Tadworth & Walton Tribune May 2017

The Tadworth & Walton

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ISSUE No. 4 - MAY 2017

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SIGNS OF A HEALTHY COMMUNITY pring is here and there is plenty of good news in Tadworth and Walton!

Firstly, there is the famous Walton on the Hill Pageant being held on Saturday 20th May with a theme of London Underground Stations. This is a great event for the area and raises lots of money for good causes. See page 20 on how to donate raffle prizes and to read about Diabetes UK (Surrey Downs group) who are one of the main beneficiaries of the money raised.

Secondly, just as we go to press we have heard that the Friends of St Peter’s has had a big boost by being chosen by the Co-operative Local Community Fund who will give 1% of everything their members

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spend on Co-op branded products over the next six months to the benefit of ‘Friends’. Go to page 18 to see how you can register and support the campaign at no cost to yourself.

Lastly, I am delighted to report that the Tadworth & Walton Tribune has now been published for a whole year and I would like to thank all the many contributors and advertisers for their unstinting support throughout this time. The magazine is only as strong as the community it represents and so the fact that this is the biggest issue to date is a very good sign that the health of the community is alive and kicking!

Richard Milbourn, Editor Email: richard.milbourn@carnah.co.uk

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TADWORTH & WALTON RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

BALANCING THE EQUATION he stated aim of the Association is the preservation of the quality of all aspects of our environment. The pressures on us to achieve this seem to have increased enormously over the last few years. We are of course, victims of our own success: Tadworth and Walton are highly desirable places in which to live, for all the reasons with which we are very familiar! As a consequence for example, demand by developers for building land is higher than ever, while our local Council has its own housing targets to achieve. Increased levels of housing put greater demands on our infrastructure presenting further challenges.

Another example is prevention of incursion into the Green Belt. Balancing this equation without being overtly NIMBY is not easy and so, importantly, we’d like to know how well or otherwise you think we’re doing. Your opportunity to tell us will be at our AGM to be held on Tuesday 23rd May at Chinthurst School beginning at 7.30pm (doors open at 7.00pm). If you’re not already a member, you’ll be able to join at the door.

Many Thanks, Michael Our County Councillor, Michael Gosling, is standing down as our Surrey County Councillor in May, after representing Tadworth, Walton, Kingswood and Burgh Heath for 12 years. Apart from holding several key positions in the Cabinet, Michael has always been a first rate local Councillor, taking a keen interest in local affairs. He has attended and arranged public meetings, spoken with key Surrey officers and councillors on our behalf and attended our monthly committee meetings as and when requested.

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Councillor Michael Gosling.

As far as our ward is concerned, he has helped with efforts to solve the intractable parking and congestion problems. He has listened to our suggestions on new Traffic Regulation Orders, and has tried to help overcome the congestion problems in Walton and around Tadworth Primary School.

In the last couple of years we have been most grateful for his efforts in getting the County highways officers to agree that we could plant trees in the grass verges, without using the expensive Surrey contractor and also for his financial support, through his Member Allocation Grant. Without this money, we would have far fewer new trees.

Our Committee will miss Michael’s help, advice and support.

We would like to take this opportunity to say a big THANKYOU for everything he has done for the local community and wish him and his family well for the future.

Planning - Walton on the Hill First the good news, following Alanna Coombes’ move from the area, we now have C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 6

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a new volunteer – Jayne Nallen - to monitor the planning applications for Walton. Jayne can be contacted via jayneandkevin@hotmail.com.

Current concerns relate to the likely development of the Bramley School site, and the land at’ Kitlands’ at the junction of Hurst Drive and Chequers Lane.

Bramley School As is widely known, Bramley School is to close in July. This is both a shock and a loss to the local community. It appears unlikely that the site will remain in educational use. In addition to the site of the school itself, there is a strip of land at the rear which is in the Green Belt and currently used for sports activities linked to the school. If developed, despite its Green Belt designation, this strip could affect the amenities of dwellings in Chequers Lane which back on to it.

‘Kitlands’ The other large site which will come up for development is Kitlands, at the junction of Hurst Drive and Chequers Lane. This is a large site which is located in the Residential Area of Special Character where the policy emphasis is on generous spacing between buildings with generous tree cover and spacious gardens, (although in recent years, this policy has not always been strictly adhered to). Unfortunately a number of trees and hedging on the site have been felled or badly pruned and Council officers are currently examining whether any had tree preservation order protection and the implications of the damage. Certainly the site currently looks very unsightly both from Hurst Drive and Chequers Lane.

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more information is available, we will consult our membership or organise a public meeting.

‘Frith Park’ Residents have complained about the amount of demolition which has taken place to the Mansion, which is locally listed and which we originally understood was to be retained and converted into flats. We are aware now that the side and rear external walls were built more recently. The brick walls and rusting integral metal work were deemed unsafe, and have now been removed. Only a portion of the front elevation will be preserved.

Other applications We objected to an application for a new garage block at ‘Lavington’, Heath Drive, which has been refused and also to an application for two dwellings at ‘Thickets’, on the Dorking Road, and a dwelling next to ‘Rose Cottage’, Chequers Lane which have also been refused by the Council. As yet, there are no appeals.

We objected to an application for the rebuilding of 2 Hernbrook, Chequers Lane, involving revised plans, and this has yet to be determined.

Tadworth Compared with Walton, there have been comparatively few significant applications in Tadworth over the last few months. We objected to an application for a new dwelling at 1, Epsom Lane North. This was refused but another application has recently been submitted which is also unsatisfactory in our opinion. A second application has also been submitted for a new dwelling between Pinewood and Millford , on the Dorking Road, following an earlier refusal. This has also recently been refused.

