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Winter 2014 Inside this issue

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Magazine team: Winter is coming... Editor: Geoff Banks – Tel. 07813 617768 Much of the last edition of The Resident was spent looking back at the Summer of email: [email protected] lovely weather and many wonderful events. This time we’re largely looking ahead, Ann Harington – Tel. 761624 to Christmas festivities and the onset of Winter weather. Peter Hobbs – Tel. 824069 One of the highlights of Winter is the Horsell Christmas Fair, which will take place on Dorothy Smith – Tel. 836031 Saturday 6th December, starting at 3pm. You should find a flyer full of information Please email comments, articles, letters tucked inside the magazine. The Fair is now into its third year after a successful or Horsell photos to: re-launch in 2012 and we hope it will be even better than previous years. We are [email protected] also on the look-out for volunteers to help out on the day. There is a lot to do: setting up beforehand, stewarding during and clearing up the site afterwards, but Published by Horsell Residents’ Association many hands make light work. I have very fond memories of the enormous number Limited. A non-profit company limited by of people who came to help out during the 2012 Jubilation and the speed with which guarantee. Registered number 5377490. the High Street was filled and then cleared as a result. It is wonderful when the Text and photos copyright individual authors and village comes together in this way. If you are interested in having a stall or lending photographers as named. a hand please contact [email protected]. Printed by: Red Eye Print, The Christmas Fair is not the only event to look forward to; check out the What’s On 56 Goldsworth Rd, GU21 6LE. column on page 4. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 772111 Last Winter saw the launch of Horsell Snow Angels, a voluntary initiative that aims Artwork by: TBB Design. to provide basic community support (shopping, path-clearing, dog-walking) for those www.tbbdesign.co.uk Tel: 829185 who struggle to get around in the event of snowfall and icy conditions. A fabulous response from the village saw over a hundred volunteers sign up to help, but while No responsibility for the quality of goods or services advertised in this magazine can be accepted by the the weather was characterised by heavy, heavy rain and howling winds, it didn’t publishers or printers. Advertisements are included in snow at all! Long-term forecasting is difficult, but this Winter is expected to be colder good faith. No part of this magazine may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the prior permission of the than last and snow could be a problem. To that end, the Snow Angels scheme has Publishers. The Publishers do not necessarily agree with been reactivated for Winter 2014. See page 8 for more details. the views expressed by contributors, nor do they accept any responsibility for errors of interpretation in the subject matter of this magazine. All reasonable care is taken to Geoff ensure accuracy in preparation of the magazine but the publishers cannot be held legally responsible for errors in the articles or the return of unsolicited manuscripts, artwork, or projects. Whilst every care is taken, no responsibility can For the blog and twitter feed, contact Debbie be accepted for the safety of material submitted. Debbie’s Email: [email protected] Horsell Residents’ Association Blog: www.horsellresidents.com/blog Contacts Twitter: http://twitter.com/Horsellresident President: Dorothy Smith Tel. 836031; [email protected] The Resident print magazine: Chair: Robin Hoyle Geoff Banks – email: [email protected] Tel: 730045; [email protected] Hon. Treasurer: Carol Cheesman HRA blog – Debbie Aitken – email: [email protected] Tel. 766696; [email protected] Hon. Secretary: Ronald Piper Advertising: Tony Kremer – email: [email protected] Tel: 855108; [email protected] Membership Secretary: Robin Hoyle NEXT ISSUE: Spring 2015 – copy deadline for advertisements 31st January, Tel. 730045; robin_hoyle@hotmail editorial 7th February.

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New businesses on Horsell High Street. Photo: Robin Hoyle.

It seems things are really looking up in the centre of the village! The High Street is becoming more vibrant with new shops opening in long-empty lots. Horsell Framing Company has been joined by Thurstons Brewery and most recently by florist Poppies and Peonies. This has brought new life to the area around The Crown. There are also rumours that a fishmonger and a grocer will soon occupy the shops adjacent to the Co-op, and that the old Co-op building will have a new occupier. Another great piece of news for the High Street is the arrival of a defibrillator, see page 5 for an update on this potentially life-saving equipment.

Ground and the on-going action to restore this Open session Village Open Forum monument. Work on the walls, gates and the We discussed various challenges that lie ahead: It was great to see over 60 residents at the wonderful finial are complete, with activities on the memorial gardens within, including a water Boundary Commission – objections have been second Village Open Forum held at the end feature, due to start soon. If you haven’t taken submitted concerning the proposed council ward of October in the Village Hall. I am pleased a walk on the common around Monument Road boundary changes as part of the consultation. to report that the proposal that Horsell recently, I urge you to explore the area. Transport Review – County Council Residents’ Association should become a David and Paul gave an update on the progress need to make savings of £2m from their charity was passed. The process is now of the new wetlands at Heather Farm. It is hoped transport budget, which could threaten the bus routes that serve Horsell. under way to file all the paperwork, with the they will be open to the public sometime in 2015. They were possibly the only people who were Green Belt Proposals – A review document expectation that charitable status will be in happy about the tremendous amount of rain that (separate from the main Green Belt Boundary place from the beginning of 2015. Being a fell last Winter, as it filled in the new lakes much review referenced on page 4) suggested two charity will allow us to raise funds at our quicker than anticipated! parcels of land on the edge of Horsell for marquee events, the Village Show and There was also a report on the anti-social potentially having Green Belt status removed. Christmas Fair, and to retain these funds for practice of fly-tipping of which the common has These areas are part of and use on other community projects such as seen many occurrences this year. Recently, subject to several layers of protection from development, but we do need to pre-empt any Snow Angels. several loads including toxic asbestos roofing have been dumped. This is especially sad as moves that threaten our common and village. asbestos requires expensive, specialist disposal Please get in touch with me if you’d like to be Horsell Common which drains resources that could be put to much involved in facing any of these challenges, or if Preservation Society better use. there are any concerns you would like to raise. David Robbins and Paul Rimmer from HCPS Thank you to David, Paul and all those involved Robin Hoyle gave an excellent presentation. They provided in looking after the great natural resource that Tel: 01483 730045 background on the history of the Muslim Burial surrounds our village. Email: [email protected]

