THE TEDDINGTON SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

T I D I N G S Helping to make Teddington even better

Number 159 Christmas 2012

OLYMPIC FLAGS COMPETITION

Some of our younger competitors

See page 4

Letter from the Chair After the strange weather we have had this year - first drought and then floods, no insects to pollinate our fruit trees and consequently the worst harvest I have known - no damsons, few plums and no quinces - it is a relief that Autumn is behaving more normally with a mixture of warm sunshine and cool nights. The Autumn colours in Teddington's streets seem to be particularly vibrant this year.

We have suffered the sad and sudden loss of one of our stalwarts this year. Pat Shuttleworth was responsible for the adminstration underpinning "Teddington in Flower" each year and her efficiency and calm good humour ensured that every open garden had its gate sitters and equipment. Her wisdom and common sense is sorely missed by those of us who knew her.

We now have the Christmas lighting-up to look forward to - this becomes more popular and successful every year due to the sterling efforts of Sheena Harold and John Demont as well as the local traders.

Jenny Hilton

YOUNG AT HEART

Contents: From the Editor 2

Teddington and the National Olympian Association

3

Olympics Flags Competition 4

Jubilee and Olympics 4

Group Reports 6

Udney Farm & Appleby 10

London In Bloom results 11

Turing House School 11

Society People News 12

New Members 12

We Need You - Volunteers 13

Business Exchange 14

Quiz Corner 15

Events 16

Dates for your diary: Christmas Lights Up November 29th Merits Xmas Lunch November 22nd & 30th

New Year Party January 23rd

David and Judith Lawton Ann Sayer Read more on pages 2 and 6

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Teddington Society 21 Teddington Park Teddington TW11 8DB

Registered Charity No. 802026

secretary@teddingtonsociety .org.uk www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk

Vice-Presidents Roger Avins John Demont Joan Freeman

Chair Jenny Hilton j.hilton@care4free.net

Vice Chairman Sheena Harold sam.harold@hotmail.com

Treasurer Sally Howland 020 8977 9404

Publicity & Promotions (incl. Gardens) Sheena Harold 020 8977 2700

Newsletter Editor Mike Woods 020 8977 5642

Minutes Secretary Rosemary Connellan 07900 964188

Membership Subscriptions Belinda Heal 020 8977 4926

Events Organiser Angela Carvill 020 8977 0167

CONVENORS Corporate Liaison Bhavna Patel 020 8977 3793

Environment David Lawton 020 8977 6778

Historical Research Paddy Ching 020 8977 3091

Planning Brian Lane 020 8973 0811

all@angelalane.plus.com (first contact only)

Riverside and Open Spaces Ann Sayer 020 8977 9495

Roads and Transport Brian Holder 020 8977 1579

From the Editor

A Year of Celebrations We seem to have been in party mood all year in Teddington. The Diamond Jubilee dominated proceedings followed closely by the Olympics and Paralympics. Teddington has played a major role in all of this, hosting all three of the Olympics Cycling road races. It was amazing to see local residents and businesses supporting all of these events through street parties, our Jubilee Charity weekend, Teddington In Flower, Olympics Flags competition and so much more. What I found remarkable, and was amply illustrated during the Cycling Time Trials, was the way we cheered everybody – regardless of their nationality – something we can be rightly proud of.

And it doesn’t finish there. We still have our annual Christmas Lights Up to look forward to as well as our Christmas lunches at Merits – an occasion that is challenging now to be the best attended Society event of the year.

And something else to cheer is the way some of our Committee members have demonstrated so publicly that age is just a state of mind. David (with wife Judith) and Ann (our front page pin-ups) set an example to us all by showing how they are still so young at heart.

So let me take this opportunity to thanks all members, residents and businesses alike, for the marvellous support they have given during the year and it just leaves me to wish you a very enjoyable Christmas and a happy New Year and hopefully to see you all suitably refreshed at our New Year party.

mike.woods@blueyonder.co.uk

Copy deadline for the next issue is 20th January

CORRECTIONS: In the previous issue we managed to excel ourselves with mistakes – and thanks to those readers who spotted them. In the Teddington in Flower montage, three of the gardens were attributed to Teddington Park Road. Full marks to those who realised that they should have been in Teddington Park. In the Edith Cavell article, Patricia Hammond is indeed now in her 70s and not 30’s. Apologies to all - our proof readers will be forgoing their Christmas bonus!!

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Teddington’s Role as a Forerunner for the Modern Olympics

When the announcement was made in Singapore on 6 July 2005 that London would host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, history was made. By winning the vote, London was to become the only city in the world to host the modern Olympics three times. Since their revival in 1896 the modern Games have been held at White City in 1908, Wembley in 1948 and Stratford in 2012. On each occasion there were special challenges to face. (See Walk for Gold below).

However, the British have had a long association with the ideals of the ancient Olympic Games going back over many years, in fact 400 years, to 1612 and Robert Dover’s Cotswold Olimpicks as they were known. These were the first recorded public games to have adopted the title Olympic since the ancient Games were banned some 1,200 years earlier.

In the 1850s, the Wenlock Olympian Games were established in the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock. They were instigated by the local doctor, William Penny Brookes, to “improve the physical, educational and moral wellbeing of the working classes”.

Until 1865, the various Olympic Festivals held in Britain had been local affairs. This changed in 1865 when William Penny Brookes from Much Wenlock and John Hulley from Liverpool got together with other interested parties to form the National Olympian Association (NOA), in November 1865. Their aim was to establish a National Olympian Games, to be held in a different city every year.

The first NOA Games were held in London in 1866 and staged over three days, in three different locations, for swimming, athletics and gymnastics. On day one, 31 July 1866, rather than utilise one of the newly built swimming baths, the River Thames at Teddington was chosen for the swimming. Open river swimming was considered to be more manly, even if the stretch past Teddington was not actually tidal, thanks to the construction of the Teddington Lock in 1811.

The weather was far from ideal: heavy rain fell and a strong north-westerly churned up the water and blew into the swimmers’ faces, forcing some to drop out. Three races were completed, each starting from a barge moored a mile above Teddington Lock.

On day two, athletic displays such as running, hurdle races, steeplechase and throwing events were held on the cricket ground at Crystal Palace Park. On the final day, Thursday 2 August, the NOA Games met at the German Gymnasium, by King’s Cross Station (and restored in 2005). While many of its original members were German, the name also referred to a type of gymnastics designed to build strength, courage and teamwork using ropes, vaults and dumb-bells combined with sports such as fencing.

