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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
Waitrose Yellow Box Trap
A Penalty Charge Notice issued recently to a friend was a salutory reminder of the risks of taking your car to Waitrose Car Park in East Sheen on a busy day. He had his rear wheels over a small part … Continue reading
Holiday at Home at Christ Church
On Saturday 17th January Christ Church is holding a Holiday at Home Winter Warmer 12.30pm – 4.00pm at the Christ Church Community Hall. There will be a soup and cheese lunch, a quiz, activities, a pantomime sketch, and tea and … Continue reading
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Pensford Field More
EastSheenMatters drew attention to the current situation on the takeover of Pensford Field following the publication of a report from the Pensford Field Environmental Trust (PETS) outlining its plans to wind up the charity. https://childlawobserver10.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4356&action=edit One important point raised was … Continue reading
How are your waterworks?
Local residents will have noted that the Upper Richmond Road sprung a leak last week opposite Robert Dyas. You may have wondered which would arrive first: an icy road or Thames Water to shut the cock off. On Saturday the … Continue reading
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