November 2008 Archives

Campaigners who are trying to get a safer crossing and traffic calming outside a Weybridge School stepped up their lobbying on Tuesday November 25 as they put a question about the implementation of 20mph zones to Surrey County Council.

Halliford WI were quick to answer an appeal by a Weybridge soldier who urged residents to send Christmas parcels to his comrades to boost morale.

St John Ambulance cadets from the Weybridge Division scooped awards at an Annual Inspection and Enrolment Evening on Thursday November 20 at St James Parish Hall in Church Street.

The St Georges Hill Lawn Tennis Club was full with song writing legends belting out their hits on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 November. 'The Songwriters and The Kestrals' evening hosted by the Walton and Weybridge Friends of Princess Alice Hospice Committee was a great success and saw hundreds of guests enjoying classic hits. This is a wonderful flagship event in the calendar and would not take place without the dedication of the committee, which includes an instrumental member in Brenda Greenaway, wife of songwriter Roger Greenaway.

A talk on the history of Walton Bridge will be held in January at St James' Church.

Nick Pollard from Sunbury and Shepperton Local History Society will give a talk on January 19 at the next meeting of the Weybridge Society.

Admission is free to members and guests pay £1.

Brooklands College's refectory has been awarded a gold food award by Elmbridge Council, demonstrating 'the highest standards in all areas of food hygiene'.

It comes after a routine food inspection in September and puts Brooklands in the top 3-5% of the 500 large establishments that are inspected each year.

Sameer Monem, 28, of Curzon Road in Weybridge was killed on November 3 after a car in which he was a passenger left the road and hit a tree.

The Renault Clio was being driven by his 23-year-old girlfriend when the accident occurred in Heath Road, Weybridge, at about 9.30pm.

American descendants of a Weybridge family who were in the service of the Duchess of York have flown more than 3,500 miles to visit the 200-year-old graves of their ancestors.

Bob Anstine, 72, and his niece Anne Tempera, 65, made the journey from their home in Baltimore, Maryland, to St James' Church in Weybridge on Thursday to see the final resting places of 23 members of the Keene family

Brooklands College student, Kirstie Kay is the only girl amongst many boys on a Keeps Academy football scholarship at the college in Weybridge.

Kirstie started playing football at the age of nine, after a friend invited her along to football training. Her mum had bought her a kit, which included shin pads - so when the trainer asked who wanted to go in goal, Kirstie offered as she had the right kit and she hasn't looked back since. She prefers being in goal and says that "It's basically my job".