpillar, slug, ant and other biological controls, Enviromesh and Envirofleece. VVoice

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Cooking Your Spanish

At last, a different way to learn a language We all have always found difficult learning another language: the grammar, the pronunciation, vocabulary... and what about understanding the native speakers?

Cooking Your Spanish teaches you Spanish at the same time you prepare tapas - learn and practise your Spanish meanwhile you are having fun! As simple as that...we focus on conversation and you learn how to prepare new delicious tapas every time. You have such fun that you don’t feel stressed about learning the language and by feeling good in a relaxed atmosphere, you will remember what you are learning week by week.

We cover daily real situations you would be involved with when visiting a Spanish speaking country: using public transportation, meeting people, at the hotel, visiting a doctor, ordering in a restaurant, going to museums, shopping and more.

Using a kitchen environment as a vehicle, you will learn Spanish through all your senses and prepare three new

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tapas per lesson, getting to know the history of the tapa or its ingredients.

Did you know that “chimichurri”, the famous Argentinian dressing, comes from an Irish trader named “Jimmy Curry”?

The Argentineans’ imagination and pronunciation did the rest...or, did you also know that serving a tapa with every glass of wine was mandatory in Medieval Spain to prevent people getting drunk?

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SPANISH & TAPAS Learn Spanish while preparing tapas Our groups are for up to 8 students. We are offering two courses this Autumn in Worcester Park: - Beginner: Mondays from 23 Sep to 11 Nov, 7pm to 8.30pm - Intermediate: Wednesdays from 25 Sep to 13 Nov, 7pm to 8.30pm Come and join us at our “taste” open days on 19 August or 11 September at Fitzroy House, suite 12. We’ll be at our cozy “kitchen”, so book your fee place and pop in to find out more information and how to register.

Visit our facebook page at cookingyourspanish or contact us at cookingyouspanish@gmail.com or on 07503 727320

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Courses start in September 2013 Beginner: Mondays, 23 Sep - 11 Nov (8 weeks) Intermediate: Wednesdays, 25 Sep - 13 Nov (8 weeks) Time: 7pm to 8.30pm Fee: £199 (food and kitchen utensils included!

Payable by instalments Location: Fitzroy House, (opposite Barclays) Worcester Park Come and join us at our “taste” open days on: 19 Aug or 11 Sep Book your free place at: cookingyourspanish@gmail.com T: 07503 727320

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Voice for Wildlife

by Carol Williams

Bee-ing bats about wildlife

Bees.

The EU has recently voted for a temporary ban on 3 of the 5 pesticides (neonicotinoids) linked to bee decline.

This is good news, although it is only one of the many and complex reasons why we are losing so many of our bees - 20 species gone since 1900, and 35 more under serious threat. Intensive farming and urban development are significant factors, because they destroy habitat. Organic farming is much more ‘bee friendly’ and it would be good if local Councils could give some thought to where bee habitat could be created in public open spaces and along roadsides.

Friends of the Earth are offering Bee Saver Kits visit foe.co.uk/bees or ring 0800 581 051 (Mon- Fri) for details. Many charities, and some companies, like Waitrose, B&Q and the Co-Op are working with Friends of the Earth on a campaign for more bee friendly practices.

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Leaving ‘wilderness areas’ or sowing meadow flowers in parks, churchyards, gardens, schools and so on would help a great deal. Even a very small patch would be of huge benefit, such as a window box or patio pots.

Recently, on a sunny afternoon spent strolling along the South Bank of the Thames, I saw a very large number of honey bees in a lavender patch - the most I have seen in a very long while. I stood for many moments enjoying the sight and sound of these busy little insects, something that was once a common feature of Summers and now is so rare. I had a similar

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experience the week before in Greewich, spotting bees in the long grasses and wildflowers that seem to be being encouraged around and about the parklands there - all encouraging trends.

Bats.

We have 17 species of bat in the UK, with the smallest and most common being the Pipistrelle, and the largest being the Greater Mouse Eared (about the size of the palm of a hand).

A single Pipistrelle can eat up to 3,000 insects in one night! They range over a variety of habitats, from woodland to suburban parks and gardens, beginning to fly about 20 minutes after sunset. Flies, midges and mosquitoes make up most of their diet.

Good bat habitat contains water, trees and long grass - places where insects abound.

About 25% of bat species worldwide are under threat of extinction, again, mainly through habitat loss.

