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Est 2016 London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Edition 240 Contents TickerTape TwickerSeal C0VID-19 Ascent and descent Marble Hill Marvels Twickenham Riverside E-scooter Rental Trial Begins Letters Tribune Snippets A Week In Church Street WIZ Tales - Antigua and Barbuda Twickers Foodie Review The Many Shades Of Green The First Flying Bomb Film Screenings Contributors TwickerSeal Simon Fowler Marble Hill House Royal Parks Strawberry Hill House Alison Jee Mark Aspen Doug Goodman World InfoZone Shona Lyons Bruce Lyons St Mary’s University Richmond Film Society RFU NAO LBRuT Editors Berkley Driscoll Teresa Read 11th June 2021 Marble Hill House Gardens Photo by Berkley Driscoll TickerTape - News in Brief Richmond Voluntary Fund smashes £100k for local youth mental health charities The Richmond upon Thames Voluntary Fund, which raises money for four local youth mental health charities, has so far raised over £100k and it is not too late to donate! The 2021 beneficiaries are Twickenham based charity Off The Record, Richmond Borough Mind, Dose of Nature and Marble Hill Playcentres. Since the launch of this year’s appeal, thanks to the generosity of local people, over £100k has so far been raised (including Gift Aid), with donations still coming in. Find more info and details of the chosen charities HERE Have your say: Hospital Bridge Road/Turing House School road safety Residents and businesses local to Hospital Bridge Road in the Whitton/Heathfield area are invited to join local Councillors and Richmond Council officers and have their say about traffic and road safety in the area. The meeting will provide an update on the works to be carried out as part of the planning agreement for Turing House School (the S278 works) and discuss plans for improving the junction of Hospital Bridge Road and Nelson Road, with an aim of improving provision for pedestrians. The meeting will also discuss the findings of the corridor study that has been carried out for Hospital Bridge Road with an aim of finding ways to improve pedestrian provision, improve safety and reduce vehicle speeds. Tue, 29 June 2021, 18:00 – 19:30 BST. Register now HERE Orleans House Gallery seeking new facilitators We are inviting applications from experienced and engaging artists for three new activity strands as part of our Children and Families and Schools programmes. Applications can apply for more than one opportunity if you feel your skills and experience fit. The roles are all paid, freelance roles and the team are keen to work with artists from a variety of backgrounds with different skills, stories, and experiences. Visit the Orleans House Gallery website to find out more and apply. Visit the News page for more stories 020 8894 1799 skyelectrical [email protected] Replacing your halogen recessed lights with LEDs will: SAVE ENERGY SAVE YOU MONEY PROVIDE BETTER LIGHTING So… CALL US TODAY FOR A FREE HOME ASSESSMENT AND QUOTE For a timed appointment please call Sky Electrical on 020 8894 1799 22 Fifth Cross Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW2 5LF www.skyelectrical.co.uk www.TwickenhamTribune.com 11h June 2021 - Page 2 www.RichmondTribune.com TwickerSeal hears that the much vaunted, but ignored, Twickenham Riverside Stakeholder Reference Group is finally going to meet again next Wednesday. What exciting new developments and improvements is the council going to announce? Have they had a rethink about creating a lorry highway along the riverside, and are they finally going to provide the vehicle-free riverside they promised? Have they solved the delivery and servicing concerns of Eel Pie Island? Have they solved the King Street/Water Lane/Wharf Lane traffic flow mess? Have they given us a town square and are we actually going to have boathouses? And will the Diamond Jubilee Gardens be a real public garden? There is so much as yet unresolved TwickerSeal can’t imagine how hard the council and its architects have been working to fix these numerous loose ends! Watch this space … www.TwickenhamTribune.com 11h June 2021 - Page 3 www.RichmondTribune.com COVID-19 Teresa Read Public Health England: “… data indicates that over 90% of new COVID-19 cases in the UK are now the Delta variant, which continues to show a significantly higher rate of growth compared to the Alpha variant.” “New research from Public Health England suggests that the Delta variant is associated with an approximately 60% increased risk of household transmission compared to the Alpha variant.” “If you are eligible, we urge you to come forward and be vaccinated. Remember that two doses provide significantly more protection than a single