As the year comes to a close we can think not only about the success of London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, but also of Teddington’s longstanding and unique cultural and sporting links with both the ancient and modern Games.

Pamela McHutchon

A new contributor for Tidings, Pamela McHutchon is a Blue Badge Tourist Guide, Teddington resident and a member of the Society.

For those of you who missed the opportunity to visit the Olympic sites this year, you can still do so and more. Walk for Gold is a full day tour of all three London Olympic sites where you can hear the stories behind each of the modern Games held in London. More information can be found at www.guidedtoursoflondon.com

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Olympic Flags Competition Wow, what a summer we’ve had in Teddington. First the Jubilee celebrations and then the Olympics. Teddington High Street was filled with a splendour of colour with the world’s flags showing unity for the 2012 games and making athletes feel at home.

My challenge was to get all the shops to agree with what my vision was and to put the flags up in the Olympic protocol order. Having succeeded, the whole community came together in showing what the Olympic games meant to them and to Teddington.

For the duration of the games, I ran a competition for all age groups to name all 93 nation flags above shops on the High Street. The response was fantastic so not only did everyone enjoy the display of colour but it was an education in researching which flag represented which country.

The children did brilliantly - better than the grown ups. So, well done everyone. Even those who did not take part in the competition made efforts to stop and guess the country each flag it belonged to. I saw so many flags that I had never seen before and all of them were so really fascinating to look at.

I was given very generous prizes from businesses:

Park Lane Stables Retro Kings Head Mercado Waterstones La Casa del Habano Dexters Studio148 Carluccio’s Toni & Guy LS hairdressing Stevens Tyres Cook Spa Nails

and I would like to thank them all for their generosity. All the winners have been contacted and prizes are still being collected. I thoroughly enjoyed the buzz it created as we don't know if this will happen again in our life-time.

Bhavna Patel

Continuing the Jubilee and Olympics theme, there were a number of related “photo opportunities” this summer and we have a selection of photos here to remind us. Thanks to all the photographers who provided this pictorial montage.

The floral tower in Elmfield Gardens (left)

Cattle trough in Park Road (right)

Barrier boxes and hanging basket on Teddington Bridge (far right)

Noah wins the £10 book token from Waterstones for the up to 11 year olds

Paula wins the meal for 4 at the Kings Head in the 12-18 age group

The £40 horse riding voucher from Park Lane Stables for the adult group was won by Patsy

One parent said: “It’s been an absolutely

brilliant competition – we’ve learned a lot”

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Gloriana carries the Olympic torch from Hampton Court to Teddington Lock (above). Mo Farah and local residents celebrate Mo’s Olympic gold medal with a group “Mobot” at the gold post box in North Lane (right)

Bradley Wiggins on his way to victory in the Mens Time Trial (left)

Crossing Teddington Bridge in the Mens Road Race (below)

Massed ranks of the Womens Road Race negotiating the appalling weather conditions (below left)

QUEENS' JUBILEE FOUNTAIN In 2002 The Society raised £5,000 to clean the fountain in Park Road (opposite the Park Hotel) and to attach a plaque commemorating the Golden Jubilee year of Queen Elizabeth II. The fountain was erected for Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. Victoria, our longest reigning monarch, racked up 63 years 216 days on the throne with George III, our longest reigning King, coming in at 59 years 96 days. This year, to our delight, the Council agreed to improve the fountain by removing the attached 2002 plaque and having the wording engraved on the granite monument instead. They would also clean it and seek 2 more cups to match the remaining one still attached. Carthy Conservation carried out the work and you can see Thomas Merrett doing the stone carving with Deborah Carthy doing the gilding. A fine monument to the Queens in Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee year. She will have to reign until 217 days into 2015 to beat Victoria's record! The 2002 brass plaque now resides in my den ready for the day we get our own Teddington Museum.

Sheena Harold

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Reports from the Groups Gardens

Sheena Harold 8977 2700 sam.harold@hotmail.com

OBITUARY: PAT SHUTTLEWORTH 7.3.1938 - 20.8.2012

This is one report I am loathe to write. In August my dear friend and neighbour Pat died suddenly. I still can't quite believe it. Many of you will know her as she has co-organised "Teddington In Flower" since 2005. No matter how many gardens I persuaded to open, Pat was up to the task of finding one or two sitters at each. No mean feat I can tell you. She was also responsible for all the associated paperwork which runs into reams.

Pat was born in Feltham, attended Twickenham County School, then went to university in Birmingham where she gained a BSc in Zoology, then a PhD in Pharmacology. Her knowledge was invaluable since she knew the proper names of flowers and made sure I didn't nibble anything poisonous! Essentially a private person, I didn't find this out until she was ill. She loved her garden which she had redesigned but would never open for me! Duncan, our previous Treasurer, met Pat at University and they married in 1969. They lived first in Sheffield, moving to Teddington in the 1970s. By now they had two lovely children, Dale and Anna. In the 1990s, Pat went back to work in the pharmaceutical industry for 10 years. In retirement Pat was invaluable to the Society. She was essentially and actually my right hand, living as she did just across the road from me. I would ask her opinion and get it, ask her to sub copy for me and to help whenever I needed something, which was quite often. When my husband was in his last illness, it was Pat who was always here if we needed her. She was someone whose opinion I valued and respected.

This year she first broke her leg which meant that our "Teddington In Flower" was in danger as she could hardly move but thankfully Maria Pemberton stepped in and took over the reins. On the day, a sitter dropped out at the last moment and Pat sat in at the Ellis's garden in

Holmesdale Road and this is the last photo I have of her sitting in the garage with Belinda Heal talking to Jenny Hilton. On July 5th she went to hospital for tests. Little did I think I would never see her again. I hope you will join me in sending condolences to Duncan, Dale, Anna and their children. The Society has sent a donation to the Princess Alice Hospice and Ann Sayer has already raised a

generous donation in a pyjama run which you can read about in her Riverside report.

History

Paddy Ching 8977 3091 sam.harold@hotmail.com

The History Group held one of its meetings at a house in Teddington that had had the date of 1561 on one of its walls and we were there to discuss its history. Some of you may have seen the house when its garden was opened for Teddington In Flower. Certainly the house was very old and it has some old stained glass windows which one of our group, Hilary Marshall, hopes to investigate for a future article. You can read more in the article on page 10.