The key to a good habitat for a range of animals is insect life. And, for insects to thrive, you need water and a variety of flowering plants.

This is what we are trying to create in Shadbolt Park, in and around the pond. As I write, it is abundant with insect life, birds and young amphibians and, I hope, bats, although, with the park locked after sunset, we

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A bat survey a few years ago, before we built the pond, yielded evidence of Pipistrelles, so, hopefully, with increased insect life, due to the water and long grass, they are thriving there.

Insects and plants are the most important life forms on this planet.

Without them, nothing else could live. They support the entire web of life as we know it.

When I stand and look out across the water of Shadbolt Park pond, and see how quickly Nature has responded to the opportunity we offered there, I feel hopeful, because I know that even the tiniest encouragement will bring plentiful rewards. Just by planting a tree or hedge or sowing wildflowers or leaving a patch of grass unmown, we can improve the biodiversity of an area in a very short time.

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There’s lots going on for pre-schoolers in Worcester Park (term time only) Monday

Worcester Park Baptist Church 9.30-11.30- a lively toddler group, where carers of any kind are welcome to attend and supervise their youngsters. Our age range is from young babies to 3-4 years. Sarah on 020 8393 7299 or email via the church’s website www.wpbc.org.uk Christ Church with St Philip Parent and Toddler Group is a very welcoming and relaxed place to meet new friends for yourself and your toddlers. We are open to all Mums, Dads, Grandparents and Carers. We meet in the Church Hall on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9.30 until 11.15am during term time

Worcester Park Baptist Church 9.30-11.30- see Monday. we have vacancies on a Wednesday

Friday

Christ Church with St Philip Parent and Toddler Group 9.30 until 11.15am - see Monday St. Mary’s Parent and Toddler Group meets 10.00 11.30am in the Parish Centre. Families enjoy making new friends in a relaxed atmosphere, while their children play safely. Ladies from St. Mary’s Mothers’ Union serve refreshments during the morning for both adults and children. Feel free to pop in and check us out any Friday morning during term time; you can be sure of a warm welcome. For more information, please contact the Parish Office tel: 020 8337 4026

Saturday

Tuesday

Men behaving Dadly, Grace Church - every 3rd Saturday of the month, 9.30 to 11 am, at Green Lane Primary School.

For Dads and their pre-school children (0-4). The kids get to play with the toys, the Dads get a bacon roll and coffee, and Mums might possibly get a lie-in... £3 on the door. For more information & contact details, www.gracechurchworcesterpark.org

Wednesday

Old Malden Library (Church Road, Worcester Park) Tuesdays, 10.30-11am, Rhyme time aimed at age 0-3 Tuesdays, 2.30-3pm, Story time aimed at age 3+WPLife

Toddling2Church, Christ Church with St Philip 2-3pm Parents, carers and pre-school children are all welcome to join us for songs with percussion instruments, a Bible story simply and sensitively told, a story-related craft activity and, of course, drinks and biscuits.

Christ Church with St Philip Parent and Toddler Group 9.30 until 11.15am - see Monday

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MUSIC CLASSES FOR BABIES & TODDLERS AGED 6 MONTHS – 3 YEARS Taught by a qualified Suzuki-method music teacher.

New Tuesday class from 16 April At Cheam library

Every Thursday, At Worcester Park Library

9.45am Baby class 10.30am Toddler class

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Toddler class Toddler class 2yr+ Baby class

 £30 for a block of 6 classes, which can be used in an 8-week period.  Drop in fee: £7 subject to availability

To book your place please contact Ginger on 07525 497 124 or email infomusicfun@gmail.com www.gingersmusicfun.com

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Kids

Keep their brain active over the summer holidays A child’s summer holidays are often jam-packed with energetic activities including bike rides, swimming, dancing and football. But it is just as important to keep their mind active over the holidays as it is their bodies. Ensuring they continue educational activities throughout can mean they are confident, equipped and ready to tackle new work when they go back to school.

Established for over 50 years, daily study of the Kumon programmes can make all the difference when it comes to keeping the brain active between school terms, as well as throughout the year. As a new school term approaches, it’s especially important that your child gets to grips with the core subjects of maths and English, as well as the vital learning skills which can take students beyond their school level.

At Kumon, learning is always for the long run: the individualised programmes enable students to

progress to an advanced level, at their own pace, ensuring they maximise their ability and begin to realise their unlimited potential.