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The saga of 22, Downs Way, where a dwelling has been constructed which is much larger than shown on the approved plans, continues. The Council has put a stop notice on the site so no further work can be carried out at present. Revised plans have recently been submitted, showing a reduction in roof height. Your Committee has not yet had an opportunity to consider the revisions.

Planning permission has been given to internal alterations to Station Buildings, involving also a mezzanine floor, following an application to change the use of the property to restaurant. It would appear that builders are now once again on site. We welcome the active use of the building but are aware of concerns about the impact on street parking provision in the area.

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Preston Although Preston is the adjoining ward to ours, what happens there affects residents in Tadworth and Walton because of pressures on the infrastructure. We have recently expressed concern at the increase in the number of dwellings now proposed on the former Surrey County Council owned De Burgh playing fields. Planning permission was originally given for 180 dwellings. This was then increased by six to take in some of the land which contributed to the setting of Marbles Pond and more recently an application has been submitted for 229 dwellings. Apart from resulting in a more cramped layout, the development would increase pressures on the local road network and medical facilities, particularly as 130 dwellings are already under construction on land near the leisure centre.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

WALTON HEATH GOLF CLUB ssue 3 of the Tadworth & Walton Tribune dated February 2017 contains contributions by the Tadworth & Walton Residents Association from Clive Elcome, Chairman and Gillian Hein about the Planning Process.

These contributions include references to Walton Heath Golf Club which are incorrect. The references relate to a ...”possible new club house on the south side of the Dorking Road. This is being mooted despite reassurances given to the Inspector at a recent public inquiry (into the Golf Club’s application to de-register part of Beecham’s Field) that this option was in no way part of their future development strategy.”

No such reassurances were given to the Inspector about the Club’s future development plans.

The evidence I gave to the Inspector about future development was succinct, is on the Public Record and was: “Future Development Concerns were expressed at the consultative meeting held at the Club on 5th January 2013 and in some letters sent to the Planning Inspectorate that the Club was planning to move the Clubhouse across the Dorking Road.

I said at the meeting that this proposal was self standing and was about improving the Club’s practice facilities and the health and safety position vis-a-vis golf on that part of

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Beecham’s Field.

As far as the location of the clubhouse is concerned this has not been discussed by our Members since the 1980’s. The Board of WHGC has no plans to move the clubhouse.”

If there is any inference in Mr Elcome’s comments that the Inspector was misled by my evidence that too would be incorrect.

The Inspector addresses this point in his decision letter (Application Decision Com 491) in paragraph 50 and stated “Some objectors expressed mistrust of the ultimate aims of WHGC in applying for the exchange. Apparently the club has in the past considered the possibility of replacing the existing clubhouse on the north-west side of Dorking Road with a new one on the south-east side and the objectors feared that such a development might be proposed on the release land. On behalf of WHGC it was denied that any such plan currently exists. This is not a matter to which I can attach any weight as I must determine the application on the basis of the evidence that is before me which is that the club has permission to develop the release land as a golf practice area if its deregistration is approved.”

The management of the Tadworth & Walton Residents Association have previous form about making incorrect statements about Walton Heath Golf Club.

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internationally known club, is an important asset in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead and particularly in Walton on the Hill. As such, the Club has been committed to socially responsible behaviour for many years recognising that its approach to golf, the local community, charity, ecology and the environment and health and safety are extremely important.

I suggest that it would be better if the Club is consulted about the facts in future.

I shall be grateful if you would consider giving this letter the same prominence in your next issue that you gave to Mr Elcome and Mrs G Hein.

Yours faithfully David Newlands Chairman Walton Heath Golf Club

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THE TRIBUNE ASKED THE TWRA TO RESPOND With regard to Mr. David Newlandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Chairman, Walton Heath Golf Club) letter, published above, the TWRA does not wish to debate an issue so important to the local community through the medium of a local magazine.

We would simply comment that we have responded directly to Mr. Newlands, in his suggested spirit of consultation, asking for clarification as to their current thoughts and/or contingency plans, if such exist, to re-site their Clubhouse across the Dorking Road and onto the Heath. This we understand was discussed at the Clubs recent AGM.

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WALTON ON THE HILL VILLAGE FORUM

GOOD START TO THE YEAR he Walton Forum was established by residents in 1997; a platform to discuss matters of importance to the village and agree any necessary actions or improvements. The Forum meets three times per year, to which all village residents are encouraged to attend, usually in the Breech Lane Community Centre. The Forum committee can be reached, throughout the year via email with your ideas and concer ns.

What a fantastic start to 2017 here in the Village! The ‘Gun Corner’ renovations are visible for all to enjoy (why not take a rest on the new bench to admire it!), with the area having been completely landscaped and new bulbs and bushes showing themselves with all the glories of Spring. This project has been driven forward with the tireless efforts of local residents Lin Ferg and Jean Bye and the team at Surrey Hills Garden Management, to whom I offer our warmest thanks.

The Gun Corner project is now moving to its second and third stages, the existing BT telephone kiosk will be replaced with an original refurbished red telephone 1950’s box incorporating a community defibrillator. I am pleased to announce that we have successfully raised funds to secure these high value items but we aren’t finished yet, any

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contributions or fundraising ideas are very much welcome for our numerous upcoming community initiatives. In March local villagers rallied round, in conjunction with the #GreatBritishSpringClean National event, showing great determination with two litter picking sessions - clearing the High Street from Mere Pond to Howards close and adjoining roads.

Walton’s Toad Patrol has also been very active, helping our amphibian friends to cross the road at Mere Pond to breed safely.

They are looking for more volunteers to join in next season, do contact the Forum for details.

