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Traffic scheme and care home to be discussed at Surbiton meeting 0
- Environment, News
- 20th July 2021
Two controversial schemes will be up for discussion at this Thursday’s (22nd) Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee. Councillors will decide whether to keep, remove or modify the low traffic neighbourhood barrier in King Charles Road, near the junction with Beaconsfield Road by Coffee On The Corner (above), after they have heard the views of members of the
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Plan to demolish Victorian care home and build six-storey block 0
- Environment, News
- 31st May 2021
Developers want to bulldoze a two-storey care home in Adelaide Road, Surbiton, and build a six-storey, 60-bed building in its place. Willow Grange Care Home, which offers respite, nursing and dementia care at its base at 1-3 Adelaide Road near the junction with St Mark’s Hill, wants to replace its existing Victorian building (below) built
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Emotional reunions at Royal Star & Garter care home for veterans 0
- News
- 26th March 2021
Residents at the Royal Star & Garter in Surbiton have held hands with loved ones for the first time in a year, with the beginning of indoor visiting, yesterday (Thursday). It marked their first physical contact with relatives since the Covid-19 lockdown began in March last year. New government guidelines permit a single, designated visitor
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Captain Tom inspires veterans’ book club at care home 0
- Arts, News
- 4th February 2021
The book which Royal Star & Garter residents are reading has taken on extra poignancy following the death of Captain Sir Tom Moore on Tuesday. The Surbiton home for disabled veterans and their partners launched a book club recently for its residents living with dementia – and they chose centenarian and national hero Captain Tom’s
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Veterans enjoy songs, haggis, neeps and tatties on Burns Night 0
- Food, News
- 26th January 2021
Singer and health care assistant Jodie Halls entertained the residents of Surbiton’s Royal Star & Garter Home with songs to celebrate Burns Night yesterday (Monday). The veterans at the home in Upper Brighton Road, also enjoyed a traditional Burns Supper – including haggis, neeps, tatties and a dram or two of whisky to celebrate the
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Veterans mark Armistice Day with services at care home 0
- History, News
- 11th November 2020
Veterans at the Royal Star & Garter Home in Surbiton have marked Armistice Day today (Wednesday) with services on each of its three floors (to allow for social distancing), tea and cake, and nearby Shrewsbury House School laying a wreath outside the Upper Brighton Road building. On Remembrance Sunday (November 8), veterans watched the annual
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