Through the maths and English programmes, Kumon will nurture your child’s independent study skills, so they can apply this approach to all subjects and outside of school too. Kumon develops children through the acquisition of independent learning skills, rather than teaching in the conventional sense. Your child will therefore be equipped with the ability to learn for themselves so they do not become dependent on – or limited by – the skills and knowledge of others.

Your child will initially start at a comfortable level, with a focus on building a strong foundation in the way they study; they will develop invaluable study skills such as concentration, pace and rhythm, before progressing to more advanced work. The summer holidays provide an ideal opportunity for your child to settle into their new routine of daily Kumon study, before getting off to a flying start in the new school year.

Jessica Grante at the Stoneleigh study centre, says, “Most children attend school for just 190 days in the year, with the summer holiday manifesting as an approximately 45 consecutive day break in learning and routine. This is a potentially dangerous time for noticeable relapses in those gains steadily reinforced throughout the Autumn, Spring & Summer terms, with students often presenting in September with a lower National Curriculum attainment level than that which they ended the previous academic year! Such relapses can be avoided by maintaining a daily study habit at a ‘just right’level, i.e. achievable at a slight stretch, as afforded by the Kumon individualised maths & English study programmes.”

Kumon Educational is the UK’s/Ireland’s largest supplementary education provider, with more than 69,000 students studying at 680 study centres. The Stoneleigh Study Centre is located at the 4th Ewell (Nonsuch) Scout Hall, Bluegates off London Road, KT172SA with classes running on Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the summer holiday For more information, or to book a Free Assessment, contact Jessica Grante on 020 8330 6195 or email Stoneleigh@kumoncentre.co.uk WPLife

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I am a counsellor/psychotherapist based in Worcester Park and hold a Human Givens Diploma (with merit).

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Local Markets

Cheam Village Friday Market Small indoor market with 28 stalls held in Cheam Parochial Rooms, The Broadway, Cheam Village, Surrey.

Helping the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Market Days: Friday North Cheam Farmers’ Market – 3rd Saturday of every month, 9.30am-1.30pm, North Cheam Crossroads outside the Post Office, KT4 8SG. Worcester Park Local Produce and Craft Market – Sat 6th July, Sat 5th October and Sun 1st December, 10am-4pm, Central Road Sutton Local Produce and Craft Market, Sat 29th June, Sat 28th September and Sat 30th November, 10am-4pm, Town Square, Sutton High Street Market on the Square 1st Saturday of the month Georges Square (by New Malden Train Station) 9am to 2pm Surbiton Farmers Market Maple Road 3rdSaturday of the month 9am-1pm

BBC2 has a season on Tudor history; the V & A has an exhibition of Tudor Art and Buckingham Palace is showing portraits exploring Tudor fashion. The local resident, however, does not need to travel to London to appreciate some of Tudor history. An amazing model of the original Nonsuch Palace, built by Henry VIII to celebrate the birth of his son Edward – so important to the Tudor dynasty – is on view every Sunday 2 – 5 p.m. in the Gallery of the Mansion, Service Wing entrance, Nonsuch Park. The site is marked on the Northern side of the Park by three tall pillars which now stand as the only physical evidence of this amazing building.

They are as three sentries guarding a bygone age.

In addition, a unique and important collection of stained glass amassed by Samuel Farmer, owner of the present Mansion in the early 1800’s, features one particular panel commemorating the marriage of Jane Seymour to Henry VIII – only 11 days after the execution of Anne Boleyn! These are just a few of the treasures on view in the Nonsuch Mansion Service Wing Museum open on Nonsuch News “National media focus on the Tudors/local 2nd & 4th Sundays in the month (9th and interest in Tudor history on our doorstep in 23rd) 2 – 5 p.m. Combined entry to Gallery & Nonsuch Park.

Museum £3.00, Concessions £2.00.

Friends of Nonsuch Members & Children under 16 free. Entry only to Gallery £2.50. Last entry 4.30 p.m. www.friendsofnonsuch.co.uk”

Bourne Hall Museum

Aug 1 Ancient Warfare In the morning meet a Greek soldier and in the afternoon one from the Roman army Discover how the armies, weapons and fighting differed 11am to 12.30pm Greeks and 2pm to 3.30pm Roman £4 per session £7 for both Aug 6 Rockman Returns learn about the history of the Earth, Fossils and Dinosaurs 11am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 3.30pm morning session learn about the history of the Earth, rocks and stones and in the afternoon Discover Dinosaurs unearth amazing secrets about these terrible lizards. £4 per session or £7 for both Aug 15 Meet the Saxon King Raedwald from Sutton Hoo. Who

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returns to this world to share the secrets of his tomb and what life was like in 7th Century England Two different sessions 11am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 3.30pm £4 per session £7 for both.