We are indebted to our Corporate Member, Sam Kamleh of the Architects Gallery, for allowing us to display copies of our historic publications among the scrumptious works of art on show. It's still hard to think that this lovely modern gallery was once our public toilets! Ken Howe has also managed to sell copies of "Teddington As It Was" to Waterstone's but, try as he might, WHSmith are resistant. Strange when you see they stock the histories of Kingston and Greater London!!

Our work with Gardens on an information board for Elmfield Gardens is nearly done. The final proof has been passed and we hope to erect and unveil it in November. We hope you like it.

Riverside & Open Spaces

Ann Sayer 8977 9495 a.sayer1@which.net

Princess Alice Hospice Midnight Pyjama Walk on the night of September 8-9.

Our own Ann Sayer (suitably attired as shown) did this sponsored walk in memory of Pat Shuttleworth.

The high-lighted object of the walk was to raise money for the “8 to 8” nurses who look after patients in their own homes overnight. It costs £189 to fund a single 12 hour shift.

The walk started at 10 pm from St Mary’s University College in Strawberry Hill and covered 12 miles. There was

also an 8 mile version. The route began with a lap round the running track at St Mary’s, as trodden by the likes of Mo Farah and Usain Bolt, then went on roads through Twickenham, which included Church Street, over Richmond Bridge, along Petersham Road into Ham, doubled back along Duke’s Avenue into Riverside Drive and branched off along the path to Teddington Lock footbridge. Here was the site of the only checkpoint with hundreds (? thousands) of cup cakes - over the footbridge, along Broom Road, over Kingston Bridge, up Richmond Road into Ham again, along Dukes Avenue a second time and over the footbridge.

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To make up the 12 miles there was a short extra loop along Broom Road, St Winifred's Road and Kingston Road. The walkers then went along Teddington High Street and finally up Waldegrave Road back to St Mary’s College where a well-earned bacon butty awaited.

Conditions were ideal with well-lit streets and it was a lovely night – mild and still with a waning moon rising large and clear around 12.30 am. There were nearly 600 participants, many in teams wearing identical pyjamas.

I have raised over £500 at the time of writing but it is still not too late to donate, either by cheque made out to the Princess Alice Hospice and sent to me at 29 Twickenham Road, Teddington TW11 8AQ or via the JustGiving website at www.justgiving.com/Ann-sayer1

Illegal Moorings

The planned bylaw to curb illegal mooring along the river is still working its way through official processes and residents can still have their say on this issue. If you have encountered problems from boats illegally moored – e.g. littering, noise, cutting down of vegetation or intimidation from walking along the towpath, there is still time to contact the Council. You should email to David Allister at d.allister@richmond.gov.uk and copy to both Ann Sayer and Cllr Tania Mathias, Hampton Wick councillor, at cllr.tmathias@richmond.gov.uk.

Environment

David Lawton 8977 6778 janddlawton570@btinternet.com

In June we had a successful and well attended Riverside Pick, hauling in a record catch of 7 kg of recyclables, despite the event being moved from a Friday evening to a Saturday morning at the 11

th hour. We were

supported both by ‘LitterAction’, part of the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) now chaired by Sir Andrew Motion, former poet Laureate, and The Greater London Council’s Capital Cleans “Big Tidy Up”.

Our hardworking Committee then concerned themselves with getting our September ‘Street Give and Take’, (another way to recycle) off the ground. We’d selected Blandford Road as a comparatively well contained community. We discovered it had six Tedsoc

members living there. Also, the proximity to Bushy Park and a welter of walkers, with or without dogs, passing through the road, gave us great hope for success. We kicked off by introducing the Society to some new residents of Blandford Road, delivered flyers to every household, and

then followed this up with door-to-door personal calls to explain what we were up to, and gathering up “Givers”.

W e were b lessed w i th unerring support and help in the run-up and on the day from Blandford Road Tedsoc members, Ann Sweeney, Liz Butler and Sue Ribbans, and we went in knowing we had at least three quarters of the road signed-up. In addition, we had our own Tedsoc “stall”, and our team, clad in yellow tabards were out and about, first thing on the day, adding the finishing touches with yellow balloons, smiley ‘Please Take’ s igns, and giving a helping hand. The one unexpected bonus was the quite unseasonal heatwave, but whilst this tired us rather quickly, it did bring out the crowds - all adding to the “Street Party” atmosphere.

It was indeed a successful day, both in providing people with an additional way to recycle, and by making it a “Community” event. Even those who had not been able to find things to give away were out on the road getting involved. Additionally, we had visitors; two local councillors, near neighbours, and a sprinkle of Tedsoc members. As one resident said, “The atmosphere was great and I chatted with people I had never spoken to before, in spite of having lived in Blandford Road for 24 years. And I never knew that I had 4 garden forks and 4 garden spades until I started hunting for things. I also discovered 2 unused bicycles - amazing what you find when you look!” Surely, very positive publicity on how TEG and Tedsoc can make Teddington “Even Better”. There are already enquiries for more G+T’s to be run, and luckily we even managed a few column inches in the Richmond & Twickenham Times.

A clean-up of the Cedar Road and Tesco recycling sites was carried out later in September, and the Committee met in October to look at the problems of ‘smoking related’ litter.

We have continued to keep tabs on errant posters in Teddington, still the worst examples being circus and car breaker signs. Where there has been a problem on ‘local’ adverts, we continue with a softly-softly approach of making informal contact and advising.

In a slight adjustment to our calendar, there are no litterpicks or Graffiti Cleans proposed until Saturday November 10

th, the day before the Remembrance

Service.

Planning

Michael Foss Contact point: Brian Lane 8943 0811 or email to all@angelalane.plus.com

Extensions and Loft Conversions Of all the arts, it is architecture, perhaps alongside sculpture, that is the most public. Nowadays most new building, and the transformation of existing ones, takes place in an urban setting, with frontages which face onto communal space. Like it or not, these buildings make a public statement. They are understandably a prime

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concern of the planning process, and of the Teddington Society’s Planning Group.

New buildings normally require planning consent but there is a whole range of alterations which fall within ‘Permitted Development’ and need no authorisation (details can be found on the net on the government ‘Planning Portal’). Fortunately, house owners often submit planning applications even when these are not technically required. This gives us an opportunity to intervene when we believe the proposals are detrimental to the townscape. Our aim is never to hammer applicants, but rather to encourage them to look for an alternative, more sensitive, formulation for their scheme.