The Resident – Winter 2014 Page 3 PLANNING

Where can the HRA help? WHAT’S ON I regularly receive phone calls about planning must still go through the various stages of issues, typically asking the HRA to object external review and approval. So as a result 15th October 2014 – 4th January 2015 to one development or another. As such, I we have not objected, but we have publicised The Ingram Collection: Impact of War, thought it might help if I outlined the policy that the review in The Resident and encouraged exhibition at The Lightbox. See Page 12. the HRA Planning Sub-Committee adopts. residents to look themselves at all of the Rule 1: Relevance. If it is in or affects Horsell, proposals in the document, not just the ones 25th November 2014 – 1st March 2015 we are in principle interested. We do not relevant to Horsell. intervene elsewhere, including in Woking These rules can be applied to other matters The Horse At War: 1914-1918, exhibition town centre. Having said that, I am always relating to the Council or Surrey CC. A second at The Lightbox. See Page 12. happy to advise a caller how they could take example would be a proposal to reduce the their objection forward, whether it applies to speed limit on the A320 where it passes Saturday 29th November Horsell or not. Anthonys. Rule 1 applies: we consider Arts and Craft Fair at The Rule 2: Scale and Impact. Small-scale Anthonys to be part of Horsell. Rule 2 applies: Lightbox. 10:30am-5pm. extensions and changes of use would not having both a negative and positive impact involve us. For small issues, Neighbour in the view of some. Rule 3 is irrelevant on Saturday 6th December Notification, which incidentally I proposed this occasion. As the individual who raised back in the Eighties when a Councillor, is the proposal had already taken the matter Horsell Christmas Fair 3pm. See flyer. there to alert people who might object. forward (very persuasively) to their local Rule 3: Undesirable Precedent. This is the Councillor, there was no need for us to Saturday 6th December difficult one. If we think a proposal might set intervene at this stage. I did take the opportu- Woking Choral Society Winter Concert an unwanted precedent if approved, then nity of offering some advice on what evidence at HG Wells Centre. 7:30pm we may well object. Though rare, this can should be gathered if this campaign were to override Rule 2. be successful. We may well get involved as 11th, 12th, 13th December As an example, let’s consider the Green Belt this matter progresses in the coming months. boundary change proposals. Rule 1 applies: The HRA Planning Sub-Committee currently HADS Presents: The Weekend, A some of the changes are within Horsell. Rule comprises myself, former Councillor Michael Comedy By Michael Palin. 7:45pm 2 doesn’t apply: in terms of Horsell, there are Gammon and long-time resident Rob Payne. only small adjustments to the boundary. Rule 3 (7:30pm Sat). See Page 12. However if you have an interest and expertise applies: these changes will set the precedent for development in those corners of Horsell. in this area, perhaps you would like to be Saturday 13th December involved – there is no monopoly on wisdom In practice, they might strengthen the hand of Mosaic Choir annual Christmas Carol the Council, as the new boundary would make in this team, so your input could be of great Service at St Mary’s Church, 7.30pm. the Green Belt line clearer and less open to assistance. contention. After all, the Green Belt proposals Tony Kremer

Page 4 The Resident – Winter 2014 NEWS Celebrating 150 years of HG Wells The Wells & Woking Project team has been busy defining and progressing a possible programme For business visitors: of events for 2015/16 to mark the anniversaries of the famous author’s birth and death. The Launch of the new artwork/history displays in proposals, which together form an ambitious and varied programme, are outlined below. HG Wells Conference Centre. 2015 2016 For everyone: This will be the build-up year, to raise This is yet to be planned in detail, but the A Summer of celebrating HG Wells’s life in summary below will give you some idea of awareness and get a number of important various ways through walks, talks, film, art, what is planned to mark the author’s life on a components launched. So we expect to: music and drama in and around Woking. We grand and national level. open the new HG Wells trail to the sandpits are hoping to mark both his death on the 13th on Horsell Common (a Horsell Common For children and families: August and his birth on the 21st September. Preservation Society project supported by Proposed guided walks led by Iain Wakeford We are still planning an HG Wells Art Woking Rotary Club), entitled Friday Night on Horsell Common, The Exhibition, with film posters alongside works launch new cycle trails and walking tours, Fighting Begins in Maybury and In the Storm created in Woking schools. All being well, we together with on-line information about the at . will climax in September with a programme Points of Interest along those routes, During the Easter and Summer school which is aimed at being a national celebration publicise all the upcoming events within holidays: a series of book displays and of this famous and ground-breaking author. Woking on the landing page of the town’s readings from HG Wells’s books in the Library If you are interested in volunteering for any new WiFi network, and bookshops, whilst at The Lightbox we of the events or activities, please get in touch advertise events across the world on hope they will host various family-oriented activities on an alien theme. with me and tell me what your interest is. VisitSurrey’s new website where we will be updating a Wells page monthly, For Wells enthusiasts: Tony Kremer launch a range of new or reprinted leaflets A programme of talks about HG Wells, science [email protected] and booklets. fiction and as it approached WWI. Tel: 01483 764351