Upcoming and ongoing Village initiatives include:

Walton-on-the-Hill Pageant May 20th 2017. This year’s theme – London Underground Stations

20 is Plenty. A speed limit reduction campaign for Walton & Tadworth

Parking Review

Community defibrillator project at ‘Gun Corner’ (opposite St Peters Church)

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Mere Pond regeneration & Swan Island

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to help your fellow villagers and neighbours improve quality of life in the village, please contact the Forum committee for further details and join us at our next meeting.

Whilst resolutely non-political, the Walton Forum enjoys excellent relations with the borough and county councils. Your local councillors who are active in the community and have launched many local initiatives regularly attend Forum meetings to talk about the council’s activities, local issues, and to hear about issues residents should like them to deal with. Forum meetings are an excellent opportunity to make your voices heard.

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applications which require skilled technical input and are handled by the Tadworth and Walton Residents’ Association on our behalf. We are extremely grateful for their efforts to protect our village from inappropriate development.

The next Walton Forum meeting will be held in the Breech Lane Community Centre on Tuesday, 2nd MAY 2017 at 8.00pm.

Warm Regards George Curr y (Chairman) The Walton Forum committee can be reached on info@waltonvillageforum.com.

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SYDNEY ROBERT SANDEMAN “PRO REGE ET PATRIA” Here follows the story of a stained glass window in St Peter’s church and the link between its designer and a young local man killed in the First World War ll the stained glass windows in St Peter’s Church are inspiring and wonderful. However it is a window consisting of two lights distinct in their Arts & Crafts style, situated on the right hand side as you walk down the south aisle, which caught my eye since first visiting there upon the death of a friend. The left light shows the symbolic figure of ‘Fortitude’ standing unafraid as flaming arrows pierce his silver armour, and the right hand light shows an angel with lustrous purple wings, holding out a golden crown. The design and colours of the window are so intricate and beautiful that I never tire of gazing at them, and the commemoration at the foot of the window is most moving. The inscription reads: “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a Crown of Life”.

“In proud and loving remembrance of Lieu. Sydney Robert Sandeman MA The stained glass window in St Peter’s Church.

OXON RGA of this parish, who volunteered in the first weeks of The Great village knew anything of the window’s War and fell at St Julien Ypres, 22nd April history or of the Sandeman family. A view 1915 aged 27 years. PRO REGE ET PATRIA was held that copies of St Peter’s church (For King and Country).” magazines during and after the First World I was intrigued as to the link between the War years had been archived at Guildford window’s designer and this young local long since, and it was not known how to man, but no-one at St Peter’s or in the retrieve them. So I began to research.

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The stained glass inscription.

The window is in fact documented as the work of Christopher Whitworth Whall (1849-1924), the foremost English stained glass artist of the time and a leading member of the Arts & Crafts Movement.

Whall had struggled as a young man to make his mark as a stained glass window artist until 1884, when he cut ties with the usual run of manufacturers and factories.

On 10th November the same year he moved with his family to Ada Cottage (see map right) with a smallholding, near Inholms Lane, Stonebridge, Dorking. There he utilized the outhouse, once used as a cow-shed, to perfect all the skills of his craft – cutting, painting, firing and glazing – with the hope of obtaining his own commissions.

This having been achieved, the family moved to Falkland House in Falkland Grove, Dorking until 1896, after which they left the area. At this time he was teaching at the Central School for Arts and Crafts and later also at The Royal College of Art, London. After encouragement and commissions from John Dando Sedding, requests for his design “poured in” said The Times, such that Whall opened his own studio in 1908 at 1, Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith. He tutored many aspiring stained glass artists, not least his collaborators at Stonebridge, Louis Davis (who lodged at Falkland House) and

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Reginald Hallward, who became successful in their own right, as was his daughter Veronica, with whom he formed Whall & Whall Ltd in 1922.

Christopher Whall, himself influenced by William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites and Arts & Crafts Movements, was considered to be one of the most influential stained glass artists of his time. He was the acknowledged leader of the progressive movement in British stained glass, justly famed for his glorious windows in Canterbury and Gloucester Cathedrals.

Upon his death, Charles Connick said of Whall: “He was a gentle, friendly, greathearted man, in spirit very like the knightly crusaders and wise friendly saints who featured in his own windows in silver and jewels. He was one of the “Dreamers whose dreams come true”.

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Sydney Robert Sandeman died nearly one hundred years ago. His first ancestor is recorded in 1628 in Alyth, Scotland (near the Glenisla Golf Course in Eastern Scotland). Sydney came from a long line of senior military men, but in other areas his ancestors also excelled – a Governor of The Bank of England, the clergy, law and a writer, amongst others.

Sydney’s father George Paris Sandeman was the youngest of 10 children born 5.12.1857 of Scottish parents, originally from Perth. George’s father Robert Turnbull Sandeman was a Major General in the Indian army, where he met his wife, Jane Barclay, who had grown up in India. British Forces had annexed the Punjab, northern India, in 1849. This mountainous region did not suffer the intense constant heat as most of the country but was much cooler, had seasons, and so was a popular destination for British army officers to settle. George himself grew up surrounded by the new movement in art and design explored and developed by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) the father of writer Rudyard Kipling.

John Lockwood Kipling began his working life in the Midlands as a trainee architect, when the Arts & Crafts Movement – with its emphasis on promoting skilled craftsmanship in the face of industrialisation - was beginning to take hold. In 1851 he became fascinated with Indian art which he saw at The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace. Between then and 1865 he was involved with London’s artistic and literary community, and this led to his professional life as an artist, writer, museum director, teacher, conservationist, sculptor, ceramicist and illustrator.

