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Your Local Councillors

Ewell Court, Auriol and Cuddington DivisionCounty CouncillorEber A [email protected] Woodland Close Ewell KT19 0BQ020 8786 7484 Twitter @EberaKingtonCommittees: People, Performance and Development, Local, Member Conduct Panel.

Ewell Division (inc. Stoneleigh)County CouncillorJohn [email protected] Walsingham GardensStoneleigh KT19 0LS 020 8393 8208Committees: Local, Surrey Pension Fund Committee.

CouncillorJohn [email protected] Walsingham GardensStoneleigh KT19 0LS 020 8393 8208Committees: Environment and Safe Communities(Vice-Chair), Financial Policy Panel.

CouncillorPeter [email protected] Amberley GardensStoneleigh KT19 0NH 07941 231 072Committees: Human Resources Panel (Chair), Community and Wellbeing, Standards.

CouncillorHannah [email protected] Twitter @Tulips7418 Gayfere RoadStoneleigh KT17 2JX 07305 980 411Committees: Community and Wellbeing (Vice Chair), Standards (Vice-Chair), Health Liaison Panel, Strategy and Resources, LGA Safer & Stronger Communities Board (Dep. Lead).

CouncillorChris [email protected] 151 Stoneleigh Park RoadStoneleighKT19 0RH 07585 220 122

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Epsom and Ewell Borough Council

Surrey County Council

Other useful numbersFor useful local information and telephone numbers, please see page 41.

Epsom and Ewell Borough Council is undertaking a survey on how residents wish to receive information from the Council. Responses will help shape the way the Council keeps residents up to date and involved in their community. To access the survey, please visit epsom-ewell.gov.uk/survey before Friday 3 July.

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Inside This IssueYour Local Councillors Page 1

Chairman’s Letter Page 3-4

Hon. Alderman Ruby Smith Page 5

County Notes Pages 7-9

Borough Notes Pages 9-13

Social Scene Page 15

Community Spirit Pages 16-17

Stop the Tower Block Pages 19-21

Epsom Town Centre Pages 22-23

Citizens Advice Page 24

Age Concern Pages 25-26

Behind the Picture Pages 26-30

Road Rage Page 31

Sudoku Puzzle Page 38

Contact Details Page 39

Your Zone Representatives 0

Useful Local Information Page 41

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Chairman’s Letter

Welcome to the Summer 2020 elec-tronic edition of our Resident maga-

zine.Where to begin. To be honest, when

the last magazine was published, I never imagined I would miss the day to day, relentless news about Brexit. Then along came a virus which said to the world “hold my beer” and here we are.

I would like to say how amazed and impressed I have been by the local com-munity in Stoneleigh and Auriol. From the local council setting up programs to reach out and protect the elderly and vulnerable, the local shops and restaurants keeping us going to the groups in various streets set-ting up their own community groups via Facebook or WhatsApp. Back in February, who even knew Zoom was such a thing?

Behind the scenes our Councillors have been doing some amazing things that many of you may not have heard about, but will have had a massively positive impact on many thousands of people and businesses. You can read about many of these here: thebestof.co.uk/local/epsom-and-ewell/community-hub/blog/ (I can’t do that in the printed version of the magazine, so there’s a first!)

During lockdown, I tried visiting one of the larger supermarkets and after tak-ing one look at the queue which snaked around the carpark, past the petrol station and out onto the main road, came straight back home.

It really hammered home to me what is available on the Broadway. It’s very easy to take all of this for granted, but when things start to become more normal, I hope we don’t forget just what has been done locally for us all.

O n t o other mat-t e r s … T h e planning ap-plication for Station Ap-proach still rumbles on. An amendment has been submitted which is surprisingly, higher than the original application. You can view the application here and if you have an constructive com-ments, feel free to add them. You can also read the existing comments to get a feel of local opinion. Contrary to what it says on the website, the closing date for comments is a minimum date and comments will be taken into consideration up to the date of the planning application meeting.

We have taken the decision not to proceed with this year’s TRIFEST event in Auriol park. We did so with the best interests of the Residents in mind. For the same reasons, we will not be carrying out any litter picks until it is safe and reason-able to do so.

Unfortunately, I do have some sad news. Honorary Alderman Ruby Smith passed away in April. Our thoughts are with her friends and family at this sad time. You can read more about Ruby on page 5.

I would like to congratulate Cllr John Beckett for his year as Epsom and Ewell’s Mayor and #1 citizen. He did us all proud with his civic and charitable work. It’s a shame the wind was taken out of his sails by the lockdown at the end of his year, but a great deal of good was done by him and the Lady Mayoress.

In many years to come, I hope many people will look back on the last few

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months and remember it as not only a sombre time where people lost friends and family, but also a time where those with children spent precious time with them, teaching them and watching them grow. A time where we learned to fall in love with home cooking and being creative with whatever was viable in the cupboards. A

time where when we went out for a walk, run or cycle, the air was fresh and clean for the first time in years and the birds seemed to be singing louder than ever.

In these difficult times, please do stay safe and I’ll catch up with you in the next magazine.

Richard Harris

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An elderly regular customer came in to the Vale Road post office and asked

for a high value gift voucher, which raised their suspicion.

Post Office staff asked for the purpose of the voucher and the gentleman was a lit-tle vague and evasive. He said that he had been contacted by phone by an unknown person who had convinced him to purchase the voucher.

Because of the vagueness and eva-siveness of the response the Post Office declined to allow the purchase and warned the customer of possible fraud.

Phil Neale has produced a notice for the post office to display warning custom-ers to be aware of this scam. Please be on your guard if anyone contacts you, or any-one you know, and tries to persuade you to buy a gift voucher.

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Hon Alderman Ruby Smith

Stoneleigh and Auriol Residents’ Asso-ciation is saddened to report the death

of Ruby Elizabeth Smith aged 91.She was born on 14 December 1928

and was first elected to representative Stoneleigh Ward on 20 July 1995 at a by election. Ruby served on Epsom and Ewell Borough Council for fifteen years and ten months, during which time she gave de-voted service to the council, the residents of Stoneleigh Ward and the borough.

Sadly, Ruby suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last few years of her life and was in a care home in Westcott, Dorking up until her death.

Ruby served on a number of borough council committees, including the Eco-nomic Development, Housing and Personal Services, Recreation, Social, Planning and Licensing committees. She was also the chair of the Planning Committee from 2000

to 2003 and the Social Committee from 2003 to 2006, contributing greatly to the wellbeing of the local community.

During her years of service Ruby was also on numerous outside bodies, in par-ticular the Committee of Management of the local Citizens Advice Bureau and the Executive Committee of the Council for Voluntary Services.

Outside her Council duties, Ruby also served the community through her dedication to the Girl Guide movement and became the Epsom Division President.

In recognition for her work to the council and her outside interests in the borough, Ruby was honoured by her peers with the title of Honorary Alderman in April 2012, a title she was extremely proud of.

Ruby’s long and dedicated service to the residents of Epsom and Ewell will be remembered.

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County Notes County Cllr John BeckettCounty Cllr Eber A. Kington

Below is a brief summary of how Surrey County Council has reacted to the Cov-

id-19 emergency and how it has affected some of Surrey County Council services.

