The Good Life Surbiton

Return of the water vole!0
- Environment, News
- 16th November 2020
Berrylands-based Citizen Zoo has raised £18,250 to bring water voles back to the Hogsmill River. The rewilding group’s fundraiser smashed its original £12,000 target. The extra money will now help recruit a dedicated water vole officer to manage the scheme and scale the project beyond the Hogsmill River to the Thames. The next two years will
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Surbiton councillors splash the cash for Christmas lights 0
- News
- 14th November 2020
The whole of Surbiton’s high street will sparkle with Christmas lights this festive period. Last year the lights and decorations only reached part of the way along Victoria Road, but this year councillors on the Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee decided to splash out and approve the most expensive option – £12,523 – at its recent meeting.
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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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Put up a poppy poster in your front window to honour the fallen 0
- News
- 7th November 2020
We will remember them, despite the fact that we can’t get together to honour them. Covid-19 has put the kibosh on Remembrance Sunday gatherings across the country but The Royal British Legion has asked people to still commemorate the contribution of veterans and those who died in the two World Wars and later conflicts by
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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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