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John Lockwood worked as an architectural sculptor at Victoria and Albert Museum, once called The South Kensington Museum, (devised because of the Arts & Crafts movement) which opened in 1857. In 1865 he met his future wife, Alice MacDonald, a sister of Edward Burne Jones who himself was a leading figure in the Arts & Crafts movement and a close friend of William Morris. Alice, who he’d met at a picnic beside Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, influenced John Lockwood through her knowledge and love of this style. The couple married in March 1865 and moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) in The Punjab, where John supplemented his income as a freelance journalist for the British and Indian Press. He made sketches of craftspeople and village customs which were commissioned by the British Government.

Rudyard was born there on the 30th December in the same year, after which Alice taught architecture in the JJ School of Art. Here John began a life dedicated to Indian Art as the College Principal and Curator.

In 1880 the British Museum started to receive Indian art from the East India Company’s collections. Indian religious beliefs forbid the display of human images in art, so only flowers, plants, fruit, animals, forests and scenes of Elysium can be shown. From the 1850’s factories in the Midlands had started to copy Indian designs. The Pre-Raphaelite movement also grew and intertwined with the Arts & Crafts movement during this period. By the time George Sandeman was an adult, both styles were already steeped into his psyche.

(When John Lockwood became ill in 1893 he moved back to Tisbury in Wiltshire for his remaining years, though was not idle – he became the illustrator for his son Rudyard’s books. In that way both father and son could bring to the world the fascinating tales of their beloved India).

S Y D N EY George Sandeman met his intended, Ethel, in the Punjab. The couple came to England, married in 1887 and lived in Elstree, where Sydney was born a year later on 18th March. George Sandeman began a career as a solicitor, progressing to becoming a partner in the law firm of Boulton & Sons, 21 Northampton Square, Clerkenwell. With his business flourishing, George was able to make plans to build a property for his family in the Surrey countryside.

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If you would like to consider becoming a Friend of St Peter’s, please contact Philip Truett on 01737 813832 or email philip@truett.co.uk further details about the fund raising

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campaign can be found on the following page no. 18.

Grateful thanks is offered to Peter Cormack, MBE FSA, author of Arts & Crafts Stained Glass (Yale University Press, 2015), who has studied and written about Christopher Whall during forty years of research, for providing expertise and advice about the artist for this article. Also thanked are Walton-on-the-Hill’s NADFAS and Histor y Society, Dorking and Bourne Hall Museums, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Oxford University Archives and Churchwardens from St Peter’s, without whom, Sydney Robert Sandeman’s stor y could not be told.

The old map showing the location of Ada Cottage was donated by a current resident of Stonebridge.

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FRIENDS OF ST PETER’S

ST PETER’S CHOSEN BY CO-OP he very exciting news is that Friends of

those who had received our leaflet, which was

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distributed to every house in Walton, and who

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Fund. The Co-op will give 1% of everything their members spend on Co-op branded

completed and returned these.

We have also received a number of very

products and services to Friends of St Peter’s

generous one-off donations which have helped

for the next six months.

our initial finances hugely.

Firstly, you must become a member of the

Standing Orders will allow us to plan our

Co-op – achieved in store at no cost.

future finances. It also means that we have

Secondly, having received your membership

nearly 60 people who have not previously

card, which must always be shown when

contributed to the Church. Please remember

shopping at the Co-op, you have to go on line

that this new charity is only supporting the

and nominate Friends of St Peter’s as your

Church building and the surrounding land, the

chosen charity. Thirdly, you have to spend as

Churchyard. It is not to do with the activities

much as possible on Co-op branded products,

within the Church.

for the benefit of ‘Friends’!

Please consider becoming a Friend of St

Since my last report in February, we have now

Peter’s. Contact Philip Truett on 01737 813832

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THE PAGEANT IS COMING his yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Walton on the Hill Pageant is being held on Saturday 20th May with a procession theme of London Underground Stations.

A fun family day out, come rain or shine, is well supported by residents of Walton-onthe-Hill and the surrounding areas of Tadworth, Kingswood and Epsom.

Walton-on-the-Hill May Pageant Day and Fayre begins early in the morning when the local shopkeepers and residents on the Procession Route decorate their premises to the Procession Theme.

Judging of the Best Dressed Shop Display, Best Dressed Home, Best Display Along The Route and Best Dressed Pub will take place at 12 noon on Pageant Day, 20th MAY 2017, by the reigning May Queen, Freya Taylor, with two other judges.

We all assemble outside The Blue Ball and the colourful Procession sets off for the Pageant Green at 2pm, led by the fancy dress ponies followed by the tractor carrying the May Queen and her Attendants.

Many groups take part in the Procession to the Fayre Green including The Town Crier, local schools and clubs plus other attractions such as the Marching Bands, Santa Fe Stage Coach, Harley Davidson Bike Club, Crystals Elite Cheerleaders and Morris Dancers.

This year, Walton-on-the-Hill May Pageant Day closes with music by El Rocco DJ from 5.30 to 6.30pm.

If you wish to donate a raffle prize for the 2017 Walton-on-the-Hill May Pageant, please contact: raffle@waltonmaypageant.co.uk www.waltonmaypageant.co.uk

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All proceeds from Walton May Pageant will be donated to national and local charities.

One of the main beneficiaries this year is Diabetes UK (Surrey Downs) and here is what the charity will be doing at the Pageant and the important work they do. iabetes UK (Surrey Downs group) are coming to the May pageant at Walton-on-the-Hill on May 20th this year!

"We are here to fundraise but we would love to speak to anyone in the area who is affected by diabetes" says Group Chairman Laura Hunt (picture centre), who has lived with type 1 diabetes herself for over 30 years." We are all diabetics ourselves or have close relatives with the condition, and understand the challenges of managing the condition. Whether you are newly diagnosed, have had diabetes for a while or just want to know more, come and have a chat at our stand" continues Laura.

"Diabetes is something we have to think about every day but we all feel positive about getting on with life with diabetes!"