citing the trip as a turning point for them.” - Defibrillator updates Dreamflight website www.dreamflight.org/PRD/ Dr Michael Parris, a great help in our campaign How we can improve your life expectancy. for a defibrillator, is one of the medics involved “Following a Cardiac Arrest the chance of Dreamflight in Dreamflight. In October, he spent 12 days survival decreases by 23% per minute. on their latest trip. I hope he will write about Dreamflight is a UK charity that “believes that It is therefore very important medical this in the next edition of the magazine. fun and joy are just as important as medical treatment starts as soon as possible. The UK Tony Kremer research and equipment“. Established in Resuscitation Council suggests an automated 1987, it takes children with a serious illness external defibrillator (an AED) should be or disability on the holiday of a lifetime to available wherever medical treatment is more Orlando, Florida. Many of the children require than five minutes away. In practical terms this constant medical supervision, such that a means the whole of the UK.” - the Community typical family holiday is out of the question. Heartbeat Trust “Dreamflight is not just a holiday, it does Our campaign, so generously supported by something that medicine can’t. The children the village, has resulted in us buying a defibril- leave their families behind giving them lator. By the time you read this it should have an opportunity to discover independence, been installed behind the Co-op counter. confidence, and a whole new outlook on life. We have laid on the necessary training for Often for the first time, these children realise the Co-op duty managers. This is possible that they are not alone, and they are not the odd due to the generosity of the medical profes- one out. They see children around them who sionals among us: Dr Michael Parris, and his have also suffered, they gain perspective, and colleagues Aideen and Michael. experience things they never thought possible. As per the Autumn Resident, the question of Dreamflight children have gone on to amazing buying a second defibrillator for the Scout & achievements. In 2008, eight of the returning Guide HQ or Village Hall is still open and will Paralympians from Beijing, many of them The new defibrillator for Horsell. Photo: Tony Kremer. be reviewed in the new year. medal-winning, had been Dreamflight children

The Resident – Winter 2014 Page 5 NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH Are you on a burglar’s Christmas list? Christmas is a time when we are most likely Christmas at home: Mark was initially a PCSO to have more valuables in our homes than Don’t leave presents under the Christmas in Elmbridge, where he at any other time of the year – and burglars tree in view of a window. Hide them some- patrolled for know this! How aware and prepared are you? where safe until Christmas morning. three years. In 2010 he moved to his current In search of wisdom The Resident asked Security mark expensive presents, such as Mark Saunders in role of Crime Reduction Paris following an Mark Saunders, who is a Surrey Police Crime electronic equipment with a forensic marking Advisor and concentrates England football Prevention Design Advisor, what advice he product and keep an inventory on a property match. Photo: on the Woking area. can offer based on his experiences. registration website such as http://www. Mark Saunders. The recent police immobilise.com/ reorganisation extended his area to include Advice for Christmas Dispose of Christmas gift packaging carefully. Surrey Heath. His responsibilities are: Empty boxes left outside can advertise to We all know there’s lots to do over the festive thieves what they can find inside. Liaising with architects to ensure measures season but make sure you are not on a are being made to design out crime at the burglar’s to-do list by also thinking about your Going away: early stages of a new development. home security. If you are going away over the festive period Visiting victims of domestic violence to Mark Saunders says “We traditionally see ask a neighbour or your local Neighbourhood ensure they have a suitable level of security a rise in burglary offences with the longer, Watch scheme to keep an eye on your house. to allow them to remain at home. darker nights and increased spending over the Do not post details of your holiday on social Carrying out security audits of car parks to Christmas period. By encouraging residents networking sites. ensure they are eligible for the prestigious to see their property from a burglar’s point Make your house look occupied by using Park Mark safer parking award. automatic timer switches to turn interior lights, of view, we hope to influence a long-term Carrying out residential and commercial radios and/or TVs on and off and ensure you behavioural change and reduce burglary surveys to offer recommendations to cancel your milk and newspapers. offences. Simple steps like taking a minute improve security. Remember to lock all doors and windows to put your car and house keys out of sight Implementing crime prevention strategies and to set your burglar alarm. or putting stickers on your windows letting across the borough to tackle emerging crime people know your property is marked could Woking Association of Neighbourhood Watches trends. (WAN) has on our web site an excellent be all it takes to make an opportunist burglar Mark and his wife are very keen England booklet giving advice about protecting you and decide it is not worth their while targeting football fans having travelled all around the your property entitled “Stay Safe”. world to watch their team play. Mark is also your property.” http://www.windowonwoking.org.uk/sites/wan/ an enthusiastic marathon runner and raises Local officers will be appearing at a number of security/NhWAdvice.pdf funds for cancer charities. He has stated that public events around the county highlighting Mark Saunders he hopes to run 100 of them in his lifetime. So the risks of burglary at this time of year and far he has run 10 with two more to complete what can be done to reduce them. Surrey We also asked Mark about himself as he is a hidden face behind the many valuable crime this year. Police will also be carrying out additional reports and snippets of security advice we Alan Taylor, operational activities targeting high-risk areas receive through the Woking Neighbourhood NhW Area Co-ordinator for Horsell and known offenders. Watch organisation. Many may have met Tel: 01483 766816 Surrey Police recommend the following: Mark on the police stands at local events. Email: [email protected]

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and the Village Hall with its new extension New Scout & Guide HQ, Institute & Hall towards 3pm. All three buildings will then be open for viewing by the public until 5pm. Extension Official Opening – New Date The Rev. Sarah Hayes, Vicar of St Mary’s Church, Tony Bowman of Horsell Scouts It is with great regret that we have had to several months in the future because it is and I do hope that as many villagers as postpone the official opening of the three the next available Saturday for which the possible get this opportunity to have a buildings. This is due to the ongoing work Village Hall is free; during term-time it is in look round the buildings and see what on the car parking areas, landscaping and use every Saturday. has been achieved through co-operation street lighting, which is now due to continue Our Mayor and local Councillor, Tony with Woking Borough Council, its local until December. The new date for the official Branagan will open the Institute around Councillors and Officers, and with the opening is Saturday 18th April 2015. This is 2pm, the Scout & Guide HQ at about 2:30pm money put in by the Council.