dose. However, while vaccination reduces the risk of severe disease, it does not eliminate it. With data showing that Delta is significantly more transmissible than Alpha, it is just as important as ever to follow public health advice, which has not changed. Get vaccinated, work from home where you can and remember ‘hands, face, space, fresh air’ at all times. These measures work, and they save lives.” www.TwickenhamTribune.com 11h June 2021 - Page 4 www.RichmondTribune.com Total cases to 11 June 2021 11,153 Richmond upon Thames 12,747 Kingston upon Thames 25,722 Hounslow Countries with High Numbers of Deaths Recorded by the World Health Organization Deaths Worldwide 3,758,560 USA 592,932 Indonesia 52,182 Brazil 476,792 Ukraine 51,507 India 359,676 Turkey 48,428 Mexico 229,100 Romania 31,383 Peru 187,157 Czechia 30,211 The United Kingdom 127,860 Chile 30,141 Italy 126,767 Hungary 29,805 Russian Federation 125,278 Canada 25,791 France 109,336 Belgium 25,061 Colombia 92,923 Philippines 22,190 Germany 89,585 Pakistan 21,453 Argentina 82,667 Ecuador 20,903 Iran 81,519 Bulgaria 17,872 Spain 80,332 Netherlands 17,700 Poland 74,447 Portugal 17,037 South Africa 57,310 Iraq 16,614 www.TwickenhamTribune.com 11h June 2021 - Page 5 www.RichmondTribune.com Ascent and descent By Simon Fowler The first motor sport event to be held on British roads was a trial to climb and descend Petersham Hill in June 1899. The hill has one of the steepest inclines in the London area at one in nine. Even today vehicles can struggle on the ascent. But it was a real challenge for the primitive under-powered cars of 120 years ago. In addition, there was a trial for electric vehicles. The trials were a precursor to the inaugural Richmond Motor Show in the Old Deer Park, which attracted drivers of steam, electric and petrol- powered vehicles from far and wide. Although the internal combustion engine eventually won out, at the time of the Show it was by no means certain that this would be the case. The hill trials took place on Friday 7 June. Entrants started at the Dysart Arms and drove up the 325-yard timed section to the top of the hill to the Star and Garter Hotel (the site of the Star and Garter Home), where they returned back to the starting point, taking part in a brake test on the way down. And, finally, the vehicles had to go up the hill again. The fastest time of the day was on a Barrière Tricycle, timed at 14 mph, followed by a Leitner ‘dogcart’. The gold medal for the best overall performance was awarded to the driver of an 8hp Lanchester. The most eminent motorist of the time the Hon C S Rolls climbed the hill at 8.75 mph in a 8hp Panhard. Rolls is remembered today for his partnership with Henry Royce. The following day there were trials for electric cars, who were not allowed to go faster than 12 mph. The challenging 30-mile route was to Leatherhead via Kingston on the way out, returning via Malden. It was a bit of a damp squib, as only two cars entered. The Richmond and Twickenham Times reported that they were ‘a handsome hooded phaeton’ seating two people and ‘a four-wheeled buggy belonging to the Electrical Undertakings Company’. The trial took just over three hours, with the winner being the buggy. ‘Twice they got off the road – once in a field – and they had made another stop to oil the motors which became heated.’ The phaeton unfortunately ran out of power on the way home. A reporter cycled out to meet it and found it at Petersham: ‘crawling along with very little motive power left’. The machine was stabled at the Dysart Arms, and on the following day ‘it was taken away on a trolley.’ Eat your heart out Egon Musk! www.TwickenhamTribune.com 11h June 2021 - Page 6 www.RichmondTribune.com Marble Hill Horticultural Marvels The Nine pin bowling alley quarter By Kate Slack The nine pin bowling alley quarter is named after the bowling alley which was a feature in Henrietta Howard’s gardens. The archaeology which was undertaken in July found the base of the original nine pin alley from the 18th century which has been reinstated and will allow visitors to experience playing the game themselves when the gardens open. Grass verges edging this quarter, planted up with Nine pine bowling alley in dappled shade Elm trees Some of the other areas in this quarter have been left for our wildlife, in order to provide an undisturbed habitat until the newly planted areas have grown into a dense thicket which will provide much needed cover and shelter for wildlife. The edges of this quarter have been opened up and planted with a mixture of native shrubs as well as ornamental shrubs which will provide a pleasant stroll down the path which will take you to the Nine pin bowling alley.