News and Diary
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80,000 hits per month.
Lots of problems lat year but only some of them the fault of the Web-master. If you believe that some information is incorrect then please say so. The Web-master is dependent upon your input and not invention.
It was pointed out that the list of Limpsfield Parish Councillors was out of date. There is now a link to their official site.
If there is something which you would like to say, please go to Feedback
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Memorial Stores
Evidently, the information on this page is incorrect. The page will be deleted unless
somebody can supply the Web-master with something relevant.
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Kindertransport. Good news.
Dr. Susan Cohen asked if anybody had any information about the Oxted and Limpsfield
Refugee Committee, of which Lady Evelyn Maude was Homes Officer, which operated in 1938-1939 helping find homes for children from Nazi Europe who had come to England on the Kindertransport. Read about it in this
link. Through this web-site, Dr. Cohen is now in touch with somebody in Germany.
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Anne N of Whitstable, Kent found a tiny leather-bound album in a charity shop in Whitstable. Inside is a collection of names and a thank you message from the mothers and babies of the
Infant Welfare Centre, Limpsfield, Christmas 1918. Can you help to identify the families? Pics and more here
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Interested in some gentle cycling
with like-minded ladies? Belinda is keen to find other ladies to cycle with during the week. Rides would start from Limpsfield and travel for 7 to 15 mile. E-mail here 
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Scam alerts and Phishing
are on the increase.
If you receive e-mail purporting to come from HMRC with “Subject: Notice of Underreported Income”, don’t open it or follow the link! If you do you could put something nasty on your PC. Delete it and
tell HMRC if you like.
This information has been moved to here.
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Missing persons, lost contacts ...
I receive requests from people who wish to contact old friends and relatives. I am always sceptical about this sort of thing so
whereas I will do my best to provide information, I will not compromise privacy; it might be somebody you don’t want to know. A relation of Charlie Jarrett is asking for his e-mail.
Somebody is asking for the address of a
South African gentleman named Richard. He was a carer and lived on Limpsfield Chart.
Contact the
Web-master
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New page added on Amos, Jarrett and Limpsfield Chart under History & Genealogy. We have a new contribution from Len Fleckney. Read here. More pictures of the Jarrett family have been sent to me by somebody who unearthed pictures and information from the top of her mother’s loft. Can you provide information?. more
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Limpsfield War Memorial page gives information researched by John Hamblin. Click here
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First Wednesday every month 7.45pm Limpsfield & Oxted District Horticultural Society. Every month will have you entertained with an experienced and
qualified speaker on an abundance on topics! There is a raffle, monthly competition i.e. cut flowers, tea & coffee break with a gardeners questions time! Membership £7 for the year - saving £5.. Venue: Red Cross Hall opposite
Tandridge Leisure Centre. More info Mrs Jenny Deakin 01883 715496 lodhsgardens@live.co.uk
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Broadway. Limpsfield Chart
Coming soon. Report on Des Hickinbottom’s recent visit to Limpsfield where he was stationed in WWII.
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He gave some interesting information about the ammunition dumps. Here he is pictured
outside Broadway where he was billeted.
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Feedback.
Great
interest has been shown in the history of the district. The web-master has received many enquiries from people who used to live in the area Some lived in Limpsfield during the World War II, others had relatives who lived here
centuries ago. E-mails has been received from as far away as Australia, Canada and China. Consequently you now have a History page. One visitor to this site has offered to help gather information.
Please contribute if you can. If the pages look blank it is because nothing has been received Either e-mail Web-master or use Feedback
Click here to add your event or go to What’s On. Free but no commercials
The Oxted & District History Society.
...now has its own web-site here
www.oxtedanddistricthistorysociety.org
Now dig this!
Limpsfield Oxted and Distict Horticultural Society now has its own web-site. Click on the link lodhsgardens.blogspot.com to view
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Rosalind Fanning (née Thompson)
and Carole Armitage (née England) were pupils at The Manor House School. They would be pleased to hear from contemporaries. The Web-master has been sent a collection of School Magazines, letters, Pupil Reports, Timetables
and similar documents from the 1920s and 1930s which he will publish over the next few months. Why not make conctact through the Limpsfield FaceBook account?