For our Hall users, we can only apologise the Village School and St Mary’s Church. Site progress that the external works, the fitting out of the Until this is sorted out, early in 2015, the kitchen and the creation of the new disabled final parts of the landscaping of the overall As you are probably aware, work is still toilet on the lower ground floor have taken scheme cannot be completed. Unfortunately ongoing long after the project was due so long. These items should have been this means the mound of topsoil that will be to be finished. There were a number of finished by the time you read this. used to cover the landscaped areas will setbacks with the main contractor following remain a mound for a while longer. the very wet Winter and Spring, coupled Unfortunately the diversion of the public with a shortage of sub-contractors. With footpath that runs between our buildings In closing I would just like to record publicly the revised timetable, the Scout & Guide and the Bowls Club has been put on hold my sincere thanks to all our Hall trustees HQ should have been occupied in June and pending a Judicial Inquiry because of together with the Scouts & Guides and the the Hall given to us for re-painting in early an objection to changing the route. The Vicar of St Mary’s for their cooperation in July, but further delays were encountered. plan was to remove the old footpath and helping me to complete this most complex Ultimately, both buildings were handed over create two new ones, the first skirting the and major transformation of not just the for use on 1st September, but with limited Queen Elizabeth II Gardens to reach the Hall, but the whole complex of the three access and several areas not finished. For High Street much closer to the shops, and buildings. example the Village Hall kitchen was not the second reaching the High Street near Roger N Chamberlain, available until late October. the Red Lion giving a more direct route to Chairman, Horsell Village Hall Trustees

The Resident – Winter 2014 Page 7 SECOND THURSDAY CLUB

can handle money for shopping, and these Michael A Hall of volunteers will be the first ones to be contacted. SSAFA, collecting Angels poised at the Poppy Not all of our volunteers will be around on Parade. Photo: any given day, but we have a system to work Geoff Banks. for snow out which volunteers are in Horsell each day Horsell Snow Angels, the volunteer task force when the service runs. We have snow shovels, set up by the Second Thursday Club, are grit, gloves, and warm clothing, and we are ready and waiting for the first snow or ice of all connected by text messages and mobile the season. The organisers want to make sure phones so that we can easily respond to those everyone knows the number to call, 01483 who need our help. 380025, should they need help. The organisers are keen that everyone knows Last year, after a flurry of planning, we didn’t get to test out the service because there about the service so that they can help lots of was no snow at all. That was unusual; in an people this year. The service is intended not average year in Surrey, there are 10-15 days just for those who need help all through the when it snows and 5-10 days when snow lies year, but for anyone who needs temporary help on the ground. At the time of writing, weather just when it’s snowy or icy. Fridge magnets are forecasters are pointing to strong signals available to remind you of the number, in the supporting a big freeze with snow for the UK Pharmacy, Primo’s Cafe this Winter. If it happens, we will be ready. and other local outlets. If During these times, the Snow Angels provide you would like a bundle basic shopping, light snow clearance and dog of fridge magnets for walking for those who find it difficult or risky. The Snow Angels don’t use cars, as all of its your organisation, please over 100 volunteers are local to the village, so contact me. SSAFA thanks you services are provided on foot. Helen Cammack SSAFA Woking Division is very grateful to We have over 60 of our volunteers who Horsell Snow Angels Robin Hoyle Chairman of Horsell Residents’ have been DBS checked, which means they Tel: 01483 380025 Association and The Rev. Sarah Hayes, vicar of St Mary’s Church, for being their nominated charity at the Horsell Village’s Centenary Anniversary WWI Parade of Poppies event Horsell 1914-2014 on 3rd August. The residents’ generosity was I have written a history booklet, Horsell Village demonstrated by the fact that £530.69 was Life Through A Century From 1914-2014, based raised for SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen around a lovely collection of poems by Marguerite and Families Association). For every £1 raised Diboll. She lived in Horsell most of her life and nationally, £0.98 goes to our clients. wrote about her memories of the village from SSAFA is the oldest Armed Forces charity. It about the time of WWI onwards. I thought it was also the only Service charity operating would be fun to compare what she remembered in WWI. It started in 1885, when the 2nd about Horsell to what has happened since, Expeditionary Force set sail for Egypt. Major both in the village and to society as a whole. James Gildea wrote to The Times appealing for Many thanks are due to all the people I had funds and volunteers to look after families left fascinating chats with whilst researching the behind. Within three months SSAFA was born, book, and particularly to Peter Hobbs for his skilful following two fundraising appeals by Queen typesetting and formatting. Copies are priced at £5 and available from village shops such as Alexandra and the Prince of Wales. Spar and Needle & Thread, or direct from myself. We are extremely grateful to those that Anthony Saunders supported SSAFA – thank you. Tel: 01483 762190 Simon Booth-Mason, SSAFA Woking Divisional Secretary