Three recent examples of this are 135 Park Road (application 12/1469), 80 Fairfax Road (application. 12/2681) and 171 Church Road (application 12/0653). In the first two instances the proposed side extension would break the symmetry of the roofline of a pair of semis, creating an unbalanced frontage. While fully recognising the desire of owners to extend their houses, we believe this is an inelegant solution which should be avoided if at all possible (one approach could be for neighbours to agree a balanced extension scheme). In each case we registered an objection.

The owner of 135 Park Road – whose plan could have gone forward under Permitted Development – has now

removed this part of the application and received approval for the remainder. 80 Fairfax Road awaits resolution.

We also registered an objection to the scheme for 171 Church Road. This house stands on the corner of Church

Road and Clifton Road, and the roof is very visible from

the roadway. We considered that the proposed dormer windows would destroy the unity of the roof and be undesirably prominent. The application was refused; a later one has been approved, replacing the dormers by veluxes which are much less obtrusive.

Each of these schemes is in itself relatively unimportant (although not, of course, to the house owner) but it is by the protection and enhancement of individual buildings, even modest ones, that the overall townscape can be improved. Over time, this is what has happened, as anyone who has lived in Teddington for a number of years can testify.

Boathouses.

Thanks to the good offices of Ian Jones-Healey, the Archivist at the Langdon Down Museum, we have recently learned of the existence of a splendid boathouse which belonged to Normansfield Hospital. Dr. Langdon Down wanted a boathouse, so bought a narrow strip of land running from the hospital to the riverbank. The boathouse now stands there, hidden, at the end of Broom Close.

It is perhaps the finest of the four or five Victorian boathouses strung along the Teddington riverside. Most already have BTM status; this one, unaccountably, does not, and we have contacted the council Planning Department, which has agreed to get it listed.

Roads and Transport

Brian Holder 8977 1579 Brianholder99@aol.com

1. Olympic cycle races and future events

As can be seen from the photographs on page 5, Teddington played a major role in the successful running of all the Olympic Road Racing events, even though torrential rain made conditions for the ladies’ race quite treacherous. Bradley Wiggins dominated the time trial, but he and Team GB failed to spot the risk of a breakaway group in the men’s race and were left well behind eventual winner Vinokourov. Lizzie Armistead rode brilliantly in the very wet ladies’ road race and

171 Church Road

135 Park Road

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finished with a silver, just a few feet behind winner Holland’s Marianne Vos. Full marks to Traffic Engineer, Lisa Fenn, her Richmond colleagues, and the TfL staff involved in the organisation of the Torch Relay and Cycle races.

2. Removal of all lighting, including safety lighting, on footbridge between Linden Grove and Somerset Road

As a result of receiving a number of complaints from very concerned local residents, I visited the bridge at 22.45 pm on Thursday, 20th September. The two modern lights at the entrances to the bridge were alight, although the one in Somerset Road was almost invisible due to overgrowth of vegetation. For the bridge itself, it was pitch black, with absolutely no over-spill lighting from anywhere. I am not a nervous person but would think twice about using the bridge after dark. As the clocks go back shortly, pupils attending after school clubs, and everyone else, will have to go up to the High Street or down to Shacklegate Lane to cross the railtrack, to avoid this very dark and rather frightening area.

It is not known who is responsible for the unexplained, and completely unjustifiable, removal of all lighting from this very important public right of way between east and west Teddington. The bridge is heavily used by local residents and families, especially those with children going to St Marys & St Peters Primary School, office workers, including those at Tear Fund, an international charity, and many other local organisations and businesses. I have since written to all my Network Rail, Southwest Trains and Council contacts, and provided photographs to confirm all lights are missing and asked for immediate replacement. After some exchanges of correspondence, I have been told that the Council is submitting plans for new lighting – which we have asked to be installed before 28th October when the clocks go back. I have also asked the local Police Safer Neighbourhood Team to step up its surveillance of the area to ensure the safety of all users, especially children.

3. Route 481 – request for doubling service fails again

I spoke to Keith Jacques of TfL bus section recently to remind him that TeddSoc had a long-standing request for the 481 service to be doubled – it was not his responsibility but he did check with colleagues and found that the minimum loading criteria for a twice hourly service has still not quite been met. So we need everyone to use the 481 whenever possible to get the passenger numbers up – I have also emailed a reminder to everyone on my email news list. The next review is in two years, but could be earlier if numbers are proven to be higher.

I also mentioned the lack of a bus service along Broom Road which forces residents to drive up to the Kingston Road area to catch a bus into Kingston – Kingston parking charges are becoming very high now, and those of us lucky enough to have a Freedom Pass can avoid these by using the bus. Even a Dial a Ride service would be useful.

4. “Improvements” to Teddington’s centre area without proper consultation

The All in One Village consultation took place in Elleray Hall a while ago and, on the basis of comments made by the fairly small number of attendees, officers have come up with schemes for “improvements”. Unfortunately, this

has produced some proposals for central Teddington that are not really essential, and constructive comments about the proposals from Jenny Hilton and me have been completely ignored - we have yet to receive a response. Hence, The Causeway pavements and kerbs have been replaced when there was nothing wrong with the original pavements, our request for the centre of The Causeway to be raised to kerb level to create a suitable surface for Farmers’ Markets, etc., has been completely ignored, and the dreadful uneven tarmac areas around all the sycamore trees in Park Lane still remain trip hazards. The much-needed extensions to the off-road cycle lanes on both sides of the railway bridge still haven’t been put in place, although funds were available. The money spent on unnecessary schemes would more than pay for the work that we would like to see done.

The Causeway ad hoc Working Group

No further representations were made by any members on the proposals outlined in the last Tidings regarding The Causeway so it has now been submitted. We have made contact with the representatives of Causeway House and encouraged them to lower the asking rents for the vacant shops. We are pleased to note the opening of Stepping On Out - a charity card shop in the former Lock shop. We have not had any success with the representatives of the owners of the former Bottoms Up shop so we are tracking down the owners to try and get them to engage with us, as the re-letting of this shop is key to revitalising the street.

The Council gave us one week to comment on their street improvement plans for The Causeway, Broad Street and Park Lane. Comments were submitted by the Society but the Council has ploughed on with just repaving but agreed to consider opportunities for tree planting. Any works to improve the street are most welcome but we look forward to engaging with the planners on our Position Statement as this would have far greater impact on the vitality and viability of The Causeway. A draft paper on creating a Town Square in front of Elmfield House has been prepared and is being discussed within the Planning Group.

