Surbiton

From flowers to florets… again 0
- News
- 6th November 2020
Surbiton’s hand-tied specialist has again swapped flowers for florets, becoming a pop-up greengrocer during the second lockdown. Simon Smith Flowers, between Wilders deli and the kebab takeaway at the station forecourt in Victoria Road, Surbiton, reinstalled its door counter to serve customers with fresh produce. There’s a colourful fruit ‘n’ veg display on the pavement… together
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Make room for mushrooms!0
- Environment, News
- 2nd November 2020
Does this look like a gathering of Coprinus comatus to you? Or do you know them by any of their other names – shaggy ink cap, lawyer’s wig or shaggy mane? They were spotted by one of our Good Life deliverers in a front garden in Woodstock Lane North, Long Ditton. The fungi, a gilled
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Beware Surbiton’s scary street!0
- News
- 1st November 2020
Wonder how many haunted houses there are in Spooky Street? Perhaps the residents of Cotterill Road – now dubbed the spookiest street in Surbiton – could let us know? Were there any strange and eerie noises emitting from the mix of Victorian, Edwardian and 1930s houses last night for Halloween? And any child-sized apparitions of
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Local creatives showcase their talent at Tolworth’s arts market 0
- Arts, Food, News
- 31st October 2020
Tolworth’s arts, crafts and food market will be in full swing tomorrow (Sunday) from 11am to 3pm. “Tolworth and Kingston as a borough are lucky to have a huge number of brilliant local traders and creatives,” said Charlotte Levy, project co-ordinator for the community-led regeneration project SHEDx which has organised the event. “We’re looking forward
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Halloween fun at The Circulatory 0
- News
- 30th October 2020
Spooky goings on will be happening at The Circulatory near Berrylands railway station tomorrow (Saturday). The waste not, want not, recycling, upcycling and repurposing centre at Chiltern Works off Chiltern Drive, Berrylands, will be decorated in all things eerie for Halloween. Enter a dark corridor and make your way towards the Grotto of Doom encountering
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Megan’s gets set to open 0
- Food, News
- 30th October 2020
Surbiton’s newest restaurant is just weeks from opening, and aims to launch by early December. Megan’s is the replacement for Zizzi in the high street, and is already being described by the chain as ‘Megan’s At The Post Office’, playing up surviving relics of its former incarnation as Surbiton’s main PO, such as the outsize
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