There are reckoned to be 11,000 people in the Surrey Downs area of which 90% have type 2 diabetes, more worryingly it is believed that over 1,700 more people remain undiagnosed - there is no such thing as 'mild diabetes'. An important part of Diabetes UK's work involves helping people to identify if they are at risk of diabetes, but your doctor can easily diagnose you. Visit Diabetes UK to check out the symptoms www.diabetes.org.uk/Diabetes-thebasics/Diabetes-Symptoms/.

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levels, mainly due either to resistance to the hormone insulin which normally regulates blood glucose (type 2) or a lack of the hormone itself (type 1). Whilst there are many horror stories in the media right now about the perils of poorly managed diabetes e.g. amputations, blindness and kidney disease, the good news is that once diagnosed you can manage and even reverse the condition (type 2) with the right combination of lifestyle changes and medications. Prime minister Theresa May is famously a type 1 diabetic and the Surrey Downs Diabetes UK volunteers include busy mums, marathon runners and many active people. Laura adds: "Our aim as a Diabetes UK group is to support people, provide a voice to the Care Commissioning Group (CCG), listen to your concerns about the management of your condition or make suggestions about the

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help you need to manage your diabetes better. We are looking forward to the pageant as it's such a well organised and fun community event and are hoping that lots of local people will take a few minutes to visit our stand and help with all the good work that Diabetes UK are doing locally and nationally."www.diabetes.org.uk

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EXPLORING THE DEEPDENE TRAIL Dorking has a new trail for those who like exploring the stately gardens and countryside of Surrey

Restored Embattled Tower.

he new trail opened in September 2016 and provides an entertaining walk for all the family as well as those interested in local history. As a result of Heritage Lottery Funding, the Mole Valley District Council has successfully restored the garden features in the Deepdene estate, just off the Dorking by-pass. The features include the 19th century Hope Mausoleum, the Grotto, the Embattled Tower and the formal gardens. The restorations are now linked by a network of paths leading from the access point on Deepdene Avenue RH5 5AZ.

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Shaped over hundreds of years, the landscape provides a fascinating insight into the life and times of the Howard and later the Hope families before 1920. Arthur Mee wrote of Deepdene in 1938 that the Duke of Norfolk lived here. Benjamin Disraeli is believed to have written part of his novel Coningsby here and John Aubrey, the 17th century antiquarian, said that Deepdene gardens gave him so much pleasure that he never expected any greater enjoyment except in the kingdom of heaven. Deepdene owes its name to its distinctive topography: it contains a steepsided, narrow dene, or dell, described by

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John Evelyn in 1655 as like an amphitheatre. Queen Victoria's Osborne House was inspired by Hope's house at Deepdene.

The estate dates back to medieval times. Charles Howard established his house at 'Dibden', as it was described

by John Evelyn, when he diarised it on 9 August 1664. Howard's family had owned most of the Manor of Dorking for centuries. His grandson, also Charles, went on to build a Palladian mansion on the site in the 1760s and continued to spend his summers at Deepdene even after becoming 10th Duke of Norfolk in 1777. The estate was laid out with ornamental gardens that were fashionable in the mid-seventeenth century.

In 1808 banker Thomas Hope, one of the richest men in England, bought the

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Deepdene estate. At this height of the Regency architectural period the house was fashionably remodelled for Hope by the architect William Atkinson. He enlarged the house with orangeries, conservatories, a library and galleries, filling it with antiques, sculptures and works of art. The estate was further extended by the acquisition of the Chart Park and Betchworth Castle estates. Work was completed in 1819 and eventually Deepdene was occupied by Hopeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, the MP Henry Hope. During the ownership of the Hope family, the grounds stretched twelve miles in circumference from Box Hill to Brockham.

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years. Eventually it was demolished in 1969. The Kuoni office block replaced it.

In 1813/14 Chart Park, which adjoined the Deepdene estate, was purchased by Henry Philip Hope as a gift for his brother Thomas. To commemorate Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift, Thomas erected a temple, affectionately inscribing it Fratri Optimo â&#x20AC;&#x201C; HPH (For my best brother - HPH). The temple, which was built high on the hill behind what is now the Kuoni office block, ultimately became a target for vandalism and was demolished c.1955. The Hope Mausoleum was built a short distance away c.1818 following the death of Thomas Hope's 7year old son Charles in Italy. The Mausoleum has survived and is now restored.

On the right hand side as one climbs the valley are three intriguing bricked up entrances to underground workings. When Southern Railway took over Deepdene House for its wartime headquarters it discovered that there were natural caves in the grounds. These caves had been acknowledged nearly 300 years before in the diaries of John Evelyn after he visited on 1st August 1655. Because of the natural protection afforded by the location of the caves in the Upper Greensand strata, they were transformed into a bunker to house both the switchboard and the railway traffic control. Alongside the entrances is an impressive flint-work winding staircase and tower viewpoint.

Now restored, the Embattled Tower as it is called, leads to higher level footpaths.

Climbing further up the valley or dene, the next feature that comes to notice is a peculiar underground grotto, now restored.

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doorway entrance with windows each side. This doorway has now been removed. Inspection of the historic interior reveals four side niches on the back wall with a larger panel in-between. This latter panel reveals flint work, albeit apparently concealed behind a later brick wall lining the chamber. The floor is of rounded pebbles.

All the garden features were in a poor state of repair. In July 2015 Mole Valley District Council announced their plans for a two year complete restoration of the ruinous and forgotten Deepdene estate.

As a result we now have a public gardens and recreation area for all to enjoy. The trail is free to walkers and car parking is recommended at Dorking Halls or thereabouts.

For more information and pictures of before and after go to www.grotto.directory and search Deepdene Grotto on the index page.

