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Concert season 0
- Arts
- 1st December 2019
The new season of Thames Concerts, in the glorious setting of St Andrew’s, Maple Road, continues on Sat, Jan 18 with Katherine Dienes-Williams performing works by Widor, Liszt and Bach on the organ. There are also free market day concerts on Dec 21, Jan 18 and Feb 15, at 10.30am, coinciding with the farmers’ market
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The power of print 0
- Arts
- 1st December 2019
Loraine Monk’s striking exhibition of black and white linoprints, woodcuts and banners depicting the life and work of Denise Wren, one of Britain’s first female studio potters, runs at Kingston Museum until January 11. Loraine, a former Bond Road resident, is artist in residence at the museum in Wheatfield Way; her work inspired by social
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Bee Dance 0
- Arts
- 1st December 2019
A Surbiton artist has created a remarkable art installation in Nevada… and hopes to bring it to England. Andrea Greenlees of Langley Avenue made the 21ft high, 25ft wide Bee Dance from steeI and copper for a festival called Burning Man. “It celebrates one of the most wonderful examples of communication in the natural world;
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Blues lose ability to create 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 30th November 2019
If referee Jon Moss had added an hour and five minutes of stoppage time to the end of this perplexing London derby instead of merely five minutes, Chelsea still wouldn’t have scored. In a match which felt like a weird Life on Mars throwback to the 70s or 80s, the Blues came up against a
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Blue on Blue 0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 30th November 2019
It’s Blue on Blue action this weekend as Chelsea Women travel up to Southport to face in-form Everton. The Toffees have an intriguing record against Chelsea. In the first half dozen WSL clashes between the two sides, Everton only lost once… beating the Blues on every other occasion. But in their last half dozen league
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Hit for six by Sobers 0
- History, Sport
- 28th November 2019
Hanging from a string at the doorway of a recently opened Surbiton cafe is a cricket ball. It’s at Coffee on the Corner, where Beaconsfield Road meets King Charles Road. But what is it doing suspended there? It commemorates the mighty six scored by arguably the greatest cricketing all-rounder of all time, Garry Sobers, who
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