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Monthly Archives: December 2025
New Year’s Eve Entertainments
Barnes Home Guard Dear Membe A friendly reminder that our New Year’s Eve Party is coming up, and we’d love for you to join us as we count down to the new year together! Doors open at 7:30pm, so arrive … Continue reading
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Wimbledon, Stag and Pensford combined.
A Lords amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill aimed at clearing the way for Wimbledon’s expansion has fallen, leaving the project exposed to renewed legal challenges — including further court cases in 2026 — over public land, statutory trusts … Continue reading
Christmas Lights
Who Wins? Happy Christmas to EastSheenMatters Subscribers.
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Affordable Housing: A Lesson for Richmond?
When it’s developers v people, usually the money wins. See how one community came out on top The Guardian 20 December 2025 “What happens when international capital arrives on your doorstep and threatens to devour your home? The residents of … Continue reading
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Mortlake Brewery: Liddell and Park Cottage
Simon Renton writes with reference to the report at https://childlawobserver10.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4347&action=edit As regards the Mortlake brewery, there were a number of Irish labourers employed there in the 1860s. The following pages (extracts) of the autobiography of Adolphus Liddell, whose grave and … Continue reading
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Barnes Conservation Survey: Frogs, Toads and Newts
Barnes Conservation, a part of Barnes Common Ltd, are undertaking an exciting survey project to map all the garden ponds in the Richmond Borough and to find out where Frogs, Toads and Newts are living and breeding. Barnes Conservation needs your help to identify … Continue reading
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Tchaikovsky at Cripplegate
EastSheenMatters rarely reports from out of parish but the performance on 14 December of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major in the setting of St. Giles without Cripplegate was so exceptional as to require recognition outside the City of London. … Continue reading