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If you want to know more about choral singing, take a look at Choral Society - WebMag for passionate choral singers
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The Oxted One World Group Read the Autumn 2011 Newsletter here.
See what the charity ACE Africa does about HIV/AIDS.
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Limpsfield & Decorative & Fine Arts Society meets at St Peter’s Hall, Limpsfield 2.30pm and 8pm. More information from the Chairman below.
Visitors, who pay a small fee , need to obtain advance permission from Chairman,Rosemary Buchan 01883 722294.
Are you interested in joining LDFAS? more
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YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO RECEIVE ANALOGUE TRANSMISSIONS AFTER APRIL 2012
Which way does your TV aerial point? Have you a Freeview box or built-in tuner? This doesn’t guarantee reception.
Satellite is an alternative but you will need a Sat receiver with a card if you want to receive Five and Channel 4. Free-to-air still requires a one-off payment of £150 to Sky if you want to get these FREE.
Oxted and Limpsfield are on the edge of several transmission areas. However, the chances are that you receive the London signal but when did you last see anything about Limpsfield in local news?
Take a look at BBC London and the Home Counties web-site This site has the single aim of encouraging the BBC to include more stories and features from outside
Greater London in its BBC London Television News Programme. The BBC London TV Region extends 15 miles beyond the Greater London Border so covers Oxted. BBC LDN has a link to Limpsfield-dot-Net.
The Oxted & Limpsfield Music Society now has its own web-site. Click www.oxtedandlimpsfieldmusicsociety.org.uk/
St. Peter’s Limpsfield Parish News. This is published quarterly and produced by a local team. You’ll find it a useful complement to this site. It is free so
don’t be shy to ask for a copy. Contributions (money or articles) are always welcomed. Contact the editor Stephen Mills, 01883 713116 or Editor, 47 Bluehouse Lane, Limpsfield RH8 0AJ
Copy date for Spring 2011 issue is 31st Jan.
Good news! The Link bus is now bus4U
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Appeal for Volunteer Drivers
LINK, Oxted's Community Care Scheme, is currently looking for more volunteer drivers for local and East Surrey Hospital trips for people unable to access public transport within the RH8 area. LINK is looking for extra volunteers to take on half day a fortnight slots. The local volunteer drivers mainly take people to Oxted Health Centre while there is a separate rota of those willing to provide transport to East Surrey Hospital and commit to a regular half day a fortnight.
The volunteers can claim a mileage allowance. Some drivers prefer to volunteer for occasional longer trips to other hospitals in the South East.
Interested? Contact Joan Brackpool on 01883-714095
Tandridge Handicraft Society is still in business but no programme details have been received.
What did Limpsfield look like in 1915?Click the pic to see the view then and now. There are more past and present pictures to come.
Keep looking!
Read about the Limpsfield War Memorial. Have you seen the other at Limpsfield British Legion?
New! Even more pictures of Limpsfield,
Oxted and district can be seen here.
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Serious business.
Here’s something which affects you directly. Click on each for more.
Housing affordability & homelessness.
Housing &
Homelessness Action Group of Churches Together in Oxted & District Spring Fair raised £337. Money will help homeless people in the area. Furnistore, helps people with furniture when they are setting up home. The
Group also funds a transport project administered by Tandridge DC which enables homeless people without funds to travel to accommodation identified for them by the Council in adjoining areas. Some funding is also provided
to local Groups which provide a refuge for homeless people such as the Leatherhead Night Shelter.
Mystery solved. The Furzedown Auxiliary Hospital which existed in Limpsfield during World War One was located in Grubb Street in the house still known as Furzedown. A reader has sent in a photograph and would like more information. Can you help? more
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Read the account of a lady who spent some time working at Manor House School from 1938 to 1939, together with pictures. more
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Ms. Gribble Housekeeper (third from left).
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Click here to read a new contribution regarding the history of Manor House, formerly Stanhopes, sent by Cheryl Nicol, Melbourne, Australia. Can anybody answer her questions?
