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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR From Halloween to Christmas and New Year this is a very busy time for all of us. Remembrance Sunday was well attended and a wreath was laid by Geoff Howland on behalf of the Society at the War Memorial. He cleaned up our Poppy Memorial in Elmfield Gardens which provides a focal point of remembrance in the High Street and is particularly apt as this year is the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele. Did you notice all the huge red poppies on lamp posts throughout the town put up by Shane Thompson of Holmes & Daughters and the Royal British Legion? Next year Shane means to turn the whole town red! Some of us have changed our roles in the Society. Judy Asher is now maintaining the website and has handed Minuting over to Nick Picton. Photo journalist Peter Denton has joined us as Vice Chairman. Most importantly as you will read overleaf we are saying goodbye and thanks for all the good tidings to Donald Bell who has raised the standard of our quarterly magazine hugely and will be extremely hard to replace. If you would like to step into his shoes please get in touch with me. Teddington800 comes to a close but leaves behind wonderful memories, lots of new friends made and new members for the Society. Huge congratulations to Anne McTear and the Organising Committee. We'll give a round up of their events and successes next time. Meanwhile our History Banners will go on show next year. A tour de force by Paddy Ching with input from Ken Howe, John Sheaf, Pieter Morpurgo and me they've been much admired at the NPL, the Landmark and the Library. We always need new members so why not try and enrol your friends and neighbours? You can find details online or get membership forms from us. Or give membership as a Christmas present. Remembering the famous Two Ronnies “4 Candles” sketch, I note that the RHS has cards depicting: Fork Handles, Tree Kings & Hoe Hoe Hoe for all you Teddington gardeners out there. So from all of us to all of you a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and see you at the NEW YEAR PARTY. SHEENA CORPORATE MEMBERS Membership Renewals for 2018 1 of 1 Subscriptions will be due on January 1st 2018. 100 High Street Please note that to keep costs down we will not be AlphaVet Surgery sending membership cards to everyone. Architecture:wk • If you already pay by standing order – thank you! Art Historical London Please check this is still set up correctly as in 2017 we Beechgrove Press had several people who thought they had paid by British Maritime Technology standing order but on checking had not! Broom Water Association If you have given us an email address we hope to Byrne Group PLC confirm receipt in January. Otherwise we will send a Churcham House LLP membership card with the next Tidings. Curves • You can renew your membership online at Dexters Estate Agents www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk Elements Hair Salon and you will receive a confirmation email Elleray Hall Social Club • To renew by cheque - post to the secretary and Elmfield House Dental Practice send an SAE if you would like a membership card. Fairwater House Residents Association • Please add £3.50 for postage if you live outside the Harmer Slater (Roger Sutton &Co.) TW11 area or if we need to post your newsletter (eg Home Instead Senior Care you live in a block of flats where our deliverers can Kagan Moss & Co, Solicitors not easily gain access). Kindle Stoves • Set up a standing order. You can download a form La Casa Del Habano from www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk and send this Landmark Arts Centre to the membership secretary Langdon Down Centre Membership rates will remain unchanged for 2018 Lensbury Club Individual: £7, Couple/family: £11 Lifestyle Residences Ltd Senior: Individual £4, couple: £5, Corporate: £25 Mela Mela Payments and queries to Jenny Michell, 5 Broom Park, Milestone Residential Teddington TW11 9RN. tel: 020 8977 0772 National Physical Laboratory email: [email protected] Park Lane Stables Park Road Surgery We welcome the following new members: Parsonage &Co., Solicitors Patricia Barrott Jacqueline and Richard Gibbon Patrick O’Donovan (Maritime & Commercial Arbitrator) Claire Barrott Terence Mattick Quantum Group Jennifer and Geoff Opie Vivienne Tate Shambles Bar and Restaurant Sims (Opticians) Ltd And a new corporate member Snellers Estate Agents John O’Neill – Churcham House LLP Squires Garden Centre St Mary's University TEDDINGTON MUGS Stepping on Out Stevens Tyres Stone Rowe Brewer, Solicitors This is how our Teddington Society coffee mugs have Stoneydeep Residents Association evolved over the years, with the latest on the right. Tamesis Club Teddington Cricket Club Teddington Artists Teddington Bowling Club Teddington