Aug 22 Myths Day Discover British and Greek Myths stories that have been passed down over hundreds of years. Tales of King Arthur and the Troy, of great deeds and monsters and bring them up to date by composing your own myth rap.

Morning 11am to 12.30 pm British myths. Greek myths 2pm to 3.30 pm £4 per session £7 for both.

Aug 29th Take Aim. Fire! Discover what life was like during the 18th century in the army of King George. Take the Kings shilling. All recruits will get the chance to fire a musket! Two sessions 11am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 3.30pm £4 per session.

Sept 14 meet Queen Elizabeth 1 who pays Ewell and her palace at Nonsuch a visit hear of her life, court and what it was like the be one of Britain’s greatest monarchs 1pm to 2.30pm £4 per child There will be also Family Walks which will start at 2pm and take about hour and a half. These walks will be limited to 25 people so please book should they become full; we will try to hold a second one £4 per person.

Horrible Ewell, 31 July Horrible Epsom 7 August Nonsuch Park and Palace 13 August Hidden Ewell 14 August Epsom Common and Manor Park 21 August Ashley Road Cemetery 27 August Horrible Ewell 28 August More details contact dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk or phone 020 8394 1734 Free brass rubbing will be available in the Museum Gallery during the Summer Holidays Sept 14 Meet Queen Elizabeth1 1pm to 2.30pm Museum Kids Club

Kingston events

Every Thursday to August 29th: Thumbs Up It’s Thursday Kingston is serving up six weeks of low cost and free activities for children aged two to 11 years in the town centre this summer. Every Thursday the town is running Thumbs Up It’s Thursday when children can enjoy activities including: arts and craft workshops, magicians shows, storytelling sessions and free family swims at 12 venues across the town.

Each venue of the participating venues, which range from shopping centres to the Kingston Museum and Memorial Gardens, has designed a day of fun and activity, with the theme changing every week ranging from “Magical Moments” to “Monsters and Martians”, “Air, Land and Sea” and “Animal Antics”. Most activities don’t require advance booking, so children from the local area, London and beyond, can turn up with their parents and enjoy a day of educational and playful summer fun.

Families will be encouraged to visit each of the participating venues with a special map and to get the map stamped at each place. Once they have finished the trail they will be awarded a certificate if they take their completed programme to the Kingston Museum. For more information go to:www. kingstonfirst.co.uk/tuit2013 4th August: RideLondon-Surrey Classic RideLondon is a new world-class annual cycling festival taking place over two days – 3rd and 4th August. The race on the 4th Starts at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London

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and finishes on The Mall in central London, the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic is a variation on the London 2012 Olympic Road Cycling Race route and will see around 150 of the world’s top cyclists competing in a fantastic race day.

The historic town of Kingston Upon Thames is putting on an action-packed day of family-fun and entertainment including: an Urban and Vintage Bike Fair, cycle club stalls, carousels, a mini train track and a Food and Craft Market. Kingston is the only place where spectators will get to view the race twice.

For more information see:www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/ Prudential_RideLondon___Events/Prucential_RideLondonSurrey___Classic.htm 3rd – 11th August: Kingston Food Festival The annual Kingston Food Festival features plenty to get the taste buds tingling including: food trails, a restaurant week, the Big Kingston Market, a cocktail bus, Children’s Food Festival, food challenges and a Live Food show. The event showcases the best from growers and producers across Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire, featuring local restaurateurs, local drinks and plenty of tasting opportunities. For more information visit:www.kingstonfoodfestival.com September 31st August and 1st September: Minima Regatta In the heart of Kingston, the Minima Yacht Club plays host to an annual regatta that sees local sailors pit their skills against visiting clubs, sailing between Kingston Bridge and Raven’s Ait. Spectators can enjoy the action from the shore with plenty of races to take in and a chance to visit the Minima Yacht Club and enjoy the brilliant views down the Thames. For more information visit: www.minimayc.co.uk 1st September: Kingston Carnival Legend of the UK reggae scene David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan is coming to headline Kingston’s 2013 Carnival. With over 50 years of reggae and DJing experience, David brings his unique show to Kingston’s historic Market Place.

The theme of this year’s carnival is: Different Communities, Many Cultures ONE Kingston. In addition, to David ‘Ram Jam”, the Carnival offers dancing, stalls and delicious food as well as a parade featuring the cream of London’s Mas bands fresh from their performance at Notting Hill Carnival.

12th – 15th September: Heritage Open Weekend Heritage Open Days Weekend takes place in September and sees buildings of historical significance opened up for the public to visit free of charge. In Kingston, over thirty buildings will be available to visit, ranging from churches to cellars and Kingston Council’s Grade II listed Guildhall.

Full details of the properties open during the weekend will be available from mid-July by visiting: www.heritageopendays.org.uk/directory

Rose Theatre Kingston

24-26 High Street, Kingston, KT1 1HL, Box Office: 08444 821 556 (bkg fee) www.rosetheatrekingston.org (bkg fee) Thu 1 Aug - Sun 4 Aug - Aliens Love Underpants - This zany, hilarious tale based on the best-selling children’s book is delightfully brought to life on stage for the very first time. With stunning effects, madcap action, original music (and lots of aliens of course!) this fantastically fresh and funny production will delight the whole family.

Thu 29 Aug to Sun 1 Sep - Youth Music Theatre - Great Expectations A classic coming-of-age tale of crime, social class and ambition, Please remember to mention Worcester Park Life when you speak to our advertisers

written by one of the greatest 19th century novelists, Charles Dickens. Now adapted as an imaginative musical with lots of humour in which we see Victorian society through the eyes of Pip, our hero

Richmond Theatre

The Green Richmond, Surrey TW9 1QJ 0844 871 7627 The Pitmen Painters Mon 5 – Sat 10 Aug Mon – Sat eves 7.30pm, Wed & Sat mats 2.30pm Tickets: £11.90 – £32.40 ATG Theatre Card: Half price Mon eve, £5 off Tue – Fri eves & Sat Mat Following sell out seasons at the National Theatre, on Broadway and in the West End, Bill Kenwright presents the award-winning play The Pitmen Painters.

Written by Lee Hall, creator of the worldwide sensation Billy Elliot, The Pitmen Painters has received huge critical acclaim and won the Evening Standard award for Best New Play.

In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favour of practice, the pitmen began to paint. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends and their work was acquired by prestigious collections; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine. Examining the lives of a group of ordinary men who do extraordinary things, The Pitmen Painters is a humorous, deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics.

‘Breathtaking’ The Guardian ‘A beautiful work of art that everybody should see’ The Times Creative Learning: Richmond Theatre & Libraries Poetry Group Tue 27 Aug

10.30am – 12 noon Free, all welcome For anyone who enjoys reading poems join us each month in the stalls bar.

Musical Theatre Summer School: Virtues vs. Sins- Let Battle Commence!

Mon 12 – Fri 16 Aug Ages 8 – 11 and 12 – 16 years £125 (second sibling discount £100) Join us for a week of exciting, creative workshops culminating in a musical theatre battle on stage between two groups. Will Virtues or Sins triumph? The audience will decide!

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Summer Holiday TheatreLab “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” 12 Aug - 16 Aug ‘Workshop and Stage’ in 5 days (Aged 9-15) Join Pull the Other’s theatre professionals for their 5 day “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” that introduces Shakespeare’s magical story in a fun fuelled, highly energised and imaginative environment. Act, direct, meet new friends, learn about making a play and create a work-in-progress performance for your friends and family. WPLife

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Safer Neighbourhoods

by PCSO Gary Weaving

The local policing model The MPS is changing how we operate in your community to ensure that we provide you with a more effective and consistent police service wherever you live in London.

Our Safer Neighbourhoods Teams (SNTs) will be the foundation of how we deliver local policing and we are transferring 2,600 officers into SNTs from other MPS units to support these changes. These enlarged SNTs will adopt a broader role in cutting crime, supporting victims and tackling offending. Your SNT will be available seven days a week, as well as evenings and will be at the heart of directly addressing the majority of crimes and incidents that concern your community. Each SNT will be led by a Neighbourhood Inspector who will be responsible for all local policing matters. SNTs will continue to provide a recognisable presence in the community and each ward will have a dedicated, named police officer and a dedicated police community support officer who will work exclusively within that ward addressing priorities identified by those living and working within the ward. In Worcester Park these will be PC Luke Lazell & PCSO Gary Weaving.

In Nonsuch these will be PC Richard Haining & PCSO Wendy Stephens.

Additional police constables, police community support officers, special constables and volunteers will also work across a ward providing extra support in addressing local concerns. For the residents of Worcester Park and Nonsuch Wards (Sutton Borough), that means each ward will have 1 Police Sergeant, 3 Police Constables, 2 Special Constables and 2 Police Community Support Officers.

However these extra officers, unlike the dedicated officers, will, when required, work across other neighbouring wards on the borough. This ensures we are putting our resources in the right place at the right time to address any concerns as they arise. Additionally all secondary schools that wish to have one will be provided with a Safer Schools Officer to work closely with teachers and pupils on a range of priorities affecting young people. Whilst on the subject of personnel, your new Police Sergeant is Colin Buchan. We are pleased to welcome him from Sutton North ward with his wealth of experience. Not only has Colin been a Traffic Officer, but in his 2 years as Sgt at Sutton North ward his team achieved a 27% reduction in ‘Total Notifiable Crimes’ and a huge 60% reduction in ‘Anti Social Behaviour’.

SNTs will work closely with and draw assistance from other borough based officers including: 1. Emergency response and patrol teams; who will respond to urgent calls and disorder as well as undertaking targeted patrols to prevent crime 2. CID teams; who will investigate serious crimes 3. Community Safety Units; who will address issues such as hate crime and domestic violence 4. Uniformed tasking teams; who will undertake proactive operations to reduce crime and preserve public order.

Each borough will continue to be led by a Borough Commander of either Chief Superintendent or

Superintendent rank. Borough Commanders will work closely with their local community to ensure that local policing reflects and meets the needs of the community.

Your local borough team are a part of a wider MPS presence in your community. In addition there are a large number of MPS officers, in specialist units, who provide support to you and your community whenever required.

Your Neighbourhood Inspector and Borough Commander will call upon the support of these specialist units, whenever required, to ensure that we provide the most effective possible response to any situation. Boroughs are also supported by the ability to know where our resources are at all times and be able to send them where they are needed, and by a range of behind the scenes teams such as human resources, intelligence gathering, training and other key supporting functions.

Sutton Borough’s SNT’s are divided into ‘cluster’s’, meaning that if your team is on a Rest Day you will still be able to make contact with someone should you have a concern. The Worcester Park & Nonsuch contact details remain the same.

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Events

22nd Carshalton Environmental Fair The Environmental Fair returns to Carshalton Park, Ruskin Road, Carshalton on Bank Holiday Monday 26th August from 10.30 am to 8.00pm.

This very popular event attracts about 10,000 visitors every year. It is one of South London’s best days out.

There will be over 100 stalls including local craft, farmers’ market stalls, interactive demonstrations, voluntary groups and local sustainability initiatives. We also have a healing area which demonstrates therapies and offers treatments. Children’s activities include: cycle obstacle courses; face painting; t-shirt painting, circus skills; crafts and other games.

The Fair offers a range of local artistic talent including; the Main Stage which showcases local rock, pop and young bands; the Music Café with acoustic folk, blues, country and more; and The Performing Arts Marquee which entertains with an eclectic selection of local artists and speakers.

The fair boasts a great range of tasty catering from Spanish paella, French crepes and Caribbean food, to organic curry, Thai noodles and fair trade coffee. The bar will be back with a range of real ales. Or relax at the Music Café with a cup of tea and slice of home made cake baked by the Women’s Institute.

It’s a really affordable day out. Children under 12 get FREE entrance, Adults are £4 and concessions (including OAPs and under 16s) £2. A special free bus service will bring you to the fair from all parts of the

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borough, so you can stay all day and take the bus home. Bus maps and timetables will be available before the event at local libraries and www.envfair.org.uk There are parking restrictions in the surrounding roads and we only have very limited parking onsite for those with disabilities who have blue badges. Or come by bike and bring a lock for the cycle parking area where Dr Bike will check your bike over.

The event is organised by EcoLocal, a Carshalton based charity, which runs the fair with the help of many volunteers. If you would like to help as a volunteer steward at the fair we will give you free fair entry and refreshments as well as a great day out!

For further information visit www.envfair.org.uk facebook/envfair twitter@envfair Enquiries email: fair@ecolocal.org.uk or t elephone 020 8770 6611 WPLife

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