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It’s breakthrough time!0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 6th September 2019
This season is the breakthrough season for women’s football, Chelsea Women’s manager Emma Hayes believes as she looks forward to a groundbreaking opening tie against Spurs at the holy-of-holies, Stamford Bridge, on Sunday lunchtime. Completely sold out, the match will see Chelsea Women go toe-to-toe with newly promoted Tottenham Women at 12.30pm… a situation Hayes
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Blades slice through 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 31st August 2019
The last throw of the dice… the late substitutions of youngsters Billy Gilmour, wearing 47, and Michy Batshuayi, as Chelsea clung on to their precarious 2-1 lead over Sheffield United at the Bridge. But the Blades, and manager Chris Wilder – on the right of the touchline group – were celebrating at the end after
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Sharon Wright’s Brontë book 0
- Arts, History
- 30th August 2019
Surbiton author Sharon Wright, pictured, has excited the literary world with a biography unearthing a Regency tale of passion: The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick. “There’s been huge interest from Brontë fans and scholars,” said Sharon, of Cleaveland Road, after Pen & Sword published the book about Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë’s
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Celebrating prolific historian 0
- History
- 30th August 2019
Decades of writing by June Sampson (pictured), ex-Surrey Comet features editor and doyenne of local historians, were marked at a garden party attended by 100 at St Luke’s, Kingston, organised by Surbiton historian and membership secretary of the Friends of Kingston Museum and Heritage Service Bob Phillips, who co-wrote The Story of Tolworth with Pat
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A fragrant outing to the sewage works 1
- History
- 30th August 2019
Once you’d have needed a clothes peg on your nose to survive a visit to the Hogsmill sewage works. Now a tour of the Hogsmill Clean Water Depot requires no such precautions. On a scorching day, when unpleasant whiffs would have been all too obvious, the Thames Water site produced nothing but a good impression.
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75 years on… a doodlebug 0
- History
- 30th August 2019
Ernie Allen was crouching under the stairs with his mum when the doodlebug hit Tolworth Park Road on Derby Day 1944. The five-year-old was shaken, but uninjured. Numbers 61 to 69 on the opposite side of the road were wiped out, with the backs of homes in parallel Ravenscar Road seriously damaged. It was the single
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