Saturday, 4th October, 6.00pm to 7.00pm at All Saints.
Pianist Vedran Janjanin returns with co-founders of The Knight Trio playing in aid of Medical Life Lines Ukraine / ASFT.
More information and tickets for £10 (students and children free) from – ruthmannuk@yahoo.co.uk
An Ode to Heathrow by Brian Coope our local singer and founder of Stiff Joints
Starting with the sound of distant thunder
Rising to a climax overhead
A bleary-eyed four thirty in the morning
Hours before the birds are out of bed
Soon they all just become a number
As they form the great queue in the sky
Hear the rumble and roar down Decibel Drive
And the second hand reads eighty five again
Keep the windows closed on a summer’s day
If you want to hear the music play my friend
If you want to cause the maximum disruption
To the greatest number of people down below
Find a lousy place to build an airport
It’s already here — the place is called Heathrow
Still they fly in the face of reason
And repeat all the wrongs of long ago
Add a runway here and a terminal there
Increase the noise ‘cos they don’t care Oh no
For airport chiefs their ground to give
We gonna have to make them live in Hounslow
A request is being made for the collection of materials to be sent to Ukraine on the next Medical Life Lines Ukraine convoy, which is leaving early on Sunday 7th September 2025.
Urgently needed: Bed Linen – to turn into camouflage nets. (sheets/duvet covers).
Goods can be put on a table at the back of All Saints Church in SW14 – at the latest by 1 September. Queries to Alastair Grant ag@grantcomms.co.uk or 07946 701 057 or respond on EastSheenMatters.
Come with your knowledge and contribute to the discussion.
Inspection of Richmond upon Thames local authority children’s services
Inspection dates: 30 June to 4 July 2025
Judgement Grade
The impact of leaders on social work
practice with children and families Outstanding
The experiences and progress of
children who need help and protection Good
The experiences and progress of
children in care Outstanding
The experiences and progress of
children care leaver Outstanding
Overall effectiveness Outstanding
The Report states:
This could affect the 33.
Services in west, northwest and southwest London will be affected on these dates:
Meeting of the
EAST SHEEN POLICE LIAISON GROUP
to be held at East Sheen Baptist Church, Temple Sheen
on Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 7.00 p.m.
Agenda
Addington, Stanley, Grey and Palmerston all had local associations.
The Sidmouth Tomb lies in the graveyard of St. Mary the Virgin in Mortlake. The inscriptions on his Tomb are indecipherable. But fortunately the plaque shown below in the middle of the graveyard provides us with the essential details.
Henry Addington, the 1st Viscount Sidmouth, was born in 1757. The plaque says that his Premiership from 1801 to 1804 was undistinguished. That perhaps reflects a little unfairly on his political career given he was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1789 to 1801.
He lived in White Lodge in Richmond Park while he was Prime Minister and died there in 1844. But as Deputy Ranger he is said to have contributed much to the work of the Park. And of course we recognise the name in Sidmouth Wood, through which incidentally we can see St. Paul’s Cathedral.
This part of the plaque shows two other well known local names. The Gilpin family was renowned for three generations and memorialised in Gilpin Avenue. Temple is a name with numerous local connections.
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (1799–1869), the 14th Earl of Derby and Prime Minister three times between 1852 and 1866. He was also known as Lord Stanley. The family is of course memorialised in Derby Road and Stanley Road.
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), was Prime Minister from 1831 to 1834. He lived at Sheen House while Prime Minister.
And the most celebrated
Continue readingRichmond Council responsible so we get a warning!
Paynesfield Avenue, East Sheen will be closed junction with Upper Richmond Road West to outside 36 for carriageway resurfacing works on 26/08/2025. Contact: FM Conways 01732 600 771.
Christchurch Road, East Sheen multi-way temporary traffic signals (whole road) for highway improvement works. Estimated completion date 28/08/2025. Contact: FM Conways 01732 600 771.
Christchurch Road, East Sheen will be closed outside 77 to outside 69 for highway improvement works on 29/08/2025. Contact: FM Conways 01732 600 771.
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