Page 8 The Resident – Winter 2014 Most importantly of all, please write the 25th July in your diary now so that you don’t miss out. We will keep you posted on our plans! EVENTS Marion Piper, Secretary, Horsell Village Show Dates for your diary Tel: 01483 855108 Horsell Village Show, Horsell Garden Safari, 25th July 2015 2012 Village Show. 13th and 14th June 2015 Photo: Geoff Banks. Continuing with the theme of looking ahead to Many of you may wonder why we are making a mention of Horsell Village Show when it is looking for “The Best Birthday Cake”! next Summer, we are looking for people who are prepared to open their gardens, large or still so many months away. The committee Such an occasion calls for other even more small, as part of next year’s Garden Safari. has already been working hard putting plans wonderful entries to all the various classes into place for next July. It will celebrate shows from local residents and the themes will be This has been a growing success for the last held in the village over the last 150 years and shown in the schedule and will be in keeping twelve years and has raised over £37,000 gives us an excuse to make it a really special with the period theme. If you can’t wait for towards upkeep of the Village Hall, but we occasion! the schedule next year, look for updates on need your support to keep it going. If you are We have been seeking ways to entertain you our website (www.horsellvillageshow.co.uk). interested, please get in touch. and your family, with plans being made for a Although the show is not going to be held until Penny Kramer, new food court to cater for those who want next Summer, you can start preparing now. You Trustee of Horsell Village Hall a bit of lunch before tucking into the very could plan what you want to grow, Google floral Tel: 01483 761455 scrumptious cream teas that St Mary’s Church art ideas or practise baking a Victoria sponge. will be providing. We hope to have plenty of You will also be able to book a craft stall from Photo: Geoff & craft stalls, with that special “anniversary” the Spring of 2015 onwards. Caroline Hughes. theme. We are considering “dressing up” We really hope that the show will be something a little in keeping with years gone by – and for everyone to remember for years to come. hope that lots of you will join us with that. If We plan to have a “Memorabilia Box” to keep you want to find out more about the history of for future generations to uncover, where the show you will be able to, as local residents they can find out what their village did at the have unearthed all sorts of information, some show in 2015. If you have any ideas on what of which will surprise you. There is still much to entertainment you would like us to arrange, be finalised, but it is a good start. The cookery or if you have a special skill of your own section will once again include “The Great that would entertain everyone, please give me Horsell Bake Off” and appropriately this will be a call. A PURE GENIE-US OF A PANTOMIME! CBEEBIES SUPERSTAR JUSTIN FLETCHER AS WISHEE WASHEE BEN ADAMS STEVEN ARNOLD AS ALADDIN AS PC PONG JASON SUTTON SHAHEEN AS WIDOW TWANKEY JAFARGHOLI AS GENIE OF THE LAMP

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The Resident – Winter 2014 Page 9 HELPING THE COMMUNITY Project Woking Area U3A Woking & Sam Wenceslas seeks group leaders Beare Hospices Following our success last year in raising Do you have an interest or knowledge you building plans £3,700 (amongst £47,000 raised across West could share with others? Could you lead a group for the Woking Area U3A? Surrey) to help those in fuel poverty in our Plans for our new Hospice building, to be district, Woking Lions Club has joined with our The University of the Third Age movement located in Denton Way, , is a unique and exciting organisation which local Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) to repeat have been drawn up and presented at three provides life-enriching opportunities for people our Good King Wenceslas project this year. public meetings over the last few months. Our who are no longer in full time work. At the heart new building will accommodate a welcoming Our request is for those of you who receive the of any U3A is its groups, where members join café, hospice day service, 20 in-patient beds, Winter fuel allowance but can manage without together to follow an interest and share their education suite, hospice community outreach it, to donate it to those who are less fortunate. skills and knowledge. The Woking Area U3A teams and space for our administration team To this end a special account has been set-up continues to grow, and has almost 100 groups covering a wide variety of subjects. and fund-raisers. This state of the art building by the CAB in Woking, into which you can is scheduled to open in Spring 2016. pay. The CAB will then use this income to Additional group leaders are now needed as If you would like to experience the new building pay the fuel debt for local people who are in several groups have proved to be so popular you can take a virtual tour online at www. fuel poverty i.e. struggling to meet the cost of that they are over-subscribed. Leaders are not expected to be teachers; all that is needed is wsbhospices.co.uk/newhospice heating and lighting their homes. The fund will enthusiasm, an interest and knowledge in the If you would like to support our work there are be controlled by the CAB and all donations and subject, and a wish to share this with others. many ways of getting involved over the coming payments will be kept private. They can act as a co-ordinator or facilitator, months. Join our Light up a Life Services to Any cheques should be made payable to simply guiding the group, or they can offer remember a loved one, take part in our Santa “Woking Lions – CAB” and taken or posted more in-depth learning if they wish. There is Fun Run for all the family or take on one of our no curriculum to follow, no entry requirements, to the CAB Office at Provincial House, 26 New Year challenge events to help raise funds no exams and the local Woking Area U3A Commercial Way, Woking, GU21 6EN. for us. Find out more on our website www. Committee is always on hand to offer support wsbhospices.co.uk/events We would be delighted if any residents would and guidance. We are particularly keen to hear be prepared to donate part or all of their Winter from people who would be willing to cover a Dorte Johansen fuel allowance to this good cause. If you do, subject which has an existing full group, or for my colleagues and I would like to thank you in something not covered at all. Have a look at advance for your donation. Your contribution to Woking Area U3A’s website to find out more this initiative to help our fellow residents who about us, the interest groups and other activities are in financial difficulties during the coming we organise; this also gives information on how Winter months will be to join. http://www.wokingareau3a.co.uk most appreciated. If you think you would like to join up with a few like-minded people who share an interest and Roger N Chamberlain, could lead a group, please contact our Groups President, Woking Secretary: Email groupsec@wokingareau3a. Lions Club co.uk Tel: 01483 724516 Jackie Ring Architect’s impression. Photo: Hunters.