Jeremy Sandle

Teddington Station 150th Anniversary ad hoc Working Group

There was a very good response to the call for volunteers to look at producing some historical notes about Teddington Station and the possibility of having some kind of celebrations to mark its 150

th anniversary

next year on 1 July.

The composition of the group is currently: Terry Bray, Martin Elengorn, Tony and Jeanne Gask, Ken Howe, Nick Lewin, Carl Lowndes, Tony Mansell, Pamela McHutchon and Mike Woods. Carl is the manager of the Park Hotel, one of our newest Corporate members. The Park Hotel was rebuilt at the same time as the station.

Mike Woods

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UDNEY FARM, 44 CROMWELL ROAD & APPLEBY

In 1834 George Augustus Frederick Cunningham, grandson

of Robert Udney, inherited Udney House which stood on the

west corner of Kingston Lane. In 1844, he acquired the

adjoining property which included the Old House, or Queen

Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge, which for many years had been a

farm and 58 acres of land to the south. He was granted

permission to demolish the farm buildings near the High Street

provided he erected buildings of equal capacity and value

elsewhere on the estate. So he built a house and farm

buildings on the corner of Kingston Lane where it turns south-

east to meet Kingston Road. Cromwell Road had not been

opened at this time.

The farm house,

built on the south

side of Kingston

Lane, is now 44

Cromwell Road. It

was described as an

ornamental building

with a high gabled

roof, stone mullions

to the upright windows and portico with stone steps to the

doorway. The farm buildings to the east of the house were

demolished in 1985 and Kingston Close was built on the site.

The new farm house was much too elaborate for the farmer

and was leased separately. The farmer and his family took up

residence in a house in Kingston Road, near the south end of

the farm on the corner of Bushy Park Road (opened in 1862).

The farm stretched from Kingston Road to R.D. Blackmore's

land on the west. The path continued south to Bushy Park and

from behind the High Street property to Sandy Lane. Cromwell

Road was opened in 1866, following part of a footpath across

the fields which led to R.D. Blackmore's orchards but then

continued west to the new railway station. By the 1880s large

houses had been built on the south side of Cromwell Road.

In 1921, under the Government Housing Policy, local

authorities were required to build as many houses as they

could and let them at low rents to satisfy the housing shortage

after the Great War of 1914-18. Local councils were expected

to spend the equivalent of a penny rate from their resources:

the government supplied the rest. Teddington Urban District

Council bought the land between the Udney Farm buildings

and the houses in Kingston Road. The cost to the government

was higher than anticipated and within a year the scheme was

dropped. However the building programme in Teddington was

well advanced and 104 semi-detached houses were built on

the Udney Park Estate and more on the Mays Estate off

Wellington Road. The farm buildings remained intact and cows

were reared on land to the south of Cromwell Road.

Where Kingston Close is now, there was a dairy farm. The

cows for milking were driven through to St. Mark's Road to the

milking shed which is still there. The milk was taken to Pyke's

Dairy on the corner of St. Mark's Road and either sold there or

taken in churns on a cart and ladled out to the houses in jugs.

No health and safety then! The dairy was later the United

Dairy and now is a Dentist's. The cows could have been driven

through the fields before the Middlesex County Council school

was built, now a Catholic School. Or they could have gone

through the Udney Park Estate, in those days called the

"White City". Those houses were built after the First World

War for heroes to come back to. They were subsequently

pulled down and replaced with the present houses and flats.

In June 1929, permission was given to build 36 Cromwell

Road, west of the farm house. By 1934, Nos. 36-42 had been

built, leaving an empty site to the rear of part of Nos. 40, 42

and 44 with a narrow entrance to the east side of No. 44

leading to it. About the time of the 1939-45 war, the manor

house of Cranford St. John near Heathrow, also known as

Cranford House, and its surrounding buildings were pulled

down. It is understood that material from these buildings was

salvaged and used in the house erected on the site to the rear

of Nos .42-44. Planning permission had been granted for a

house to be built on this site in 1938 but it is not known

whether anything had been built here at this time. The house

is now called Appleby (some of its stained glass windows are

shown here) and is reached

by the narrow lane to the

east of No.44. There is a

notice on one wall of the

present building bearing the

date 1561. Part of the original

house may have been built at

this time but it was not built in

Teddington. The original

Cranford House is said to have had traces of its Tudor

existence but much of the old building had been altered in

1722.

Paddy Ching, Norman Simmons

Appleby

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LONDON IN BLOOM RESULTS

This year Richmond won the London In Bloom Borough of the Year Award 2012, finally beating our arch rival Kensington & Chelsea who've held top spot for years. We won Gold and were then voted Category Winner of City Group B. This means we are the best in Greater London. This award was helped by Teddington with all its hanging baskets particularly in the High Street. The judges were

very impressed as they toured from Waldegrave Road, looping round the Causeway (with our adopted planter) and all the way along the High Street to the river. Terrace Gardens in Richmond won Gold in Large Park of the Year with York House garden winning Gold in Park of the Year and Twickenham picked up Silver Gilt for Town Centre under 1 sq km. Barnes Common was awarded Silver Gilt in Common of the Year and the Borough got 2nd place in the Biodiversity Award. There is no doubt that the Richmond Borough In Bloom campaign which the Society has supported for many years made a significant contribution to the result. Our photo shows Cllr Virginia Morris, the Cabinet Member for Environment, holding the London In Bloom award flanked by Des Smith, LBRuT Parks and me from the Bloom Committee. Well done everyone especially Pat Schooling who has chaired the Bloom Committee for 23 years.

Sheena Harold

Proposed Turing House Secondary School at NPL, Queens Road The Middlesex side of the river will need a new “open to all” secondary school in the very near future with some 330 additional primary places having recently been created in Hampton, Hampton Wick, Teddington and Twickenham to meet ever expanding demand. A solution might have been to utilise the old Twickenham Girls School in Clifden Road but that is to become a selective Catholic-only school, so most of the 330 pupils would not be able to go there. There is a legal challenge by way of a Judicial Review which seeks making the Clifden Road school non-selective, so all children living around the school would have a chance to go there, but this is being strongly contested by Richmond Council.

The Turing School will specialise in Engineering, Science and Music, and according to a presentation at Stanley Primary School on 17th October, the proposal for the new school will be lodged with the Department for Education on 17th December, interviews will take place in February 2013, and first stage approval should be in June 2013, with first pupils being accepted in September 2014. Building 2, adjacent to Bushy House on the NPL site, is pencilled in as a possible building to house the school but it is probably too small for a school roll of 1050 and there are many planning hurdles to be crossed, including the fact that the building was to be demolished to create an open vista all round Bushy House. At the moment, no planning application has been made for the use of the NPL site and other sites will have to be considered before any final application is submitted. Over a thousand parents have already expressed an interest in the new school.