Covid-19 Related IssuesThe Surrey Local Resilience Forum

(SLRF) is coordinating the county-wide response to coronavirus and incorporates all partners across Surrey. It’s being led by Surrey County Council, Surrey Police and Surrey Fire and Rescue Service working closely with district and borough councils and all health partners. They are also work-ing alongside many community, voluntary sector and faith groups who are coordinat-ing projects at a local level.

Over 100 members of staff have been deployed to support the SLRF. Many more officers have been redeployed to new roles, for example supporting the Surrey County Council Contact Centre or managing Ad-vice Lines.

Surrey County Council has a role in helping Surrey’s most vulnerable residents. For example they ensure that residents on the Government’s shielded list have received a box of food and household es-sentials from the Government either from the Government direct or from the SLRF Food Hub operating out of the Guildford Spectrum Centre. To date over 1500 boxes have been delivered by SLRF. Surrey County Council through the SLRF sends the con-tact details of shielded residents to borough councils (such as EEBC) whose role it is to contact these individual to ensure all their needs are being met.

Surrey County Council has spent about £900k creating a new hospital using

some of the buildings at Headley Court. They anticipate that the Government will cover those costs. It is to be called Seacole Centre and will open to patients on 18 May. It is designed to treat patients who have recovered from coronavirus but still need hospital care.

Surrey County Council has also opened two additional mortuaries to cope with the increased number of deaths.

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essential roadwork programme following Government guidance which emphasized the need to keep the economy going and ensure our highways and footways are safe. A key element of this work is the relaying of the pavement along the northern High Street Epsom (Wilko side).

However, work is also being under-taken, using safe practices, in the local area. In Ewell Court, the footway in Meadow Walk and (soon) one side of Ewell Court Avenue is being reconstructed.

The enforcement of many yellow lines has been suspended until 22 June. However, parking on double yellow lines or zig zags or on single yellow lines on main roads and in town centres could be dangerous and continue to be enforced as normal.

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and Ewell Borough Council has been managing its resources to support the com-munity during the Covid-19 emergency.

When the Covid 19 emergency was declared in March, Epsom and Ewell un-dertook a strategic shift in the deployment of staff and resources:

• 48 members of staff were shifted to work solely on the emergency re-sponse to Covid 19.

• An Incident Management Team was set up under the Chief Executive.

• A Borough Emergency Control Centre was set up, consisting of three Cells (Welfare, Information and Support, and Environment).

• A Community Hub was created to co-ordinate support for the borough’s most vulnerable residents.

• The Town Hall was closed to the pub-lic.

• Most Town Hall based staff were re-located to work from home.

• Committee Meetings (other than Planning Committee Meetings) were temporarily suspended.The Community Hub has been the

centre for contacting all Epsom and Ewell residents on the Government’s shielded list plus other residents identified by Borough Council, GPs and local charities as being vulnerable. These residents have been contacted and asked if they have or need support with their shopping or for collect-ing prescriptions.

In the week ending 24 April, 970 calls were made to shielded residents and 472 calls made to vulnerable residents.

Most residents who are called do not need support but have really appreciated being called. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council is working alongside Age Concern Epsom and Ewell (ACEE). Residents aged 69 and over are being referred to ACEE where appropriate.

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In the week ending 3 May, 133 follow-up house calls were made to shielded and vulnerable residents

The Meals at Home service has ex-panded from just over 100 meals a week in March, to 1027 meals in the week ending 3rd May.

The work and care shown by borough council officers undertaking the activities above has been both outstanding and in-spiring. Many are working in areas new to them and many are also volunteering for additional tasks outside of their working hours.

Borough Council ServicesThe resources required to manage

the Covid-19 emergency has meant that some Borough Council activities services have ceased, or staffing numbers reduced. Some officers are no longer available face-to-face. However:

• The weekly recycling and refuse col-lection has been maintained through-out.

• The garden waste service was reintro-duced following a short suspension once the Council was sure staffing numbers had not been affected by Covid-19.

• Car parking has for a while been free in most car parks. (Exceptions are where car parking space needs to be available for key council staff, emer-gency services and volunteers).

• In the week ending 3rd May 92 residents were in paid-for homeless accommodation. Numbers have in-creased due, for example, to: encour-

aging rough sleepers into accommo-dation, at risk individuals opting to leave their homes, prisoner releases, sofa surfers being asked to leave their accommodation and people leaving homes of a shielded family member.

• Epsom Cemetery was closed to the general public in response to Government guidelines but is now open as that guidance has now changed. However, weekday open-ing is reserved for funerals to protect the privacy and safety or mourners. Throughout the say-at-home period family members have been able to attend funerals. EEBC has arranged for additional plots to be dug to cope with the sad increase in the number of burials.

• Most of the Borough’s parks and open spaces have remained open for public use. However, in a few cases, and at the request of the Police, parks and/or associated car parks have been closed for a period because users have not been following the social distancing guidelines.

• The Finance, Council Tax and Ben-efits Teams are ensuring that local businesses which are entitled to a business rate ‘holiday’ receive it, and those qualifying for a small business grant of £10k or funding from the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund, receive the funding ASAP. It is crucial that we support our local businesses and economy.There are many of examples of EEBC

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In his role as Chair of the Licensing and Planning Policy Committee, Cllr Reeve takes the view that Epsom and Ewell Bor-ough Council is obliged to support central government’s housing targets and that fail-ing to support higher density development will incur unacceptable financial penalties. SARA strongly opposes all inappropriate development and was disappointed that, while David has met with developers, he has refused to attend meetings with resi-dents to hear their concerns about the pro-posed tower block on Station Approach. Re-grettably, this difference of opinion has led to a certain amount of acrimony between Cllr Reeve and SARA to the point that the relationship between us has broken down.

The General Committee recognises the important work that Cllr Reeve has done supporting vulnerable residents dur-

ing the Coronavirus crisis and thanks him for many years of service to the residents of Stoneleigh Ward as a councillor and to SARA as a former zone rep and Magazine Advertising Manager. We regret that it was not possible to find a way to reconcile our differences and we wish Cllr Reeve all the best as an independent councillor.

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record of additional costs to the Borough Council as well as estimated loss of income. These figures are reported to the Minis-try of Housing, Communities and Local Government on a regular basis. Current

projections indicate a loss to June of over £2 million.

The worst-case scenario could be a £10 million loss at the year end.

The Borough Council will look to see what positives can come out of the emergency, such as new ways of working, greater use of technology/conferencing, closer working with both partners and lo-cal voluntary groups and the re-shaping of old/new services.

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There is a song from Monty Python that is starts “Always look on bright side of

life”, which for the Stoneleigh and Auriol Community is a beacon for anything that is thrown in their way.

Three cheers to you all!With all the strange things that have

been happening in the world, I would nor-mally be inviting you all to the Summer

Trifest. As you will have read in the last magazine, we had just kicked off the pro-cess of selecting a band to play at the event.

Even though we haven’t got any events planned at the moment, I would like to share my thoughts about the great community spirit that we are all witnessing during these difficult times.

Many roads have set up WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages to keep in touch and the feeling of togetherness is amazing. We have had drawings in the windows to cheer us all while we were out for our daily walks.