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January 2015, I collapsed at school.

feed himself.

Prior to his haemorrhage, football and running was a big part of Ryley’s life. In fact,

I’d had a stroke. I was 14

the week before he collapsed he qualified top

years old. I was left with a

of his age group in the county championships.

brain injury and could no

Yet, despite the unimaginable happening to him

longer move my right side,

and being paralysed and unable to talk or walk,

talk or walk. After time in hospital, I moved to

Ryley wasn’t going to let anything get him

The Children’s Trust, a specialist rehabilitation

down. Just six months after his acquired brain

centre in Surrey, where I relearnt some of the

injury, Ryley moved to The Children’s Trust for

skills I had lost. It took a lot of willpower. I had

specialist brain injury rehabilitation – a

to be brave and work hard. My biggest

combination of intensive physio, speech and

achievement was learning to walk again.

language, occupational therapy, aquatics, play

I’m sharing my story because the charity that

therapy and music therapy. With bravery and

helped me, The Children’s Trust, is asking us all

determination, Ryley focused on relearning

to go outside of our comfort zone and help

many of the skills he’d lost.

raise money for children with brain injury. Every

One of Ryley’s biggest achievements was

year more than 40,000 children are left with a

learning how to communicate again. Keren

brain injury as a result of an accident or illness.

Holding, Leisure and Activities Assistant at The

As I have found, specialist rehabilitation is their

Children’s Trust explains: He learnt how to use

best chance of recovery. But it’s not possible

an iPad to talk and participate in conversations,

without your help.

and is now saying a few words clearly, at a

#MyBrave was learning to walk again for the second time in my life. What’s yours? Visit

volume that’s easy to hear – that’s a huge step.

Ryley moved back home a few weeks ago

www.mybrave.co.uk for inspiration.

(16 March 2017), still brave and determined to

Thank you Harrison Andrews (pictured above)

improve. He has refocused his goals and now

Ryley’s story

aims to be a Paralympian.

Ryley is 15 and lives near Peterborough. Until

Ryley is sharing his story because the charity

May 2016, Ryley was a typical teenage boy

that helped him, The Children’s Trust, is asking

who loved sport, when he suddenly collapsed

everyone to go outside of their comfort zone, do

at home. He had a brain haemorrhage caused

something brave, and help raise money for

by an arterial venous malformation (AVM) - a

children with brain injury. Every year more than

symptomless condition he’d had since birth.

40,000 children are left with a brain injury as a

AMV is a tangle of blood vessels in the brain

result of an accident or illness. As Ryley found,

which bypasses normal brain tissue and

specialist rehabilitation is their best chance of

directly diverts blood from the arteries to the

recovery. But it’s not possible without your help.

veins. It’s thought to occur in less than one

“#MyBrave was learning to communicate

percent of the population. Ryley was left with a

again after a stroke. What’s yours?” Visit

severe brain injury, unable to walk or talk or

www.mybrave.co.uk for inspiration

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n 2016, Cheam Windows celebrated their 25th year in business. During this time they have installed a wide range of highquality doors, windows, conservatories and glazed extensions in over 35,000 homes thoughout Surrey and South West London.

Throughout this time, Cheam Windows have gained a good understanding, not just of the window industry, but also of the property market and the changes this has brought to today's homeowner. They understand how the impact of a highquality window, door or glazed extension can affect not just the energy efficiency but also the improvement to useable living space which all contributes to increasing property values.

As a company, they have manufactured products themselves in the past although after many years realised that as a customer-focussed company they had to offer a wider range of products. The success of the company and volume of business ultimately meant that they could buy high-quality products from the best manufacturers in the UK for less than it

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cost to manufacture themselves.

The window industry has become very spohisticated in recent years with an abundance of choice, unfortunately, not all of it good. To many homeowners, this diversity of choice and the confusing information gained from the internet makes it very difficult to find a true solution to their needs.

As a distinguished company, the major manufacturers in the UK are keen to supply Cheam Windows - this not only gives them access to the best products on the market but also supply them at competitve prices.

They continue to offer potential customers a unique experience in an industry that has gathered a jaded image over the years. This experience begins with actually being able to see products in a comfortable showroom environment and a knowledgeable yet passive member of the sales team to help where required. James, from the Banstead showroom said "customers like to meet us in the showroom, to get to see our products up close before they invite us into their homes

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It is very important that customers realise they don't employ hard sell tactics, no pressure and no false â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sign-on-the-nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; discounts.

As a company, their work carries a 10year guarantee underwritten by Lloyds of London and administered by the Glass and Glazing Federation along with a further 10years from themselves to give a 20-year guarantee.

Cheam Windows are also one of the few independent window companies in the UK to have a dedicated Customer Service team too.

They are confident that customers will buy from them not because of their competitive prices but because the customer feels they have intelligently evaluated the products, the assurance that comes from a stable and secure company and a price that doesn't aim to be the cheapest but best all-round value.

Testimony to the way Cheam Windows work is the fact that over 70% of their work stems from repeat customers, personal referrals and recommendations.

To contact Cheam Windows, call 0800 802 1880 or visit www.cheamwindows.co.uk MAY 2017 31

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Above: Jacqueline Wilson and her children.

Above: Painting by Jacqueline Wilson.

ello, my name is Jacqueline Wilson and I have lived in Surrey for over 10 years, working as an actuarial analyst. I live with my husband, my two young children and an elderly black Labrador. That’s me and my girls in the photo at Claremont Gardens Surrey and the painting is a landscape of mine looking out over Newlines corner.

With my two children being 2 and 5 years old and in school, wrap around school care is possible, but finding cover for school holidays is very difficult, especially whilst the children are so young.