This could impact across several groups on the Executive Committee and we’ll keep a close watch on how it progresses.

Brian Holder

CONCERT Fund Raiser

Tony and Philly Lamb are members of the Teddington Society with Tony being the principal Clarinet of the English National Opera Orchestra. They are organising a concert in Teddington to help raise funds for Teddington Summer Music - an event consisting of three contrasting concerts, and takes place in three different venues, in June

2013.

Based on the idea of the traditional Vienna New Year concerts, the programme includes music by J.STRAUSS (from Die Fledermaus), LEHAR (The Merry Widow), BRAHMS, DVORAK and VANHAL

Performers:

MAUD MILLAR Soprano ALEX KNOX Baritone TONY LAMB Clarinet TOM HIGGINS Piano

Introduced by Richard Fawkes

Venue: St. Mary with St. Albans, Time: Saturday 5th January 2013 at 7.30 Tickets: £10 (concessions £7).

For more information, please contact Tony at

tonyandphilly@hotmail.com

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Society People Message from Bridget Evans

Dear Editor May I take just a few lines of your Newsletter to thank you for publishing Mike Foss’s generous words about my time on the Executive Committee of the Teddington Society. I am sure all your readers will understand that it was with a heavy heart that we made the decision to move away from Teddington. We made our first home in River Reach in 1968 and then spent a very happy 35 years in Cromwell Road. (By chance, we moved in as the Queen marked her first 25 years on the throne and left as she celebrated her Diamond Jubilee.) We are very happy in our new home but miss the friendly faces, green spaces and the convenience of Teddington. Returning recently from three weeks in France, Alun and I were discussing our route home as we came off the boat at Portsmouth. It soon became clear that in both our minds we were heading for Teddington! For a variety of reasons, we shall be returning to Teddington frequently. In the meanwhile I look forward to hearing about the Society through Tidings. It has to be one of the most successful amenity groups there is and, with the new initiative to work more closely with the business community, will undoubtedly achieve even greater goals. Good luck, and look out for us in the High Street any day now.

Bridget Evans

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Curious to find out more about an inherited item of furniture, we took it along to the Antiques Roadshow when it came to Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club in August 2011. Arriving in pouring rain, we were soon talking to furniture expert, Lennox Cato, who, together with the producer, decided to include it in the show. We were then taken to the ‘green room’, where we spent a large part of the day waiting for our slot. Tea, coffee and sandwiches were provided and we passed the time talking to others in the same position and watching well-known faces being made up for camera in a corner of the room.

Susan and Stephen with Lennox Cato We were finally filmed around 4pm, by which time it had stopped raining and we learned that we had a priedieu, made in northern Italy around 1760-1780 and worth about £1,500. The show was finally broadcast in April and, no, we are not selling the priedieu. We were just pleased to find out more about it and to experience the Antiques Roadshow at first hand.

Susan and Stephen Lowit

SKY TV NEWS Back in March when, unbelievably given all the rain we've had, Thames Water imposed a hose pipe ban on us, I was phoned by Sky TV News wanting an interview. Sadly they weren't interested in the efforts that we at Richmond In Bloom make to teach schools the value of water saving and drought resistant planting. We even have a special Park & Bloom category to stop people paving over their front gardens and losing rainwater to the

sewers. No, they wanted to film a gardener. As I had practically no voice I offered Alan Drake whose lovely garden in Teddington Park has been visited by

hundreds of you over the years. Alan duly obliged saying how difficult it is to carry heavy cans of water especially with a damaged Achilles tendon. The item went out on the news and Alan's sister saw it in New England, phoning to ask why he hadn't been on for longer!

Sheena Harold

TEDDINGTON SOCIETY

We welcome the following new members:

Mr. Brian Bolton. Nick, Minnie and Will Harris Mrs. Rachel Arthur Helene and Jeremy Hurle Geoff and Katy Formstone Mrs Betty Hainey

Alan Drake

OBITUARY - PIP TEMLETT

2.8.1909 - 14.8.2012

It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating Pip's 100th birthday and now there's an empty chair in Peg Woffington's front room. Each coffee morning you could guarantee that Pip would be holding court at a large table on the right hand side as you entered Tony & Betty's lovely cottage. Even though nearly blind and hard of hearing Pip was 'in charge'. I can still hear her stentorian cry of: "Sheena, Is that you?" At the grand old age of 103 Pip passed away peacefully in her sleep having had her hair and nails done the day before. A truly 'grand dame' Pip had supported both the Conservative Party and our Hospital for years and both were represented in large numbers at her memorial service. I’m sure you’ll join me in sending our commiserations to son Peter and her large, loving family.

Sheena Harold

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WE NEED YOU From time to time we need help from you, our members. We know that many of you want to help and that you all have skills and experience which can benefit the Society’s work. How much help do we need? That’s like asking, how long is a piece of string? It varies – it could be a couple of hours on just one day, a few hours a month or longer. The amount of time you commit will be down to you. We had a marvellous response to our call for help in our last issue of Tidings. Our Station Anniversary group now has 10 enthusiastic members, we have Mo and Judith who have volunteered to report on local police issues (see this page) and a new feature contributor (see page 3). Our membership questionnaire last year highlighted the need to get more involvement from individual members. We’ve made a good a start – let’s keep it up.

A NEW TEAM WANTED FOR A

COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Other recommendations that fell out of the membership questionnaire were that we should review our communications channels with members and make more use of modern technologies to keep in touch with members and to keep them informed. The types of activities we are considering include:

• Regular email updates about upcoming events

• Possible use of Twitter and similar media channels (did you know that the fastest growing group of Facebook users are in the 50-60 age group?)

• Sharing some news gathering activities for Tidings (see e.g. Judith and Mo on this page providing Crime Reports)

• Contacting new members

• Social get-to-know-us events for new members

• Recruit your neighbour campaigns

As the Editor I have already started digitising our library of previous issues of Tidings. For some issues, this might involve scanning and/or OCR conversion to word and/or proof-reading, etc.: for others, the task is easier.

There are other areas where it would also be useful to create archives. For example, a picture gallery for our website would be welcome.

These kinds of activities can be taken in bite-size chunks and preferably as a team. Doing things as a team is much more sociable and fun, it shares the load and it opens up the doors to new ideas.

