Surbiton

Weekend of Christmas markets with local arts and crafters 0
- Arts, Environment, News
- 11th December 2021
Surbiton’s The Lamb pub and Salon No. 13 will be holding Christmas markets this weekend with arts and crafts made by local creatives – perfect for a spot of Xmas shopping. The pub in Brighton Road will be holding its event – indoors and outdoors under canopies – from noon to 6pm today (Saturday), while
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Surbiton to be made 20mph zone 0
- Environment, News
- 10th December 2021
Surbiton is to become a 20mph zone. Councillors voted unanimously at a Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee meeting this week to introduce the new speed limit across the area – even in main roads like Ewell Road, Upper Brighton Road and Portsmouth Road. The Traffic Management Order will come into effect in mid January, with work on
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Be Santa Claus or one of his elves for charity collections 0
- News
- 7th December 2021
Father Christmas was a big attraction on his Surbiton Rotary Club sleigh as he toured the streets of Berrylands last night collecting donations for local charities. And now is your chance to sit in the hot seat too. You can either don the big guy’s outfit, complete with white beard, and sit in your ‘throne’
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Liverpool poets come to the cornerHOUSE in Surbiton 0
- Arts, News
- 23rd November 2021
People’s Poet Roger McGough, pictured above, is to perform at the cornerHOUSE this Friday, November 26. Dubbed the patron saint of poetry by former poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Liverpool poet McGough, who hosts Poetry Please on Radio 4, will be reading from his latest book, Safety in Numbers, and taking a wry and whimsical
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That sinking feeling…0
- Arts, History
- 19th November 2021
A packed community hall at St Mary’s church, Long Ditton, heard a talk from assistant curate the Rev Alison Baverstock about a passion… the Titanic. The area has a bond with the doomed ship as Austin Partner, one of the 1,502 who perished in the freezing waters of the Atlantic on April 15 1912, lived
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Surbiton church ‘best in the land’0
- Environment, History, News
- 19th November 2021
Congratulations to St Matthew’s, Surbiton, for winning an award which rates it the UK’s best-maintained church. The 1874 landmark in St Matthew’s Avenue has scooped the 2021 Nayler Award for Excellence in Church Maintenance. Team rector the Rev Helen Hancock said she was delighted with the accolade, attributing it to regular volunteer upkeep sessions. The award
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