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Page 10 The Resident – Winter 2014 YOUNG PEOPLE remembers local victims of WWI In early November, Woking High School students and staff took part appears on the Old Woking Memorial as well as in a series of events to remember the Great War. Using resources the Woking town centre memorial and the Westfield created by Matthew Jones, Head of History, students were School banner. Stanley was the son of William invited to explore and discuss and Rosina Allard and was killed in action on 18th the devastating effects of the October 1916. He was just 25 years old. Great War, focusing on our local On November 11th the school shared in a very community. special two-minute silence and cascade of poppies, Students considered why we marked by the Last Post and Reveille, played by Year 11 student remember the fallen and how we Adam Best. Representatives from each Form group then placed a should commemorate the Great small wooden cross in the ground, each bearing the name of one War and its impact. They then of the 764 residents of Woking who lost their lives in the Great War. looked more closely at a group In the evening, those who attended our Concert of Remembrance of six men, whose names appear were greeted by the sight of these crosses surrounded by candles, on local memorials in Woking and an idea that came from the students. The evening programme the surrounding area; some of our consisted of musical performances and poetry readings performed young people will follow this up by students and members of staff. with further research into the lives The events have given all at Woking High School a chance to reflect of those men. and have enriched our understanding of the history that has shaped One of the locals studied was our lives and our community. Private Stanley Nelson Allard Private Stanley Nelson Allard of Emma Williams Photo: Woking News & Mail 50 High Street, Woking. His name Head of Citizenship, Woking High School

Tower-top tea party On a warm July evening I entertained the enthusiastic 8th Woking Guide troop, along with their leaders Claire Draper and Kate Spencer-Jones, to a rather unusual tea party at the top of St Mary’s Church tower. The Summer weather was superb and the Guides enjoyed a wonderful view across Woking. Two members of the St Mary’s congregation, Mike Couper and Barry Squibb, pointed out local landmarks and the Guides’ own homes. The tea party was part of the Guides’ celebrations for the Big Brownie Birthday, marking 100 years of Brownies. “Having tea in an unusual place” is one of the challenges these Horsell based Guides have completed this year to earn their Big Brownie Birthday Challenge badge. Leader, Claire Draper, said “We’ve had a great year at Guides, and this was Rev. Sarah Hayes and a wonderful way to mark the end of term. We’re really grateful to Mike Couper host 8th Sarah and her team for making it possible.” Woking Guides’ tea party. Photo: Sarah Hayes. The Rev. Sarah Hayes

Somers Scouts, where a packed programme of activities enabled Three Gold Awards for our 18 Scouts to earn over 150 badges. We held a Badge Award ceremony on 30th June in our HQ, where family and friends 1st Horsell Scouts recognised the fantastic achievements of all of our Scouts. The Scout of the Year was voted by the Scouts to be Chris Pearce, while Three Scouts from 1st Horsell Somers troop were formally awarded The Most Improved Scout of the Year Cup was awarded to Ryan their Chief Scout’s Gold Award Certificates at a County Presentation Lees. Finally, the inaugural Patrol of the Year Shield was awarded in Banstead on Saturday 12th July 2014. They joined 35 other to the Falcon patrol led by Daniel Seabrook. Scouts from across Surrey in being awarded their certificates in front of an audience of local dignitaries, families and leaders. Jim Fitzgerald The Chief Scout’s Gold Award is the highest award in Scouting. It represents a huge level of commitment and dedication by the Scouts. It required them to give numerous presentations and interviews to the troop as well as our District Commissioner, Liz Pocknell. Highlights of their challenges included learning new skills and taking leadership and responsibility while earning the following award badges: Adventure Challenge: canoeing, climbing and shooting. Community Challenge: helping Surrey Wildlife Trust clear Common and litter picking in Horsell. Outdoor Plus Challenge: helping to plan and lead our recent camps at Polyapes and Scoutabout. The award of the Chief Scout’s Gold Award is the first in many years Gold Award recipients Daniel, Matt and Tom together with Peter Lee, High Sheriff for 1st Horsell scouts. It marks the end of a very active year for of Surrey, and leaders Jim Fitzgerald and Ian Cartwright. Photo: Libby Davis.