The next thing on the agenda was clapping for the NHS workers and support

for the local food bank. Then there was a fantastic teddy bear hunt taking place in the windows of houses along the road. We have all been helping each other out with schoolwork, lost cats and maths puzzles on rainy days.

We have had a multi-coloured swap shop of things being cleared out of cup-boards. Residents’ cupboards and even

the darkest sheds and garages have been cleared. All the normal dreaded weekend lists are coming to end. There is even a new craze of getting on a bicycle and walking to the shops instead of taking the car. It seems Mother Nature has come back too: I cannot recall hearing so much birdsong before.

Our efforts to keep people safe in the midst of this crisis is amazing. When this is all over, I am looking forward to having a street party to rival the front garden VE Day celebrations that took place

in some roads on 7 May.My father once wrote in his diary that

he first saw a banana skin in 1952, while ra-tioning was still in place after the war. Maybe someone has already noted in their diary that they saw a supermarket full of tinned of to-matoes, toilet rolls and did someone mention rice? And please don’t get me started on the flour shortage…

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PendragonCommunity SpiritIt’s a simple expression but not so simple

to define. Sociologists studying for PhDs spend hours researching community spirit, looking for answers or at least a ra-tional understanding. Many debates end in ambiguity pulling us back to the table for further discussion because we feel it is socially beneficial. I am well down the railway line of life, yet I am still intrigued by community spirit.

So, what is it? The question rapidly becomes fragmented. Is it class-related? Is it a thing of the past? Is it socio-economi-cally driven? Is it regional? Is it related to religious or philosophical beliefs? Must it be evidence-based? Sociology is not a precis subject consequently that imprecision makes it de-manding.

Let us pluck out these fragments and ex-amine their contribution to the whole. Take the regional element. As a Scot who grew up in the north-east of England and once lived in the West Country before settling in the London area, I have some first-hand expe-rience to substantiate any observations. When asked, are northerners warm and friendly and southerners cold and insular, I hesitate, review my answer then deliver a mealy-mouthed reply which, dare I admit, is imprecise. I can provide examples, but any student will tell you sample selection can be heavily influenced by subconscious bias, mine certainly is.

As this article is intended to en-tertain, we can be cavalier with circum-spection. When I lived in Scotland, our neighbour frequently asked to borrow talcum powder for her son, Malcolm. The co-incidental rhyming of the product and the boy’s name amused me. However, would you knock on a neighbour’s door and expect to borrow talcum powder? A cup of sugar perhaps but talcum powder? This is

working-class Scotland in the Forties and may answer three fragments of the ques-tion, is community spirit related to class, region or an era?

After the war my Dad, with a wife and three children to support, was desperate for work. Delighted to be offered permanent employment but saddened when told it was in England. Dad, a devout Scot, spent too much time abroad during the war. Now, he just wanted to “stay home.” Our accommodation in County Durham was a top-floor flat above the Midland Bank. It


had no bathroom. Washing was hung out on the landing at the top of the communal stairs. It got stolen. When bank staff were informed by the Police about the theft, one member, an elderly woman, offered to periodically check our washing line. This was not part of her job description and she risked meeting a miscreant on the stairs but was this offer driven by her Christian values or an ethical passion?

In those days, a bus was not just public transport, but a vehicle for com-munity spirit. I was now living in a road of a hundred and eighty-two houses. Three families owned cars; the rest travelled by bus. The last bus on Saturday night was pure joy. All the passengers were on first name terms. Having spent the evening in the town’s pubs and working men’s clubs, the atmosphere was buoyant. Well known songs rang out, Oh Oh Antonio, White Cliffs of Dover and, my favourite, When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New. This was gaiety of a high order generated by friendliness and a sense of caring for each other, community spirit at its best. When I got off the bus at the terminus someone would always call out, “Good night son and look after your Mum.” I was deeply touched. I was a teen-ager with a widowed mother. My father died of a heart-attack when I was nine. He had survived the war but found post-war austerity very difficult.

As a young married man, I bought a house in Forest Hill, South London. A bond developed among the neighbours. We be-came good friends, went to parties at each other’s houses and shared our problems. The source of this neighbourliness was children. We were all parents of a similar age, we all had children going to the same school, we all shared similar parenting difficulties. Together, we raised our glasses

on a New Year’s Eve and when a neighbour knocked at the door, depressed by domestic issues, they were welcomed. This is London don’t forget, a capital city of eight million people and in the south, not a close-knit community in the Lake District. This chal-lenges the theory of the north-south divide.

I later moved to Sutton where my neighbour went out of his way not to speak to me. The lack of communication closed the door on dialogue. I never found out what drove him to act this way although it can be assumed it was judgementally based. Why are we so keen to sit in judge-ment on our neighbours? I tried to dismiss this with humour saying that if he ever looked from his bedroom window and saw my house in flames, he wouldn’t call the fire brigade. Later I experienced another example of a neighbour’s insularity. One evening the emergency services arrived in a cacophony of horns and blue flashing lights. We all rushed to our windows, well; not quite all of us. One house remained with curtains drawn and a 40-watt bulb strug-gling to light the hallway. Our neighbour seemed oblivious to the commotion in the street. I imagined the husband sitting in his favourite armchair watching television with a cup of tea to hand and calling to his wife, “Have you hurt yourself dear, there’s an ambulance outside.” He was all heart.

Community spirit is in our hands. Do nothing and it remains stillborn. Take ownership and it will flourish. Having experienced both ends of the spectrum I know which I prefer. So, what can we do? Why not start by saying good morning to the stranger who passes your house every morning on his way to work. You never know, he may smile back and return the greeting. You will have sown the seed of community spirit.

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By now you will hopefully have heard of the SSTBAG (Stop Stoneleigh Tower

Block Action Group) campaign over the last year. Yes, it is nearly a year since residents were alerted to the plans for big block of flats on the corner of Station Approach by an innocent-looking application flyer posted on a lamppost. There was no other pre-development consultation, hearing or announcement made to the residents who stood to be affected by it.

Over the course of the year since the group have deter-minedly tried to meet with Woolbro the de-veloper to discuss alternatives to the proposed seven sto-rey block of 23 flats. D i scussions have been made weekly by phone with the PR company represent-ing Woolbro. Promising noises of good in-tentions were made by them, then changed at the last minute. Frustrated by this, some residents asked for more action by their council and local councillors. An action group (SSTBAG) was formed and open public meetings started. At a stroke it was in the public domain: no longer a best kept secret between planners and developers.

In November 2019, Epsom council Residents’ Association group debated the Local Plan and, in particular, the need for greater housing densities in the borough with the height and scale of buildings they deemed necessary to achieve central gov-ernment’s housing targets. 579 new homes a year were being called for in an already

densely populated borough. In a notice-able reverse, they changed policy in a key vote, resulting in six principles based on the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), the central government guidelines for planning in England, which all planning authorities are duty bound to follow. This should have spelt the end of tower blocks over a certain height.

SSTBAG, after much discussion and consultation, came up with a list of what they, as residents, wanted to see

there: the red lines for the development. Woolbro, we under-stood, were seriously considering them. A compromise seemed possible. Appropriate height and scale and character to suit the surrounding area was included in these and

it appeared that concessions to meet the needs of the residents were being finally addressed.