The first imperative then is to get together a team so that we can discuss the options in more detail and then share out the various activities. You don’t need to be an expert – it’s the enthusiasm that counts.

So, if you feel like a new challenge and want to help YOUR SOCIETY, give me a call (8977 5642) or drop me an email (mike.woods@blueyonder.co.uk). I’m not into Tweets yet but I could be persuaded if someone can teach me how.

Mike Woods

LOCAL CRIME REPORTS Following my plea for help in the last issue of Tidings, I am pleased to let you know that two Metropolitan Police Volunteers, who are also

members of the Teddington Society, Judith Schomberg (top) and Mo Mott (bottom), have agreed to produce a reader-friendly report for Tidings on a regular basis.

The Teddington Police Liaison Group meets every 3-4 months, locally, to which all members of the public are invited. These meetings are held to enable you to comment on and discuss the level and

effectiveness of police activity, crime numbers or any other issue you may have.

The next meeting takes place on Wednesday 28 November at 7.30pm. If you have any issues you would like to have answers to, please let Mo know at moira.mott@btinternet.com

Editor

A NEW BROOM WANTED FOR

THE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

After a number of years of working with the Society’s dedicated Environment Group and the happy band of helpers, it is time for me to let someone else take the lead, and we are looking for someone to do just that. The Environment Group is an active one with a love of a CLEAN TEDDINGTON. After almost 40 years on the Teddington front, firstly known as “Nasty Smells”, then “Clean-up Teddington”, latterly “Teddington Tidy Group” and now “the Environment Group”, our job’s really still the same. Just look about us. This vital Teddington amenity must remain firmly on the map. We have a Committee that does all the thinking and a HelpTeam who are ever willing to lend a hand. The new leader will take us forward into the Society’s momentous fortieth year. Maybe this is something you’ve always wanted to do – why not make it a job share and have two volunteers - it’s certainly GOOD, CLEAN, and HEALTHY FUN. Please give me a call on 8977 6778 or e.mail me at janddlawton570@btinternet.com

David Lawton

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.BUSINESS EXCHANGE

Gillian Million, one of our new Corporate members, designs and creates wedding accessories and bespoke luxuries for brides all over the world, including celebrity and royal clients. Gillian set about designing her own headdress when she found

that she couldn’t find the right hair accessories to compliment her wedding dress for her New Year’s Eve wedding in 1999. Excited by the result and encouraged by the enthusiastic response of others, Gillian Million was launched in February 2002. Her designs feature regularly in fashion and celebrity magazines and within months of launching, Liberty in Regent Street took the entire Gillian Million collection followed by a full page feature in the Saturday Telegraph! After working from home in Teddington and bringing up her two boys Zach and Josh with her husband Brett, Gillian opened her first shop in November 2010. She now has the shop at 34 High Street, TW11 8EW Phone: 020 8977 0588 and website www.gillianmillion.com

David Nash writes: Woodgate-Loydor Ltd was established in Teddington in 1970. Formerly the site belonged to Loydor Press who were similarly printers, type setters and compositors. For over 40 years now we have been printing and supplying paper to the business community both locally and nationally. We are a family run business providing print and office supplies solutions. Over the last 40 years, printing techniques have changed dramatically and we have always strived to keep up to date with the latest printing and finishing equipment. Today we host a range of Heidelberg presses - full CTP output and digital print facility as well. We have our own in-house studio for design/artworking and we have recently achieved our carbon silver award for our commitment to environmental process improvement and our clean manufacturing processes. We produce anything from a simple business card to a complex corporate brochure and have just been awarded the contract to print the Best of Richmond guide - a wonderful local publication that shouts about the best businesses in the Borough! We’re proud of our heritage and hope to be in the area for many years to come!

GIRASOLE

Girasole, an Italian delicatessen & restaurant at 154 High Street, opened in 2008. Available also for private bookings, the owner, Luciano Bolognini, owes much of its success to his team headed by chef, Gennaro, and manageress, Nora (pictured below). To repeat a review in Teddington People: “when you are spending money having lunch service is very important as well as the food -

sometimes in teddington i feel like people just take your money and if they are busy it seems to be your fault. not so in girasole - the italian dark haired lady really cares about the selection of food they have to offer and what you would like to eat - service always with a smile and a caring attitude.”

We warmly welcome our

new Corporate Members

PARK HOTEL ELLERAY HALL SAN MARINO MAIL UK LTD

and are grateful to all our Corporate Members for their continued support

A1 Collectables Ltd

Architecture:wk

British Maritime Technology

Broom Water Association

Dexters

Diners Delight

Eaton Publications

Elements

Financial Planning Group

Fun Factory

Gillian Million

Girasole

Haymarket Publishing

Kagan Moss & Co

Kindle Stoves

Kitchen Sync

Landmark Arts Centre

La Casa Del Habano

Lensbury Club

Malo Clinic Teddington

Mela Mela

Milestone Residential

National Physical Laboratory

Nova Fortuny

Park Lane Stables

Parsonage & Co

Richard Steer & Co

Roger Sutton & Co

Royal British Legion

Shambles Bar & Restaurant

Sims Opticians

Snellers

Squires Garden Centre

Stevens Tyres

Stoneydeep Residents Assn

Studio 148

Tamesis Club

Teddington Artists

Teddington Bowling Club

Teddington Cricket Club

Teddington Riverside Artists

Teddnet

The Tree Agency

TW11 Magazine

Woodgate-Loydor

2 Elmfield Avenue, TW11 8BS Em: sales@woodgateoffice.co.uk Web: woodgateoffice.co.uk/index.php

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QUIZ CORNER We return to one of your favourites this time – a Wordsearch. In keeping with the Olympic theme in this issue, we have taken 24 countries who participated in the Olympics, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet (there were no countries whose names started with W or X. 23 of these have been placed in the grid – horizontally, vertically or diagonally and in either direction. All we need to know is which country does not appear in the grid.

A1 Collectables Ltd, our Corporate Member, is now trading as www.dragontoys.co.uk. To mark this change, they have donated Riley, a gorgeous and unique Teddy from the Charlie Bear range. An ideal Xmas present for someone in your family – or just be selfish for once and have it all for yourself. First correct answer out of the hat wins the first prize. Teddington Society mugs to the 2

nd

and 3rd

drawn. (Please note the earlier deadline.)