The Resident – Winter 2014 Page 11 ARTS

smooth-talking Hugh Bedales. The result is a War Horse at the New London Theatre. HADS Presents: comic clash with Stephen growing increasingly Photo: Brinkhoff Mögenburg. irritated by the “idiots” around him. As you might The Weekend expect from the pen of the former Python, the humour, some of it very sharp, turns into Horsell Amateur Dramatics Society (HADS) poignancy with strong drama among the comedy. are putting on a play by the multi-talented Director Tony Charters said: “It’s a play that Michael Palin in December. The veteran actor, I’ve wanted to direct when I first read it in 1998. broadcaster and author wrote The Weekend Getting back into drama with HADS in recent in 1994. It has been described as “a comedy years has given me the opportunity to realise my with teeth” and has characters that the whole ambition of staging this extremely good play. It’s audience will identify with. not just the comedy elements that I enjoy, but At the centre of the action is the world-weary also the surprising depth of emotion. It is a play Stephen Febble, who is the exact opposite that will make people laugh as well as cry.” been loaned to The Lightbox by the Victoria of Palin, “the nicest man in show business”. The HADS production at the Rhoda McGaw and Albert Museum’s Theatre and Performance Stephen’s peaceful life is disturbed by a family theatre, Peacocks Centre, Woking, features Collections. This will be the first time that ‘Joey’ gathering, organised by his long-suffering wife Colin Grady as Stephen, with Denise Bailey as will have been shown in an exhibition outside of Virginia. Visiting for the weekend are their Virginia. The cast includes Brian Coope, Jackie London. daughter Diana, her dreary husband Alan, their Robb, Henry Arthur, Jill Coles, Matthew Kitsell, The exhibition will also investigate the effects precocious child and their incontinent dog. Daisy Inglis and Carol Hanson. that losing thousands of horses to the war effort Stephen responds to this unwelcome interruption The tickets at £12.65 (£10.60 Concessions) are had on the local Surrey farming communities with lashings of whisky and even larger lashings on sale now on the HADS website, horsellads. and other businesses that relied on horses for of biting sarcasm. com or via Carol Hanson, Tel: 01483 767751. transport. The tension, and Stephen’s reactions, are It will run from Thursday 11th December to The Horse At War will be at The Lightbox from heightened when the family is joined for dinner Saturday 13th December at 7.45pm (7.30pm on 25th November 2014 until 1st March 2015. by the neighbours Duff and his wife Bridget, Saturday). who also invites her “society chiropodist”, the The Ingram Collection: Images of war Impact of War The Lightbox gallery and museum will This exhibition features work by official war commemorate the centenary of World War One artists, their contemporaries, Post-War artists with two special exhibitions. One will highlight the and contemporary artists who create responses often mischaracterised role of the horse in WWI, to conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries. while the second explores the impact of war on During both World Wars, the government artists through the 20th and 21st centuries. commissioned official war artists, two of whom will feature in the exhibition: C.R.W. Nevinson, The Horse At War 1914-1918 appointed in 1917 and Graham Sutherland, Exploring the role of the horse in World War appointed in 1942. Nevinson’s appointment One, this exhibition will compare the glorified followed a successful first exhibition which image of Officers and their chargers at war caused a stir due to its realistic depictions of life with the piteous desolation of these animals as and death on the Western Front in the First World beasts of burden when faced with gunfire and War. Graham Sutherland was commissioned trench warfare. to record Britain at war in all aspects, from the The Lightbox is delighted to announce that ‘Joey’, bombed out East End to the tin mines at Geevor, the original West End horse puppet from the Cornwall. The darkness of his landscapes hints National Theatre’s acclaimed stage adaptation at ominous symbolism. Colin Grady as Stephen Febble. Photo: Tony Charters. of Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse, will The Impact of War is at The Lightbox until 4th feature in the exhibition. The puppet has kindly January 2015.

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Leatherhead. This money will be placed in the Photo: DMRC Benevolent Fund, which purchases Rhoda Horsell Bowling Nevins. special goods and services for the patients while Club season ends they undergo their rehabilitation programmes The Summer season ended in bright sunshine over and above the usual facilities provided by on Sunday 28th September with a successful the public purse. A tour of the centre and the Drive, followed by a delicious tea provided by facilities available was very illuminating and club members. This was a bitter-sweet occasion showed how much is done for injured service for Horsell Bowling Club as we said goodbye men and women. to several senior club members, including Club Not all activity has ceased. The Green Keepers, Captain Heather Nice. These members were all led by Tony Martin, will still tend the grass; moving out of Horsell to be nearer their families, scarifying, weeding and feeding so that all is versions that followed are a key foundation of but will be joining new clubs in their chosen areas. ready for next year. We will be looking to recruit British constitutional law. The result of the Captain’s Charity collection, new members next April, but if you feel that you Royal embroiderer Rhoda Nevins has been a cheque for £1220 was presented to Marine would like to know more about Horsell Bowling commissioned by Runnymede council to Warrant Officer George Dent at Headley Club and lawn bowls, please contact me. commemorate the anniversary by embroidering Court Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Tricia Nigh 12 panels, using appliqué techniques with silk Tel: 01483 760170 fabrics and gold threads. The first four panels Email: [email protected] are dedicated to the Magna Carta Trust towns: Bury St Edmunds, St Albans, Runnymede and Canterbury. The first panel was started in 2012 Magna Carta and it is hoped to complete all 12 by next May in time for the royal viewing in June. embroidery Rhoda lives locally, is a member of the Royal As well as being the 150th anniversary of the School of Needlework and helped embroider the Horsell Village Show, 2015 sees the 800th Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress. She anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta, has 12 people in her team and I consider myself lucky to be included and to be able to take part. Heather Nice and Tricia Nigh presenting a cheque for £1220 one of Britain’s most important historical to Marine Warrant Officer George Dent. Photo: Mike Nigh. documents. The original Magna Carta and the Penny Kramer

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children were given the afternoon off; Ada and escorted their queen, Mrs Hutchinson Driver, A page’s tale Ida had hoped that they would be allowed to the celebratory dinner, their role being to to stay at home on the morning too, but ensure that her train was suitably arranged. The Autumn edition of The Resident included both sets of parents sent them off to school, Then they went home, each carrying a box of a photograph of Woking’s carnival queen and saying that there would be plenty of time to chocolates presented to them by the carnival her attendants in 1923. One of her pages still get ready for the procession when they came organisers. Ada recalls that Mrs Hutchinson home for lunch. The costumes, consisting of remembers that day. Driver went to Paris to recuperate from being tricorne hats, knee breeches, coats with ruffles That Summer the two pages, Ada Green and showing at their cuffs, embroidered waistcoats the carnival queen. She bought presents for Ida Waters, were both 13 and in their last year and lace cravats, were all supplied. All that the pages while she was there: a ceramic at Maybury Road school. The carnival was the girls’ families had to contribute were white crinoline lady each, with more chocolates on a Wednesday afternoon, early closing day knee high stockings and black T-bar shoes. inside. After the chocolates were eaten, Ada in the town, so everyone with a job in a shop Ada enjoyed riding on a float in the carnival kept her lady for another 80 years or so. was able to watch if they wished. The school procession. When it was over, she and Ida Jan Mihell