In January, there was to be a promised meeting of directors and residents, the date came and went without confirmation. Then COVID-19 intervened, and everything was put on hold. Then, out of the blue, we at SSTBAG were told that the company was modifying the original application to make it five going on seven storeys with retail units underneath. That meant that it would be higher than the original June 2019 plan at 23 metres. One reason given was the need to reassure their bank and hedge fund backers that some progress was being made. At this point, the level of trust locally

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in Woolbro’s intentions diminished consid-erably. There have been no meetings since.

So for a month now, SSTBAG have re-energised their year-long campaign, with Channel KT4, Radio Jackie, press, social media and local poster advertising. We have been sounding out residents, involv-ing those in the two surrounding wards and checking any plans to redevelop the rest of the Approach and even the station.

The number of objections on the Ep-som and Ewell Plan-ning Portal has stead-ily increased from 600 last year to over 890 as of today, with more expected. Most are against the develop-ment. Please do have a look at the site, make your views ( for or against) known on the planning portal. This site, if it is approved, could set a precedent for other tower block developments above 22m in the rest of the borough as part of the council’s emerging Local and Master Plans.

Just to reiterate: SSTBAG is not against change or development. Quite the opposite: it welcomes change that evolves out of consultation with those that it effects the most: you, the local residents. What we will not accept is imposed change and development which is out of character with local needs and situation.

One of the really great things (among many) that have emerged for SSTBAG members in this campaign, is a better un-derstanding of their community.

What planning, design codes and housing needs and development mean to them as a part of the Stoneleigh and Auriol community, all concepts that other

professional ‘experts’ usually decide for a community.

Out of that sense of our community and its values has come the formation of SANF (the Stoneleigh and Auriol Neigh-bourhood Forum), formed in November 2019 and soon to be formally recognised by Epsom council as the first neighbour-hood forum in the borough. You can find

out all about it on our website sanf.org.uk or our Facebook page Stoneleigh and Auriol Neighbourhood Plan. You are very welcome to come along to any of the Forum meet-ings, join up and give your views on how you would like the

community to look in future years. All views are welcomed. SANF will be consult-ing widely on all the above issues, before submitting a Neighbourhood Develop-ment Plan over the next year or so. This is a forum run by residents for residents with a listening and consulting approach. It welcomes new committee and working group members, so do get in touch if you are interested. As your Auriol Ward council-lor, I am delighted to be on the committee supporting its aims and actions.

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Those residents who have not been venturing out into Epsom may not be

aware that Surrey Highways (Surrey County Council) via its contractor Kier is continuing the redevelopment of the market place.

Please see the photographs on the opposite page of the northern High Street (Wilko side) where the footway is being re-laid with paving to match the market place itself.

Work has started on re-polishing the base of the Evocation of Speed statue and completing the paving around it. The clock tower, a listed build-ing, is also being renovated and the trees are looking great.

Epsom (and Ewell) has a future, and I am looking forward to the time when all

of us can again enjoy our market town as a great place to shop, work and do business.

County Cllr Eber Kington

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Since 18 March, we’ve suspended our face to face advice service but still

continue to help all those that need infor-mation, support and advice on many areas including benefits, debt, housing, employ-ment and family/relationship matters.

We know that there may be queries around the furlough scheme, current hous-ing protections that are in place and what rights people may have if employers are insisting on a return to work. Additionally, due to the current cli-mate, many people may be suffering hard-ship or unable to pay gas or electricity bills – contact us now to see if you are eligible to access funds we hold for these purposes.

A reminder that our service is free, independent, confi-dential and impartial. That hasn’t changed despite our change to a telephone, webchat and email service. For anyone that needs our help, please contact us via one of the options below:

• Calling our advice line on 0300 330 1164. There are people available to answer calls on weekdays from 10am until 4pm, but you can call at any time and leave a voicemail if we don’t

answer. Leave a clear message with the number you would like us to call you back on, and we’ll call you back as soon as we can.

• Calling or texting us on our dedicated mobile number 07517 889 695. Texts and calls will be charged at your nor-mal rate.

• Messaging us via our website: caee.org.uk/get-ad-v i c e / re q u e st -phone-call/ to request a phone call:

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Age Concern Coronavirus Relief EffortsSince Mothering Sunday, Age Concern

Epsom & Ewell (ACEE), along with the nation, has been adapting the way that we provide services to our elderly clients within the borough.

With face to face services such as the ACEE Foot Clinic, Monthly Sunday Tea meetings and The Men’s Club being put on hold, most of our clients have now been advised by the government to isolate for 12 weeks.

With isolation and loneliness being issues that ACEE has been working tire-lessly to eliminate within the older commu-nity since 1947, the Coronavirus has now heightened these issues and threatened to compromise our charity’s mission to provide a range of services for older people that improves their lives and enables them to be socially active and independent. For a digital copy of our brand new services brochure please click here.

ACEE are now providing new and relevant services to the older community during the Coronavirus Pandemic; we have now extended our Information & Advice helpline from 9am – 4pm Monday – Friday, offering FREE and confidential advice on many issues affecting the older community. At present, on average, the ACEE office is handling 49 Covid19 calls per day, with calls manned by six new office volunteers. Furthermore, a team of 18 volunteers have been working from home, making welfare calls to all 5500 of our ACEE clients, with weekly or fortnightly calls now being made to clients based on individual needs. For full details about our current services please visit ageconcernepsom.org.uk/coronavirus-update/.

With panic buying leaving super-market shelves empty and delivery slots booked up at the start of lockdown, the calls ACEE received via our helpdesk have been made up mainly from concerned clients not being able to get basic food sup-plies or medication. With the help of 154 new volunteers and our team of dedicated staff, ACEE have been able to assist over 450 clients with essential shopping deliveries and over 350 prescription deliveries. Our amazing volunteers also helped to deliver 75 Afternoon Tea Boxes to ACEE clients for the VE Day Stay at Home celebrations. With our VE Day street party, hosted with Go Epsom & What’s on in Epsom cancelled due to the Coronavirus, we did not want our 75 selected guests to miss out. Go Ep-som kindly sponsored all 75 Afternoon Tea boxes, which were created by the wonderful W&W Events Catering and our amazing volunteers hand delivered each of them. If you would like to donate your time as a volunteer with ACEE, please email [email protected].

As mentioned, our face to face be-friending service has been temporarily sus-pended due to social distancing guidelines, which means that all 72 of our amazing volunteer befrienders are now befriending clients by telephone. Due to isolation, we have also seen an increase in the need for telephone befrienders, with 23 new clients registering for this new service.

Due to the Coronavirus, ACEE has had to cancel multiple fundraising events, which would have helped to raise vital funds for our charity. We have been adapt-ing the way in which we are raising funds and are using virtual fundraising platforms.

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During these unprecedented times, ACEE has received great news that we have been chosen to be one of the Mayor of Epsom & Ewell’s Charities of the Year along with two other amazing local com-munity charities. We would like to extend our gratitude to Mayor Humphrey Reynolds for choosing ACEE and look very much for-ward to working with him within the heart of the community. For full details about our new Mayor please click here.