I stopped work recently to look after the children and to see if I could pursue a more flexible career that would allow me to choose my own work-life balance. Up until recently, painting had been a very infrequent hobby but with a house move in 2016 to the beautiful Surrey countryside, the search for new career spurred me on to try and

make painting more than just a hobby.

I currently paint in acrylics at my home in Surrey and I undertook my first commission at the end of last year. My aim is to paint local landscapes and to sell them locally.

But I decided I needed a broader base so I joined an art group last year that is close to me called TAG Tadworth Art Group.

This has given me a huge boost, with the chance to exhibit at their very high quality art exhibitions* twice yearly and to meet their thirtyodd artists with all their vast talent and experience that I‘m sure I will learn a lot from. I’m convinced that will now help me enormously on my quest for the elusive work-life balance that I am searching for.

As well as painting I also enter photography competitions were possible, whether it’s for the local village voice or for the wider national competitions and I was one of the runners-up at the 2016 Mayfield

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lavender photography competition.

Also, that year I became the Polesdon Lacey photographer of the year. I find that photography helps me hugely with my painting and I jog locally, of course for exercise, but also to take pictures for painting inspiration.

So, at present, I am currently juggling looking after the family,

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trying to fit painting somewhere in between and re-designing the ground floor in our new home. All good fun. *TADWORTH ART GROUP’s next exhibition (including pictures above) is on Fri 12th, Sat 13th and Sun 14th May at the Peter Aubertin Hall, Elmore Rd, Chipstead, CR5 3SG. For more information go to www.tadworthartgroup.org.uk

Once a farming community. much that we take for granted in Tadworth is the result of the careful managed evolution of our local heritage. Today Tadworth is what we envisage as a traditional English village. The village shops in their arts and crafts style date back to when the railway was built.

They offer a wide range of individual services ranging from travel agent to greengrocers, butchers, fishmongers and fresh bread bakery. Tadworth has its own selection of fine schools for children of all ages, It has good communications, health facilities and even a bank. Surrounded by the North Downs, the locality retains its late 19th century vintage charm and scale yet offers all the modern services necessary for living in the 21st century.

“Tadworth the Village on the Downs” looks at aspects of Tadworth’s development in order to provide insights into how what we have today has been carefully sculpted from the past. The book seeks to cover in particular, aspects of local history that have not been detailed by earlier historians.

In A4 format with more than 50 pages and well-illustrated in colour, copies of the book are available from Bruce Osborne at Tower House, 15 Tower Road, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5QY for £10.00. Tel: 01737 213169. Email: b.osborne2@ntlworld.com

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LOOK OUT FOR POSTAL FRAUD he fastest growing crimes in the UK are various types of attempt to defraud or scams. Neighbourhood Watch has an important role to warn people how to avoid these attempts themselves and the things they should watch out for if they have potentially vulnerable friends or relatives. An aging population and increases in life expectancy plus the impact of various early forms of dementia unfortunately means that more people are vulnerable to fraud. A lot of attention has been focused on email and internet fraud but many older people who do not use computers are still falling victim to postal fraud.

Those falling victim to postal scams are often older people living alone and around 75 years of age although anybody can fall victim to increasingly sophisticated scammers.

Scammers can identify potential victims in a variety of ways, examples being those responding to fake promotional adverts such as an offer for a free hearing aid and even those whose partner has recently been reported as deceased. Postal scams can take the form of fake lotteries, fake offers of an inheritance, clairvoyance related offers, counterfeit goods offers, fake investment opportunities and more recently what appear to be genuine letters from banks or government agencies such as HMRC seeking personal details. A large percentage of scam mail appears to originate from abroad often utilising return addresses in The Netherlands, Austria and Australia. Steps have been taken to halt some of these operations. For example after 300 scam linked PO Boxes in The Netherlands were closed down, mail volumes to The

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Netherlands were reduced by 250,000 items per month! However, the scammers are resourceful and will certainly try to set up new addresses.

Signs for relatives or neighbours to look for are: Unusual quantities of mail Relatively high usage of cheques Shortage of money – shown by economising on heating etc.

It seems that scammers share details about their victims in so called “suckers’ lists” and this is what results in the increased mail volumes Many lonely victims get involved in replying to the various fake offers as it gives them something interesting to do and, even when warned by friends or relatives that these are scams, will continue to correspond with the fakers as they are to some extent addicted to the activity.

If you are aware of a successful fraud perpetrated on yourself or a relative this should be reported to the Police using the non-emergency 101 number or online reporting mechanisms. Unfortunately many people can be ashamed at having been duped and do not report the crime but this may allow the scammers to strike again. If you are aware of a failed attempt at a scam this can be reported to Action Fraud – this is the agency that monitors trends in frauds and assesses the likelihood of a successful prosecution before deciding whether to pass details to local Police or Trading Standards as appropriate. Action Fraud can be contacted online or via 0300 123 2040.

Mike Fox, Secretary Surrey Neighbourhood Watch Association 01737 350452.

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of the Tadworth Tribune, TWOAT raises money locally to help small scale

projects in some of the poorest countries of the world where there is a personal link to this part of Surrey. This ensures that all of the money we raise reaches the projects and we get news of the improvements which that funding delivers.

In this edition we want to tell you about some of the projects which are encouraging self-reliance.

The first is the Mtandika Trade School, near

Some of the girls at Mtandika Trade School with their sewing machines.

Iringa in Tanzania. We heard about this school

donations have helped make them fully self-

about ten years ago through a resident of

reliant adults.