Countries in the grid (except one) Albania Barbados

Colombia Dominica

Eritrea France

Guyana Honduras

Iceland Japan

Kyrgyzstan Lesotho

Myanmar Nauru

Oman Panama

Qatar Rwanda

Slovenia Togo

Uzbekistan Vietnam

Yemen Zimbabwe

Solution and Winners – Issue no. 158 Only two entrants succeeded in getting 10 correct answers for our History quiz. First prize, a £30 voucher kindly donated by Shambles Bar & Restaurant, goes to M. Trowbridge and second prize, a Teddington Society mug, was won by Pauline Bunting.

The answers we were looking for were:

Q1: Benny Hill Q2: St. Mary’s

Q3: R D Blackmore Q4: Lamprey

Q5: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

Q6: National Physical Laboratory

Q7: Barnes Wallis Q8: Noel Coward

Q9: Rev. Stephen Hales Q10: 1811

E E Z S U R A Y K H L N A R I

N C T G L R A N E M E Y A V A

N O N S U O C R N A S P I M Z

A A A A A Y V N A C O E A Y A

O I T L R S A E R I T R E A D

H B S S B F D N N N H A O N R

N M Z G I A E Y A I O V G M L

E O Y O E K N M G M A Z D A E

E L G O W R E I A O O M S R A

A O R Q B A R B A D O S B C T

T C Y A A A A J Z D N N A R N

M G K T B H O N D U R A S F A

R M Q A M A N A P A J U W M O

R A O R I C E L A N D R N R T

R R R O Z A R M N N O U A M N

HOW TO ENTER Simply send your answer to:

The Editor 152 Broom Road Teddington, Middlesex TW11 9PQ

or by email to

mike.woods@blueyonder.co.uk

Make sure you give your name, address and phone number.

Deadline for entries is:

Monday 17th December

Good luck. Open to all members

Q4 highlighted that lampreys and eels are often mistaken to be the same. An extract from The British anglers manual, or The art of angling in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (1841) by Thomas Christopher Hofland states:

The Lamprey, Lamperne or Seven Eyes The lamprey much resembles the silver eel in colour and shape; but has seven holes, like shot-holes, on each side of the head; from whence it has been supposed to have been gifted with so many eyes. The Thames abounds with this fish: formerly, lampernes were taken in great numbers between Battersea and Teddington, and sold to the Dutch, as bait for the turbot, cod, and other fisheries. Four hundred thousand have been sold for this purpose, in one season, at the rate of forty shillings per thousand; the Thames itself, alone, supplied upwards of a million lampernes annually.

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2 Elmfield Avenue, Teddington TW11 8BS Page 16

SOCIETY EVENTS

� Saturday November 10th

Litterpick at the Remembrance Memorial outside Teddington Hospital at 10.00 am. All volunteers welcome.

� Thursday November 22nd

First of our lunches at Merits. If you haven’t already booked, please let Angela know asap if you would like to come. (8977 0167). Merits is the Cookery College off Egerton Road which is off the A316 at Twickenham. Please arrive soon after 12 o’clock.

� Sunday November 25th Festive Farmers Market

behind Teddington Hospital from 10 am - 2 pm.

� Thursday November 29th

Teddington Lights Up. Come and enjoy the turning on of the Christmas lights and indulge yourself in some of our great collection of individual shops in High Street and Broad Street.

� Friday November 30th

Second of our Merits lunches. Almost full. Same place, same time as the first lunch – see above.

� Saturday January 5th

Concert at St Mary’s with St. Albans 7.30 pm (see page 11).

� Saturday January 26th

Teddington Society New Year Party at St. Mary’s Parish Hall. See insert. Please feel free to bring some of your own delicacies and nibbles for all of us to share. All contributions to the buffet will be very welcome! Please email rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk if you would like further details.

� Thursday March 7th

and Tuesday March 19th

Guided Tour of Legal London and Lunch at Middle Temple. This walk will be a repeat of the one which was so popular early this year when no less than 80 members wanted to come. Many had to be disappointed so we have arranged for two more dates. Please call to book (more details can be found in Tidings Spring 2012 issue).

Cost – Guide £8. Middle Temple lunch £20. We will take the 9.41 am train from Teddington to Waterloo.

We want everyone out and about on Thursday 29th November when The Mayor switches on our Christmas Lights. Fun and frolics for everyone starting at 4pm with Storytelling for the little ones at the Library. Then at 5.30pm in the gardens outside Elmfield House, choristers from Churches Together In Teddington sing carols which you can all join in with.

In the last "Tidings" we said we'd asked Lee Mack to come and help us Light Up. Sadly his schedule wouldn't let him this year but he's asked his friend, fellow comedy star Tim Vine to do the honours. We're indebted to Lee and his lovely wife Tara for helping us. Tim is starring as Wishee Washee in Aladdin at Richmond Theatre from Dec. 7th. As I write this, Tim is somewhere on the high seas entertaining on a cruise ship so let's hope he gets back into port in time to do some of his fast wisecracking for us at 6pm. Will the Mayor get a word in edgeways? Good job we've got our M.C. John Demont on hand to organise the countdown. Once the Lights are on from the River to the Hospital, our former printer Paul Bann & his band, Sounds Familiar, will entertain us with live music.

There will be special offers, tastings and happenings all over town, so look in the Library for information. We hope to get the High Street closed to traffic from 5.30-8.30pm without causing too much inconvenience for just this one evening in the whole year. You should be able to dance the night away with Santa and his Reindeer in complete safety.

The perfect evening to buy your Christmas presents as shops will stay open til late. We want you all to have fun.

Sheena Harold The Teddington Society membership application form

TITLE…… SURNAME………………………………………...............

FIRST NAMES……………………………………………………………

ADDRESS………………………………………………………………….

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POSTCODE ………… TELEPHONE……………………………..

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RATES: Individual £5 Family £7 Senior £3 Joint Senior £4

Corporate £25 Please circle any groups you are interested in joining:

Historical Research Planning Roads & Transport

Gardens Riverside & Open Spaces Environment

Cheques should be made payable to:

The Teddington Society

Please return to Sally Howland, 54 Elmfield Avenue,

Teddington, TW11 8BT

For Standing Order payments, please contact Sally

Booking for visits is essential Call Angela Carvill on 8977 0167

Coffee Mornings

at

Peg Woffington’s Cottage 167 High Street, Teddington

at 11.00 am

Tuesday November 13th

Tuesday December 11th

Wednesday February 27th

Come and enjoy Tony and Betty’s coffee and cakes

and meet other members of the Society

All welcome

GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS