The old bricked-in ‘Clapperstile’ entrance into Bushy Park was yesterday opened up for the first time since 1934. Developers agreed to re-open this old gate (which dates back to at least 1894) to re-instate this route into to the park as a condition of the new Admiralty Way estate development – originally submitted back in…
Transport For London has been re-thinking where the popular bus ‘Countdown‘ live information boards will live from its 19,000 bus stops across the London area. As well as introducing a new generation of these boards, all existing and potential new locations have been scored according to passenger numbers, proximity to population, interchanges and key local…
Teddington couple Janice and Brian (aged 70 and 71 respectively) have been married for 47 years. They tell their story to the Observer in this article amongst other things how they got together ‘through osmosis’, married in green in a registry office, never had children and went travelling for 7 years. On marriage Brian says…
Police are appealing for the man captured on CCTV at Teddington Starbucks on Friday 12th March at 5:18pm to contact them. There are no specific details but Police wish to speak to this man in connection with an ‘unspecified incident’ that occurred as he sat in the cafe. He is described as slim with a…
The House of Lords today voted against scrapping the Royal Parks car-parking scheme for Bushy and Richmond Park today. Instead a motion to ‘rethink’ the fees was introduced – an outcome seen as a disappointment by campaigners such as Friends of Bushy and Home Parks. The hour-long sitting saw Lib Dems and Conservative peers argue…
Richmond LINk is holding local public meetings to enable members of the community to voice their views and post questions to parliamentary candidates on health and social care issues. The Twickenham constituency session will take place on Monday 15th March (6-8pm) at Teddington Baptist Church where you will be able to discuss these matters with…
Essential maintenance works are to be carried out in High Street, Station Road, Elmfield Avenue, Waldegrave Road to Vicarage Road from 8th-12th March. Large no parking signs have been placed on lamp-posts so check where you are parking if you leave your car in any of these roads overnight – restricted areas should be coned.…
Teddington-based Mike Bryant has been providing specialist hypnotherapist and counselling to customers for nearly thirty years. He works with his patients for a variety of issues including bereavement, depression, lack of motivation/self-esteem, relationship problems, stress, anxiety, panic attacks and eating problems. Natalie – a fan of teddingtontown went along for a hypnotherapy session just after…
The new GP practice at Teddington Memorial Hospital is now open (as of Monday 1st March) – offering longer opening hours and a range of GP services. The new GP opening hours are: Monday-Friday 8am-10pm Saturday-Sunday & bank holidays 8am-9pm Unregistered patients can still use the walk-in centre (same hours) or even make appointments with…
The Hounslow Chronicle reports on how signs of economic recovery can be seen by looking at the recent numbers of empty shop spaces around the borough – with 23 empty units in Twickenham compared to 35 in November. Teddington High Street has officially seen a slight increase from 7 to 8 (up to November) but…