Headley. It was set up to provide skills training

TWOAT also helps self-reliance by collecting

for girls who were orphans or had no money for

tools locally which will be shipped overseas to

secondary education. They were taught to make

assist poorer individuals. We do this by working

good quality clothes that they could sell and so

with two other UK based charities - the first is

help them become self-reliant. Through the

Tools for Self-Reliance (TFSR) and the second is

years of supporting this wonderful project we

Tools With a Mission (TWAM).

have subsidised teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; salaries and provided

These two charities between them take a

sewing machines for those finishing their course

whole range of old used tools, refurbish them

so that they could then start their own

and then send them on to people overseas in

businesses.

some of the poorest countries of the world to

We have also helped to provide them with

help them improve their lives in a range of ways.

solar power, water pumps and pipes to irrigate

Tools range from hand tools such as saws,

the shambas (fields where the school grows

hammers, chisels, screwdrivers, chisels, drills,

maize and vegetables to help feed the children)

etc. through to power tools including sewing

and flooring for toilets. Another local charity,

machines and tools used by builders, plasterers,

based in Ashtead and called Action in Africa,

electricians and plumbers. Other tools include

has provided funding for buildings and running

pick-axes and sledgehammers and, for

costs for the greatly expanded school which is

garden/agricultural purposes larger tools such

now government approved and additionally

as spades, forks, hoes and rakes. So, between

provides computer and engineering training for

the two charities, there is very good demand for

boys and girls.

used or even new, but unwanted, tools.

Our personal contact visits the school regularly, does work there and brings back photographs of students and facilities as shown

Please help us to help them by giving TWOAT any tools you no longer need.

For more information visit WWW.TWOAT.org

here. He also reports on former students whose

or contact them via Chair Mike Fox on 01737

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CRICKET FOR ALL AGES he sun is peaking through, the blue sky is appearing and the coats are returning to the wardrobe.

This can mean only one thing… the cricket season is almost upon us!

Whether you are a prospective player, a parent/grandparent of an aspiring Jason Roy or Natalie Sciver, a keen cricket supporter or just love a good tea then Tadworth Cricket Club is the club to join.

Tadworth Cricket Club is a vibrant, friendly place to play and watch cricket. We are situated on Mill Road in Tadworth, opposite the Dukes Head public house which is on the Dorking Road. We have a beautiful ground and an excellent playing surface. Players of all ages and abilities are welcome.

The 1st and 2nd XIs play in the first and third divisions of the Surrey Downs League, and our Sunday XI play friendlies every week at home.

We have a thriving colts section (ages 413) which has coaching on Friday nights throughout the summer and a number of matches against other local clubs. We are

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accredited with the England and Wales Cricket Board Clubmark standard, which means we are recognised as being a safe, well-run club that is a suitable place for parents and carers to bring their children to enjoy cricket.

We have recently signed up to the ECB ALL STARS programme. A national programme to encourage cricket participation which was recently launched in the national press and on Sky TV. We plan to target our sessions to 4-6 year olds. This is due to run for 1 hour maximum for a period of 8 weeks and is an introduction to cricket. Those that sign up (and this is all an on line system administered in part by ECB) will receive ALL STARS back pack, shirts, drinks bottle etc.

If you would like to join, or would like further details and information, please contact:Mike Wren-Kirkham (1st XI Captain) at:mwk94@sky.com, by phone on 07967 178 989, or find us at tadworthcricketclub.co.uk.

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Join us for an evening of Beauty Tips and Treats Wednesday 26th April 6pm-9pm Christ Church Hall, Ewell Village, Surrey KT17 1AD. Good Parking available.

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For tickets contact Alice at Dyscover on 01737 819419 aowen@dyscover.org.uk or bwarwick@dyscover.org.uk Friends of the Children’s Trust invite you to their 2017 Spring Exhibition of Arts Friday 5th May (6 - 9pm with Grand Opening at 7pm) Saturday 6th May (10am - 5pm) Sunday 7th May (11am - 3pm) Tadworth Court Mansion, Tadworth St, KT20 5RU Contact Richard Palmer on 01737 363335 or richardmpalmer@ntlworld.com Tadworth Art Group Summer Exhibition Peter Aubertin Hall,Elmore Road Chipstead, Surrey CR5 3SG Friday 12th May 18.30 - 22.00 Preview evening. Meet the artists over wine and nibbles.

Saturday 13th May 10.00 - 18.00 Ashtead Art Group Nestling below the vines of Denbies Hillside and residing on the first floor of the splendid vineyard building, Denbies Gallery plays host to many local painters and art groups among its professional exhibitors. Every week the gallery displays varied artwork for the enjoyment of its patrons and also for sale, often at modest prices when compared

to the London galleries.

It is here from May 1st – 14th that Ashtead Art Group will be displaying its latest work showcasing the talents of its many local members.

Anyone interested in painting but not wanting to join a formal art group may be interested in joining a gathering at Breech Lane Community centre on Thursday afternoons between 1.30 and 3.30 when a small group of like-minded artists gather to work and to talk together in an informal setting. Further info: Barbara Felts on 0208 339 9299 TWOAT EVENTS April 22nd 7.15 pm Auction of Promises – St John’s Hall, Tadworth Admission £5 April 23rd 2 – 5.30pm NGS Open Garden Scheme 41 Shelvers Way (£4) – TWOAT is selling teas May 19th TWOAT Sponsored 10 mile Walk – contact John Allinson 01737 213347 May 20th TWOAT Bottle Stall at Walton May Fayre - to donate bottles contact Mike Fox 01737 350452 May 27th 2nd TWOAT Sponsored 10 mile Walk – contact John Allinson 01737 213347 Friends of the Children’s Trust invite you to their Strings & Pimms An evening for all music lovers Sat 24th June 2017 7.30pm for 8pm Featuring the talented international violinist Victoria Yellop For tickets £15 inc. complimentary Glass of Pimms call Anne Gradidge 01737 353981 or Gerry Murch 01737 812655 or email: friendsofthechildrenstrust@virginmedia.com MAY 2017 41

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