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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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Work like Ben Stokes!0
- Chelsea First Team
- 30th August 2019
If Chelsea can adopt the work ethic of cricketing superhero Ben Stokes, then success will be theirs. That’s the message from Frank Lampard, Blues gaffer, who admits he’s still in a state of delighted shock at England’s barnstorming fightback in the Ashes test at Headingley in which Stokes almost single-handedly reversed what appeared to be
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Summer: ice cream, vomit & stress 0
- Opinion
- 30th August 2019
A maths puzzle. What is the sum of 372 hours queuing at Chessington World of Adventures + 211 trips to the Kingfisher x 78 cups of coffee consumed while staring into the middle distance in soft play areas + 102 laps of Richmond Park trying to find a parking space ÷ 3 minutes of frisbee
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Scouting supremo of Tolworth for 60 years 0
- Notable Surbitonians
- 30th August 2019
One of the area’s most respected and inspirational scout leaders, Alan Thomas, has died at the age of 91. Emmanuel church in Grand Avenue was filled with generations of scouts on July 15 for his memorial service. Born David Alan Thomas in Forest Hill, south east London, in 1927, he was three when his parents
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