Limpsfield Home Guard. What do you know about it? More here soon.
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The Limpsfield Village Store has been trading for ten years. AGM in July reported a profit.
Click here to go to the Limpsfield Memorial Stores
Tandridge Voluntary Service Council (TVSC) is a
collection of voluntary members who provide support of many kinds. They include firms, individuals, societies, clubs. On offer are car service, disability advice, care for the elderly. You can get cheap
photocopying, laminating, security cards, word processing, OHP equipment hire etc.
01883 722593 tvsc@btconnect.com
EDENBRIDGE
is a very pleasant place. They have renovated the river banks where there is an
attractive waterside park. The museum is very interesting and covers areas and items which would be of interest to Limpsfield residents. Edenbridge has a twin town in France name Mont St. Aignan. The towns have reciprocal visits; next is 25th to 27th September.
Visit the Edenbridge & District Twinning Association
web-site www.edta.org.uk
Local planning issues concerning Chalkpit Lane lorries, Wolf’s Row development and Glebe fields development have been moved to an archive here. Latest threats can be read here
TraidCraft. Every Tuesday (in term time)
from 10.30-12.30 and 2-4pm, there is a selection of Fairly Traded Goods on sale at the Oxted United
Reformed Church. These include coffee, tea, biscuits, muesli and delicious organic chocolate. Go there and have a look. Buy or just have a cuppa.
See the page for Oxted Fairtrade
What do you know about Crabwood?
It is a Charitable Housing Association which offers SELF CONTAINED FLATS FOR
INDEPENDENT ELDERLY PEOPLE TO RENT.
Oxted, Limpsfield and District Housing Association Limited, more popularly known as Crabwood, owes its existence to Mrs Georgette Parry. Read more->
Even more on their site!
www.crabwood.co.uk
LEGAL and STUFF
Please note! The material on this web-site is copyright. If you want to borrow bits then please e-mail the
Web-master who will usually grant permission. The Copyright of
some items is not owned by the originator of this web-site. In this case, the Web-master will put you in touch with the copyright owner. We want to know where things are going so
PLEASE DON’T NICK ANYTHING.
Some people don’t read this or think they are above the law. At least one picture has been lifted from this site and used elsewhere without any permission. This is an infringement of copyright.
The photographer entitled by law to a credit.
Are you a Limpsfield Bloomer?
Read about Limpsfield in Bloom 2009 here.
In 2010 Limpsfield village was awarded 'Gold'. Can somebody provide an update, please?
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Are you a walker?
There is a Tandridge Border Path comprising 50 miles around the boundary of Tandridge. A booklet sponsored by Tandridge DC is available from the library. It details six paths around Tatsfield, Staffhurst Wood, Dormans, Burstow, South Nutfield, Whyteleafe. It is hoped that permission can be obtained to include details on this web-site.
You might also be interested in the North Downs Ridge Circular Walks. There are six of them. Details from 01737 780176 which is a Reigate & Banstead Borough Council Help Shop.
Ramblers’ Association
There are over 140,000 miles of footpaths in England and Wales. The RA has worked to see that these paths are recorded, open and usable. Occasionally a walker might encounter an obstruction and the RA will sort it out if you send them precise information. Why not join? Go to www.ramblers.org.ukz
Want to give something which won’t cost you a penny? SSAFA is a charity which helps serving and ex-Service men, women and their families. 1-in-4 in our community would welcome some help; very often just a chat over a cup of tea. If you can spare a few hours a week and would like to know more
‘phone ROSEMARY 01737 555369 and please mention Limpsfield-dot-Net
SSAFA received money as a result of the sales of the Gareth Malone inspirational performance with the War Wives. The winning music was written by Paul Mealor who also composed Ubi Caritas for the 2011 Royal Wedding.
Do you need somewhere for weddings, 
events, concerts, conferences
etc? Hire Oxted United Reformed Church. Click here to see the wonderful facilities.
More information from
Chris Bruce-Jones, 722171
chris.bruce-jones@virgin.net
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