likely derived from ‘sith’ and ‘wode’, may mean a scythe-shaped wood, and is an important What’s in a name? name. Although its location is now over the border in Goldsworth Park, giving its name to On the origin of Horsell place names a road and a school, it was the name of one of the two divisions of Horsell parish. The study of place-names and their origins found together as ‘Horsele’ until about 1255. It is not always wise to look for geographical is one of the most hotly contested areas of Several early names existed in forms which meaning in road names. Some include the research and there is always room for further are recognisable today: descriptions of Pyrford surnames of earlier owners of the land, such speculation. Horsell, for instance, has nothing in 675 AD and 956 AD feature Mimbridge, as Bonsey, Collyer, Cobbett, Hammond, to do with horses or hills, but probably means Parley, Wapshott and Sythwood. Mimbridge Walden or Emmet, or the names of large ‘muddy shelf’, that being the raised ground was by a lost ‘Mint field’, Parley (after which houses demolished and replaced by small upon which the church stands. However, Parley Drive is named) was ‘pear clearing’ developments, such as Southcote, Graylands, ‘horig’ and ‘scylf’, the two elements which have and Wapshott, originally on the common, Thurlton, or . Pares Close is named led to that definition, are Anglo-Saxon and not probably means ‘weeping corner’. Sythwood, after Canon Norman Pares, a much-loved

Page 14 The Resident – Winter 2014 1. Kettlewell Hill, with Palmerston Road, now Woodham Road, leading off to the right behind Vale Farm barn c.1900. 2. Lime Tree Walk, later known as Church Path, but Lime Tree Walk later restored on the footpath sign c.1938. 3 3. Vicarage Lane, now Wilson Way, which led to the vicarage in the time of Canon Pares c. 1910. 4. Wilson Way c.1960. 1 2

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Vicar of Horsell from 1897 to 1935, and still the owned by Newark Priory or Westminster Abbey. replaced much older names. Woodham Road, only ordained person to have won the FA Cup. ‘Close’ is the most-used street designation part of the development of eastern Horsell Wilson Way is possibly named his nephew in the whole borough, present in a quarter from the estates of the Roake, Fenn and Back Geoffrey Wilson, who died young, and about of all street names, although none dating families, was initially named Palmerston Road. whom we should like more information. from earlier than 1934; Common Close and Palmerston Close exists as a reminder of this. Other names go back to when there were Wheatsheaf Close being among the earliest Woodham Rise was originally Albany Road, no surnames. Robert atte Heth, William de uses. Bullbeggars Lane continues to mystify; after the Duchess of Albany, a daughter-in- law of Queen Victoria, who lived at Claremont la Welle and Henry de Hulle have given the the estate now known as Lakeview once and frequently appeared at Woking events. distinguishing parts of their name to their included that name, as did Wapshott Farm. Fletcher Road, now Horsell Vale, was probably localities of Heath Hill Farm, Well Farm and Hill We find no links with bulls or beggars; the word named after a developer colleague of Richard Place respectively. Many names are first found probably comes from ‘bullbear’ (a version of Brettell, who sold much of this land. Another in the 17th century or later, and no source ‘bugbear’), or ‘boggarts’, evil spirits, possibly possibility exists; there was an earlier Joseph is certain for some elements of Kettlewell, conjured up by visions seen in the movements of marsh-gas in the area. The former ‘Gallows Fletcher who founded a Baptist church (which Thornash, Grobars (originally Grove Barrs). became Alwyne House) and a ragged school South Road, in the north of the village, must Lane’, around the Ridgeway and Morton Road, has romantically been seen as the site of the at Potter’s Corner, where the eastern end of refer to its being on the south side of the Woodham Road now runs. common, and Cheapside (first recorded in the parish gallows, but the late Robert Boyton 19th century) may be an ironic reference to believed that the name was a corruption of the Richard & Rosemary Christophers bustling Cheapside in the City of London. Abbey name ‘gullis’ or ‘gulley’ given to fields nearby. Woking History Society Big Phil 85 x 58 The Resident 2014_Layout 1 07/02/2014 09:08 Page 1 Road could be named as the site of a farm Finally, some recent developments have Acknowledgements: The Place-names of Surrey (Cambridge, 1934); John Craig Eastern Horsell’s development after the coming TRADING IN SURREY FOR OVER 40 YEARS of the railway (Woking, 2006); John Craig Ryde’s 1851 survey of Horsell Parish (Woking, 2012); The Victoria Big Phil County History of Surrey (London, 1903); articles in First choice for The Woking History Journal, no.1 and Horsell Matters COMPUTERS in 1999; Audrey Rosset and Henry Daniels ‘Mixing and matching: a study of the Woking street-namestock’ in the domestic appliance Journal of the English Place-name Society, no. 33 (2000). Windows, Illustrations are courtesy of The Lightbox. repairs and service Email, Word and Excel Tutoring • Fixed call-out All versions of Microsoft Windows and Apple • Fast response operating systems installed or repaired. Home Networking, Wired and Wireless. Quality Tutors of Woking • Built-in / freestanding machines Virus Removal, Internet Security & PC Upgrades. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAMS, PC’s Built to your requirements. PRE-TESTS AND 11+ EXAMS Call 01483 539531 Let us find the Solution to your problem. Competitive Rates (No Fix - No Fee)  One to One Tuition  Tailored to your Child’s Needs Mobile: 07836 711866  CRB/DBS Checked Office: 01932 348096  Competitive Rates Web Site: www.bigphilcomputers.co.uk  Based in Horsell Email: [email protected]  Maths, English, Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning  Success in Local Independent School Entrance Exams Areas Covered: Addlestone, Bisley, , Chobham, www.rsmdomesticappliances.com Cobham, Guildford, Horsell, Lightwater, New Haw, Website www.qualitytutorswoking.com Ockham, Pyrford, Ripley, Send, , West End, Email [email protected] Weybridge, , Woking and Woodham Telephone: 01483 722356

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