Carpet Centre Teddington Choral Society Teddington Funeral Care Teddington Rugby Club Teddington Theatre Club The Fallow Deer These latest very attractive bone china coffee mugs, The Financial Planning Group shown on their own, would make a useful Christmas The French Tarte stocking filler and can be bought from the Teddington The Friends of Udney Park Playing Fields Society stall in the Cedar Road car park on "Christmas The Lensbury Club Lights Up" evening for just £5. The Teddington Society The Park Hotel tea towel will also be on sale, again for just £5. The Strawberry Hill Trust (The coffee mugs can, of course, be purchased at any The Tree Agency time of the year from Stevens Tyres at 25 Church Road, Turing House School Teddington.) TW11 Magazine Zeldaland The Teddington Society LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 1 Avenue Road, Teddington TW11 0BT Reg. Charity No. 802026 The theme of the Teddington Society, printed on the www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk front page of every edition of Tidings magazine is “making Teddington an even better place to live and President - Jenny Hilton work”. In the Bell household we have a constant stream Vice Presidents: of visitors from far away (mainly America and Scotland, Roger Avins, John Demont, Paddy Ching seeking free accommodation). Most come with the intention of “exploring London”, but quickly succumb to Chairman the charms of the High Street, the Thames and Bushy Sheena Harold 020 8977 2700 Park, envious of our good fortune. [email protected] In this issue of Tidings, you will find descriptions of the Vice Chairman and Twitter many activities that will be taking place over the Peter Denton Christmas and New Year period. I hope you will enjoy [email protected] them and possibly make some unexpected new friends. Or look out for someone who needs your friendship. Secretary and Minutes- Nick Picton [email protected] Over the last few years, I have had a wonderful time working with the Teddington Society and editing this Treasurer Magazine. I have had lots of stories written by people Sally Howland 020 8977 9404 whose names appear here, not to mention the hundreds [email protected] of memorable photos that have crossed my desk. Publicity & Promotions (inc. Gardens) The website, and now the Twitter account, are becoming Sheena Harold more important and they offer additional services that a quarterly magazine cannot provide. So this will be my Membership Secretary fourteenth, and last, edition of Tidings. I would like to Jenny Michell 020 8977 0772 thank the many people who have contributed materials, [email protected] advice and constructive criticism over that period, helping to make Tidings “even better”. Website – Judy Asher Magazine Editor - Donald Bell [email protected] THE ADELAIDE Film - Alan Rolph Planning Group Veronica Laughrin [email protected] Roads and Transport Group Brian Holder 020 8977 1579 [email protected] Environment Group Geoff Howland 020 8977 9404 [email protected] History Group Dick Hughes 020 8977 0653 [email protected] Many congratulations to the Adelaide pub and landlady Mariana Craciun, who won a gold award in the pub Riverside and Open Spaces category of this year’s Richmond in Bloom competition. Andy Weston [email protected] Flood Working Group Brian Holder Outings Pamela McHutchon AU REVOIR ANGELA organising guides, boats, meals and suitable routes for the An Appreciation by Sheena Harold all-important coffee breaks. She did it all so well and we all had such memorable times. It is always a shock when “Names are apt to escape but pictures of places are very someone dies clear. There was a lovely Tudor experience in Suffolk. The unexpectedly, no matter Elizabethan house complete with milkmaids, brewers, their age, and that's what candlemakers, weavers, spinners and dyers was a joy. happened with Angela. I'd There was a horse drawn canal trip and another in the seen her only a few days rain plus cream teas. We saw the Olympic park under before her fatal fall and it's construction (here our coach was boarded by a charming hard to realise that she's spaniel looking for explosives). gone. She'd been part of the Teddington Society “We had lunch in the Middle scene for as long as I can Temple and other city remember. adventures accompanied by a Blue Badge guide. There was Angela's father was a trip down the Thames from accountant to King George Richmond to the Chelsea VI and had an office in Physic Garden and many Buckingham Palace. Young Angela used to go knocking other delights. Angela was on the door asking, "Can I come in and see my Dad?" The always deeply interested in family lived in Clapham until WW2 when they moved out architecture and townscapes. to Windsor to be near the Castle where her father then She had a good eye for detail had an office in one of the state rooms.