Behind the Picture Trevor Dunford


When thinking about this topic for the Writing Club two subjects sprang to

mind. The first was a self-portrait Self-Por-trait with a Straw Hat painted by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in 1782. It is a stun-ning painting of a young person 26 or 27 years old and all the more impressive when realized it was painted by a woman just seven years before the French Revolution. Women were not readily accepted in the arts at that time but her outstanding talent impressed Marie Antoinette whose patron-age silenced objection. I was tempted to include an image of it, but I did that a few years ago for another topic set by the club and I don’t want to be boringly repetitive.

But then I thought about the paint-ings of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) whose talents arose when Europe was experiencing what Kenneth Clark called ‘the Age of Reason.’ There was consider-able background behind the production of Vermeer’s pictures and ‘Woman Reading a Letter’ is no exception.

Mankind was beginning to wonder and question. Science discovered that the world was not at the centre of the universe and that there were other worlds within it. There were even worlds discovered in a drop of water as revealed with the aid of the newly invented microscope.

Religion had been an unquestioned authority requiring obedience, and the acceptance of God’s will was to be slowly challenged by a revolution of thought. In such an emerging environment the teach-ings of the church could not stand without question.

Vermeer was born to this new world of optimism and exploration and he was fascinated by the natural effect of light which science was beginning to under-stand. He was born and lived in Delft and

he would take up residence in a house in the central square of the town which would be his home for the rest of his life. It exists to this day and is now a museum.

The society in Holland, as it was then emerging, would create a new middle class which had money for luxury items and time for leisure. Free from the daily struggle for survival, the middle class had the blessing of time in which to pursue other interests and one of those was to refine their outlook with art.

A few years before the creation of Vermeer’s painting, Izaak Walton wrote a book about fishing called ‘The Complete Angler.’ On the preface of his book he had announced it as a ‘study to be quiet.’ Nobody who has done a day’s fishing would deny how de-stressing this quiet activity induces and how good it is for maintaining mental health. Time and troubles seem to slip away and we are at peace with the world. This was also the time when two religious move-ments came into being, Quietism and the Quakers and no doubt reflecting a period when many had the stillness of thought, and perhaps for the first time, the ability to participate.

At the time when Vermeer was con-centrating on his paintings Europe was en-tering its modern era. The Bank of England was created at the end of the 17th century, just a few years after Vermeer’s death and Amsterdam in Holland was the financial centre for the whole continent which was then effectively the entire world.

A few years before the creation of ‘Woman Reading a Letter,’ a tulip bulb was brought back to Holland from Turkey. It was not long before blooms of almost infi-nite variety could be grown from this plant and it created the first boom and bust in history. A single bulb might be sold at an

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enormous price and we might wonder how it could be afforded, but then the bubble burst as common sense overrode uncon-trolled greed. How many times has that happened since? Regrettably, such disasters have occurred several times underlining the public hysteria induced by the prospect of easy profit. Tulips are still grown in Hol-land which has established itself as the tulip capital of the world.

Vermeer did not paint the high and mighty or the heroes of military conquest, but focused his work on ordinary people, some of the new middle class, but often servants in his own household and in the performance of simple tasks. Few, if any, of his contemporaries were doing that. He painted most of them in two upper front rooms of his house where the glass windows allowed sunlight to show clearly the range of highlight and shadow on the various surfaces of his composition. He was fascinated by the contrasts that light could depict and was aware that Leonardo da Vinci had believed that the colour of all objects interferes with that of everything else near to them so that an object is seldom seen as it really is. The blue in the woman’s shirt is seen slightly hinted in the plaster wall to her right and the shadows created by the chair against the wall con-tain a hint of blue for the same reason. The colour of the wooden finial at the bottom edge of the map also shows the effect. Re-grettably this simple fact is seldom revealed in photographs of the subject and perhaps it is too subtle for the camera lens to pick up. Throughout his life, Vermeer searched for unquestionable truth; to paint exactly what he saw. Most of his paintings are very simply displayed, but we know he took hours if not days over their arrangement. A single chair might be moved a few inches if

it offended his critical eye and the painting altered accordingly. Seeking perfection, of course, takes time which is why there are only 34 or so paintings which are attributed to him, but those few reveal a quiet simplic-ity with a result which is nothing short of astonishing.

So there is the woman in this quiet painting, dressed in her modest blue shirt and with her pretty, sensible face quietly reading her letter. Daylight is coming from a window to the left, and in front of her, highlighting small imperfections on the plaster wall (almost certainly lime plaster) and ripples in the fabric of the large wall hanging depicting a map which is the only decoration in the room. The fabric for the seating and backs of the two chairs are in one of the artist’s favourite colours, lapis lazuli (ultramarine) the Latin phrase means beyond the sea. The woman’s shirt is in the same colour but brightened by light from the window but darkened in shadow where facing away from it. Lapis lazuli was obtained from Afghanistan and was exor-bitantly expensive and yet Vermeer used it often in his paintings. I can imagine the artist grinding the precious stone into a fine powder and mixing it with oil to make his paint.

The whole composition of Woman Reading a Letter is one which demands quiet reflection just as the woman in the painting is quietly reflecting on the mes-sage revealed by the words in her letter. What do the words written on the paper convey to her, and what is she thinking in that moment frozen in time? We will never know, but it is a mystery within a deeper mystery as we don’t know who she is. There are few paintings which convey, at first glance, a very simple image but which can have such an effect on the viewer. I

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cannot look at them now without being close to tears.

So it should be claimed that what is behind the picture is the knowledge of an emerging world where the economic, religious and social scene was changing which, coupled with Vermeer’s outstand-ing genius, pushed his paintings into the forefront of the art world where 350 years later, they can be truly appreciated for they display calm perfection in a very imperfect and chaotic world. No wonder we are so attracted to them.

But how did Vermeer convey the im-pression of quietness which is a feature of many of his paintings? All paintings are by their very nature inert and still so how did he do it in two dimensions in paint. There is no furious action here, no high drama, just a woman standing alone and reading a letter in the stillness of a silent room. The quietness of his paintings, produced in his peaceful rooms in Delft, practically screams at us. I have no idea how such subtle deli-cacy was done, but then my name is not Johannes Vermeer.

Vermeer did little work beyond his beloved Delft and he never travelled outside of Holland with the result that he was little known in his lifetime. He died in poverty and his wife had to sell everything she could to pay off his debts and his work hardly fea-tured at all for two hundred years. But then the Victorian’s, perhaps possessed with more education, time for thought and lei-sure, began to notice them and appreciate their simple beauty and enigmatic message. Compared to what they were generally ac-customed they must have been intoxicating in their simple perfection.

Now Vermeer’s paintings rarely come to the sale room but when they do, they sell for millions of pounds as a result of frenzied

bidding which Vermeer, in the stillness of his silent rooms, would have abhorred. But their true meaning is of far greater value than the price. All painted art, deserving to be acclaimed, is designed to be seen and ad-mired and to secrete it away in some vault as an investment to accrue wealth is noth-ing short of scandalous; it is not a fate that Vermeer’s work deserves. When sold, the assembled bidders burst into spontaneous applause, but they are not applauding the painting or the artist, they are applauding the money which I think is very sad so in my opinion, even after the passing of three and a half centuries and considering all our advantages, they are still missing the point.


Road RageBack many, many years ago this country

was invaded by the Roman Empire. They brought many things to this isle and one of them was roads. This network can be still seen to this day from a cursory glance at modern maps. The important 90km Stane Street linking Chichester with London passed through Ewell and meant that our local area was part of this great network. A straight line align-ment from London Bridge to Chichester would have required steep crossings of the North Downs, Green-sand Ridge and South Downs and so the road was designed to exploit a natural gap in the North Downs cut by the River Mole and to pass to the east of the high ground of Leith Hill before fol-lowing flatter land in the River Arun valley to Pulborough. The direct survey line was followed only for the northernmost 12.5 km from London to Ewell. At no point does the road lie more than six miles from the direct line from London Bridge to Chichester.

Did you know the Romans built a vast network throughout Europe from Portugal to Constantinople, called the Queen of Roads? The construction consists of gravel surfaced with lime. The closer you entered a town, the more prestigious they would be dressed, with stone block, volcanic tuff, cobbles or paving stones.

The reason for this brief history lesson

is to question why, in the 21st Century, we have some of the most dangerous roads in the world. Walking to the station in the early morning invites serious injury form pavements or uneven roads. Just on the Auriol Side we have 1,545 houses. Even al-lowing for two people per household, that means that 3,190 people use this area of pavements and roads. We have two county

councillors working tirelessly to help to get some of these roads and pavements fixed. Well folks, it’s time we start to raise the game. We pay into a vast system every month. Are we getting value for our money? In one word: ‘NO’. I would like to start a campaign to get our roads and pave-ments safe for all of us. We have the lights

switched off at night resulting in our roads being even worse. Even in early evening, if you go down a road with which you are not familiar, you have a nightmare as well. As a community we provide probably most of the aggregate that goes into the road mak-ing in the whole country.

I would like to start a petition on the main roads that lead to the two schools on Auriol Side which are Thorndon Gardens and Newbury Gardens. These are the most trodden and used in one way or another by most people on the Auriol Side. I’m sure there are equally deserving roads on the Stoneleigh side of the railway.

Lynn Norton

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RSBRSB is the short meaning of Royal Socie-

ty of Boozers and has been in existence since the middle of the 18th century. Those who are considered suitably qualified are elected to the Society and it is not possible to simply apply as the Society has a very high standard of Boozer. Often identified by a purple nose and slurred speech, mem-bers avoid embarrassing public displays preferring to remain in pubs and similar hostelries out of the disrespectful glare of the sober citizen. In fact, so anxious are they to conceal their identity there might be a Boozer standing or sitting next to you right now. Laying on the floor or out in the street in a booze fuelled coma is a dead giveaway and is usually avoided by the members who have high standards to preserve. Many members have attained that aloofness that enables them to look down on non- drinking mortals with indifference and quietly confident in their effortless and unquenchable glass grasping and deep gulping superiority.

It was to this eminent Society that I was elected a member some years ago, but I know not how that came about because membership is by secret ballot. I received a most impressive but slightly Guinness stained letter announcing my member-ship to the RSB with two thousand Nectar points. I had it framed, and it hangs on the wall of my lounge in London Pride of place. Despite membership, my home has never contained any of the liquid which a member would ever find worthy of a visit. Although it is a Royal Society it is not ac-tually necessary to be Royal, in fact I don’t think any Royal person has ever been seen in the company of a member or at least it

has never been confessed. We are nothing if not discreet.

Seven years ago, I was honoured with an award for long service to the beer and pork scratchings industry. I was indeed rather chuffed with this high honour as it entitles me to several crates of beer and 200 bags of scratchings and plain crisps every year which are delivered in Mid-December. Regrettably, I have to salt my own crisps which I think a gross oversight of the So-ciety. I thought to complain but believe it to be throwing a soft drink in the face of the Society and I cannot imagine a greater insult. Strange as it is I have no idea why I was promoted in this way as I didn’t drink then and the only pint to which I was accus-tomed was milk which, if known to other members, would result in my immediate disqualification. But I was also presented with a smart and crisply pressed drinking jacket with a silk lining which gave the ap-pearance of the illuminated display behind a pub bar optics, and all. Sunglasses have to be worn to look at it.

A short while ago I was invited to join a competition for members to come up with a suitable slogan for the Society since mem-bership was seen to be declining in favour of the more popular and less up-market Snorters and Snifters Association (SSA). The Society wanted something catchy and there were quite a few suggestions, but I am proud to announce that my slogan Vita en Veritas et Vino (life in truth and wine) was selected as the winner at a meeting held in the public bar of the ‘Down and Out’ in the village of Stumble Downing. It seemed to go down like a good Grand vin de Bordeaux. Judging by some of the entries I think many members had more than enough of that, and ‘Bottoms Up’ and ‘Get it Down Ya’ were particularly unsuitable and perhaps illus-


trated that some of our membership should have joined the SSA already. I did think of offering ‘always go to the loo before it’s your round,’ but I thought someone might drop a glass and spill their beer on that one, and I prefer to keep that dodge to myself.

But I struggle on with the responsi-bility as I believe I am the only member to be thus honoured, but that certainly explains my reception at the AGM held in the ‘Duck and Bat’ public house in Honking on Sea, Essex. I was treated to a hero’s back slapping by other members who could be clearly identified by the usual facial features and seldom have I seen so many purple noses in the same place. Some have even been seen propping up bus stops on their way home while singing, ‘little old wine drinking me’. I don’t suppose that any one of them has been awake at first light but more a case of ‘kneel at loo gagging while grasp-ing the bowl’ than witnessing the morning glory. The only thing glorious to an associ-ate member of the Royal Society of Boozers is a stiff gin before breakfast. I saw a man once, obviously a member by his bright nose, rusty fly zip and soggy shoes who was asleep with an empty pint glass in front of him. He was there again the next day and so was the empty glass, but the sleep was of a more permanent nature. He had walked into the public house but left feet first.to be unceremoniously deposited into the back of a van. It took two days to remove the empty bottle from his grasp. I shudder to think of such an ignominious end. Better go down with glass in hand and with the words ‘what’s yours’ on your lips. His funeral was a strange affair, and we could not escape notice as instead of flowers there were empty bottles and crisp packets stacked around him as members thought him to be more at home in familiar surroundings.

Some of our members are perfectionists in that respect but on seeing so many empty bottles most members were visibly deeply saddened. The notes of condolence had SIP written on them instead of the more usual RIP, the Society members thinking it more appropriate to express Swig in Peace. The guest of honour had his medals on display including the acclaimed Gulper of the Year with oakleaf clasp and slightly less pres-tigious Cheap Self Service Motorway Cafe medallion with Bar which he was awarded for filling up on Young’s Special faster than members half his age whilst driving up the M1 to visit a beer canning factory before lunch and in hope of obtaining free sam-ples. Experience gives members consider-able advantages, so it must be little wonder that he won several prizes. But he was not an easy Boozer to get on with and his girth was far more outstanding than his mirth although he was seldom heard to speak more than slurred rubbish. I think he be-lieved that the central theme of Buddhism was every man for himself and that moth-balls were actually part of the anatomy of a moth and that bats, particularly Chinese bats, would make some rather tasty soup. Of course, he had not drunk the soup but I can guarantee that he had drunk just about everything else instead. His insistence that middle age spread was some kind of relish and that bedside manner was a stately home was never understood. But perhaps my life has seemed rather flat, and I must confess some heady but bitter experiences somewhat staggering. I’m off now to the famous ‘Brahms and Liszt’ but I won’t be ordering a pint of Corona beer, there is just something about the name that puts me off.

Roger S Blake (RSB)Associate and Honorary member of

the Royal Society of Boozers

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This story relates to the early 70’s when I was working for architects in an office

in Westminster and within a few hundred yards of Buckingham Palace. I would jour-ney there by train to Victoria Station and walk across Stag Place, originally the site of a brewery, and then into the rather grand house which was used as the office. This was the time of a coal strike resulting in little fuel being available at power stations to generate electricity. The government had to reduce demand by introducing a three day week and turning power off. In late afternoons, I would work at my drawing board, as then was, to the light of a single candle. It was an unwelcome but novel experience.

B u t t h e e x p e r i e n c e brought home the convenience of electrical power because my world had become rather Dick-ensian. The teenage daughter of a, well known, politician usually slept in the upper floor of a room opposite and, after arising about midday, would parade about in various stages of undress for the entertain-ment of my younger colleagues. There did not seem any point to that and she might have been unaware of the hormone led audience who were all in their late teens ogling from the windows. Fortunately, I was older and more concentrated on my work with little interest in the display, thank goodness.

The lack of electricity meant that train services were seriously disrupted and often with reduced carriages. Internal lighting was switched off to save electricity and

those old slam door trains had compart-ments with seating across the carriage facing each other. Walk-through compart-ments were slowly being introduced but dear old British Rail could be relied upon to continue service with the old stock to inconvenience overpaying passengers.

One evening I had to work very late and, checking my watch by the light of a candle, I realised that I had to dash for the last train home. I think some single men slept on the floor at the office. Good luck to them for that, but judging their condition

the day after it might have been better if they’d slept under a bridge or on a bench at the Embankment.

But I made my way back across Stag Place to Victoria Station to be confronted by an enormous crowd of patient travellers thronging the concourse in near silence. There were no trains waiting at the numer-ous platforms and no indication that one would arrive at all. There must have been thousands of people waiting in miserable silence for a train to arrive to take them home. At last, the lights of a train were seen

The Last Train Home Trevor Dunford


entering the station and with the public address system announcing this the last train that night the crowd surged towards and swept aside the barrier to the plat-form. The ticket collector had no chance as people fought to get on that train before anyone had got off and before it had even stopped at the buffers. I was carried along by the crowd and deciding not to risk my recently married life, I gave up and watched the chaos in horror. Eventually several more station staff and two policemen manage to shut the gate to the platform which stopped the human flow but not the screams and colourful language. The guard was about to blow his whistle to get the train started but it was snatched from his lips by an angry young man and who had waited, probably for hours for a British Rail rescue; fat chance of that. I walked down the platform to the front of the train where the driver winked at me. At least he’s got a ride I thought. I had visions of those trains in India with people hanging off outside or standing on the roof. Then the train started to move slowly from the station. The darkened carriages went by, but then someone aboard recognised me and tried to get the moving door open. I set off quickly, trying to keep pace, but the carriages were passing at an alarming rate. Then, as the last carriage was passing, and while I was starting to decelerate at the end of the platform, a grinning Australian opened his door, grabbed me by the col-lar and pulled me aboard. ‘Blimey mate, you nearly didn’t make it,’ he declared in a friendly Australian accent. I stood panting, unable to speak for a moment then asked ‘where are we going.’ He said he thought it Epsom Downs which was fortunate because that’s just where I needed to get. The compartment was crammed and every time someone needed to get out, it had to

empty of the trapped sardines to allow the passenger to escape the crush. It was a bit of a fight to get aboard again as some new passengers wanted to squeeze into our number. The Australian wished me a cheery ‘farewell old sport, good luck’ as he was getting off at Sutton. I suppose someone has to live there.

Eventually I was sitting alone in the dark except for an elderly gentleman in the opposite corner who seemed asleep; I hoped not permanently. I wondered if he’d missed his stop but as we approached Banstead Station the train came to a shud-dering, unexpected halt. The sudden stop woke my fellow traveller who picked up his bowler hat, umbrella and brief case and stumbled to the door in the dark, opened it and stepped out into the black night fall-ing onto the track. A few seconds later the umbrella, bowler hat and brief case were thrown in, not necessarily in that order, fol-lowed by a now muttering old chap. He got his things together, dusted off his clothing and thinking we must have arrived at his station walked to my side of the compart-ment and, before I could stop him, fell out that side too. Before he could recover from this second calamity the train moved off leaving him with a lonely walk in the dark. I thought of alerting the guard but perhaps a walk along the track would have been safer, after all what could the guard do? Finally, and at last, I reached my terminus and walked through the deserted station to the car park where, perhaps unsurprisingly, no car was waiting so I walked the mile to my home with an unbelievable story to tell which is still not believed to this day. This all happened nearly fifty years ago but I remember it as if just yesterday. I have not forgotten that last train home which at my age has a totally different meaning.

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PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE ASSOCIATION Sir Arthur Glyn, Bt., G.R. Drysdale, T.W. Claydon, Alderman T.W. Lewis, Alderman C.R. Bunyan, Alderman G.C.A.

Mann, Alderman W.J. Clark, Cllr J.P. Lobb, T.T. Brown, Cllr H.W. Howard, C.H. Leech, H.G. Short, G.F. Hogg, Cllr J. Waller, Mrs. J.I. Clark, L.C. Colton, Cllr G.H.

Excell, A.F. Rogers, Cllr L.A. Smith, M.B.E., Cllr E.J. Watts, Cllr L.F. Woolcott, R.E.G. Brown, M.B.E., W.J. Janowsky, Mrs. V.M. Wright, E.E. Bastie, Dr. D.E. Jones,

B.P.E. Portugal, P.H. Denney, A.H. Travis, O.B.E., J.H. Shaw, Mrs. F.L. Utton, L. Vickers, Cllr L.F.C. Miller, P.A. Pike, Cllr Miss N.G. Fryer, Cllr Mrs. B.V. Robinson,

D.R. Hughes, L.J. Baxby, Mrs. D. Hodgson, Mrs. S. Hughes, R.N.M. Haile, Mrs. M.B. Freeman, Hon. Alderman R.E. Smith, Hon. Alderman Mrs. P.M. Ballard, Cllr C.

Frazer, A.O. Bowdery, Mrs. A. Simms, J.H.E. Saunders, N. Quinton, Hon. Alderman M.J.C. Staples JP., J.R. Pederick, H.J. Whing, Mrs. G. Alford, Cllr D. Wood, Mrs.

B. Shute, R. Rothwell, K.J. Shute, Cllr R. Leach, M. Sampson, Cllr G. Dudley, Cllr A. Winkworth, Cllr C. Long, W.P. Slaughter, T.D. Rogers, Cllr S. Sanger, Mrs. N.I.

Rogers, County Cllr J. Beckett, Cllr M. Teasdale, L. Norton, D. Turner, H. Turner, Cllr P. Webb, Cllr H. Dalton.

President:Lisa Harris

Deputy President:Jean Teasdale

Vice Presidents:John Saunders, Anneke Simms, Tim Rogers

Chairman:Richard Harris, 8 Rutherwyke Close (8224 6119)

[email protected] Chairman:

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VacantStoneleigh Ward:

David and Hilary Turner, 117 Bradstock Road (8393 9215)

Joint Journal Distributors:Auriol Ward:

VacantStoneleigh Ward:

Greeta Dunn, 2 Calverley Road (8786 9363)

Independent Examiner:Mr. D. Timothy, 5 Rosedale Road

SOCIAL COMMITTEE:Chairman: Lynn Norton

Secretary: Vacant

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Lisa Harris, Richard Harris, Anton Babey,Hilary Turner and Jonathan Power

Except where noted, all material, photographs and other forms of imagery appearing in this magazine are strictly copyright and may not be copied, reproduced, electronically

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HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP John Saunders (2006), Hon. Alderman Mrs Pam Ballard (2009), Hon. Alderman Ruby Smith (2015), Cyril Frazer (2016), Anneke Simms (2017).

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AURIOL WARD24 Newbury Gardens, 1 to 83 & 2 to 64 Mr. M. Barrett, 18 Newbury Gardens.25 Newbury Gardens, 66 to 92 & 85 to 115 & Firtree Close Mr. M. Pavitt, 17 Newbury Gardens.25a Newbury Gardens, 94 to 114 & 117 to 175 Ms. H. Minchin, 155 Newbury Gardens.26 Westways 31 to 51 & 38 to 60 & The Byway Mrs. K. Agrali, 13 Cotherstone, Ewell.26a Stoneleigh Park Road, 1 to 45 & 10 to 52 Ms. A. Heaton, 21 Stoneleigh Park Road.27 Stoneleigh Park Road, 47 and 71 & 54 to 90 and

Station Approach, 1 to 7 Ms. S. Rowe, 67 Stoneleigh Park Road.27a Stoneleigh Park Road, 73 to 117 & 98 to 158 Mr. A. Eversfield & Ms. V. McKee, 44 Stoneleigh Park Road.28 Stoneleigh Park Road, 119 to 163 &160 to 216 Mr. A. Eversfield & Ms. V. McKee, 44 Stoneleigh Park Road.28a Stoneleigh Crescent Mr. A. Adley, 51 Westways.29 Walsingham Gardens, 2 to 46 & 1 to 45 Mr. K. Rodger, 4 Walsingham Gardens.29a Walsingham Gardens, 48 to 92 & 47 to 91 Richard and Kat Lake, 22 Walsingham Gardens.30 Walsingham Gardens, 93 to 121 & 94 to 134 Ms. L. Norton, 144 Seaforth Gardens.30a Walsingham Gardens, 123 to 155 & 136 to 178 Mrs. K. Agrali, 13 Cotherstone, Ewell.31 Firswood Avenue, 1 to 55 & 2 to 36 Vacant31a Firswood Avenue, 57 to 113 & 38 to 70 Vacant32 Thorndon Gardens, 71 to 161 & 70 to 80 & Cudas

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Zone RepresentativesSTONELEIGH WARD1 London Road, 65 to 205

Ms. A. Scollan, 265 London Road.1a London Road, 207 to 297

Ms. H. Porter, 267 London Road.2 London Road, 299 to 379

Ms. H. Porter, 267 London Road.2a Bluegates

Mrs. K. Agrali, 13 Cotherstone, Ewell.3 Sparrow Farm Road, 74 to 86

Mrs. H. Turner, 117 Bradstock Road4 Ewell By-Pass, 1 to 75

Vacant4a Ewell By-Pass, 77 to 153 Vacant5 Park Avenue West

Mrs. J. Teasdale, 17 Clandon Close.5a Beaufort Way

Mrs. K. Agrali, 13 Cotherstone, Ewell.6 Park Avenue East, 78 to 100, 83 to 105 & Parry Close

Mrs. S. Marchant, 3 Cumnor Gardens.6a Park Avenue East, 48 to 76, 51 to 81 & Cumnor

GardensMrs. K. Brown, 40 Rutherwyke Close.

7 Elmwood DriveMrs. V. Jones, 87 London Road.

7a Elmwood CloseMrs. D. Mason, 30 Elmwood Close.

8 Ewell Park Way, 29 to 67 & 42 to 90Ms. K. Stovell, Flat 1, Cedar Court.

8a Ewell Park Way, 1 to 27 & 2 to 40 - & Ewell Park GardensMs. K. Stovell, Flat 1, Cedar Court.

9 Calverley RoadMrs. G. Dunn, 2 Calverley Road.

10 The GladeMrs. H. Turner, 117 Bradstock Road.

11 Rutherwyke CloseMrs. L. Harris, 8 Rutherwyke Close.

11a Glenwood Road & Dell RoadMr. R. Harris, 8 Rutherwyke Close.

12 The Broadway (North Side) Vacant12a The Broadway (South Side)

Vacant13 Briarwood Road, 1 to 53 & 2 to 54

K. Stansbridge, 13 Briarwood Road.14 Briarwood Road, 55 to 107 & 56 to 106

Cllr. H. Dalton, 18 Gayfere Road.15 Chadacre Road, 1 to 73 & 2 to 82 Mr. C. Mothershaw, 99 Chadacre Road.16 Chadacre Road, 121 to 153 & 128 to 180 Mr D. Wiltshire, 168 Chadacre Road.16a Chadacre Road, 75 to 117 & 84 to 126 Vacant17 Waverley Road, 1 to 73 & 2 to 64

Mr. D. Turner 117 Bradstock Road.18 Waverley Road, 75 to 157 & 66 to 114

Mr. & Mrs. M. Child, 72 Waverley Road.19 Bradstock Road, 1 to 59 & 2 to 64

Mr. R. Harris, 8 Rutherwyke Close.19a Bradstock Road, 61 to 121 & 66 to 132

Mrs. J. Forder, 48 Bradstock Road.20 Woodstone Avenue, 1 to 43 & 2 to 48

Mr. D. Ash, 70 Woodstone Avenue.20a Woodstone Avenue, 45 to 85 & 50 to 126

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Mrs. W. Thorogood, 40 Gayfere Road.21a Gayfere Road, 45 to 83 & 46 to 80

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Ms. L. Scrivens, 17 Rosedale Road.22a Rosedale Road, 45 to 93, 38 to 76

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Mr. M. Teasdale, 17 Clandon Close.23a Richlands Avenue, 2 to 44

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ALLOY WHEELS SUPPLIED - OZ & TSW � WHILE U WAIT SERVICE �

020 8393 2338169 CHESSINGTON ROAD, WEST EWELL, SURREY

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TYRE SPECIALISTS

SPECIALISTS IN: CARPETS – AMTICO - KARNDEAN – LVT - VINYLS – LAMINATE FLOORING – RUGS – ENTRANCE MATTING

A FAMILY BUSINESS GROWING SINCE 1960

A family business growing since 1960, Graham Lee Carpets was established 60 years ago in Mitcham. A 3rd

generation family business that now has three showrooms in Cheam Village, Worcester Park & Ewell.

SEE IN STORE FOR ANNIVERSARY PROMOTIONS

CHEAM 0208 642 9796 – WP 0208 337 1778 – EWELL 0208 394 1110

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