News and Diary

Hits on this site in December; 80.285. Highest so far is November with 111,434.

A proposed ‘Information sought’ panel will be introduced on this page. Many people ask about families, places and things. Some of these requests are made on Chatterbox* but not many are answered. Perhaps you are too shy to open an account. Don’t be! However, you can always send any information to the Webmaster although a Chatterbox is preferred.

*I am very sorry to report that the Chatterbox Bulletin Board has been Hacked. I am trying to restore it from my backup files but it is a difficult and lengthy job.

In the meantime, if there is something which you would like to say, please go to Feedback
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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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LDFAS Tour to West Country& Wales

Limpsfield Decorative and Fine Arts Society are arranging a tour to the West Country and Wales next May. There are still some places left and they are giving non-Nadfas members the opportunity to join them. The dates are 14th-18th May 2010. Tour comprises 4 nights and 5 days. Read more
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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 Cycling Cycling

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Saturday, 27 February 7.30 pm All Age Concert. Professional adults & young people performing with a wide variety of musical talent - piano, song, flute, clarinet and much more. In aid of St. John's Church, Hurst Green. Tickets £10.00 from Monica Fenton 01883 714095 or 01883 715769. Venue: Hazelwood School
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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  Webmaster
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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. 3rd February 8pm. Talk by warden Mark Richards on Limpsfield Common. Entrty £1. Venue: Red Cross Hall opposite Tandridge Leisure Centre. More info Mrs Jenny Deakin 01883 715496 lodhsgardens@live.co.uk
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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 about Canadian Servicemen in Limpsfield click here. This house in Blue House Lane was 10 Platoon’s HQ.
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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

Photographed 1938/9 at Manor House School. May Griffin (left) and friends and
Ms. Gribble Housekeeper (third from left).

Roll your mouse over to see Manor House Then and Now
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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.

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.

How many of you remember Joyce’s on the Chart? What do you know about it? Lots more pics on the Maps & Pics page. Can you identify the locations?

Growing Your Own Vegetables. Oxted School presents a series of 4 free sessions on growing your own vegetables. 11th February, soil testing. 25th February, seeds and germination. 11th March, greenhouses, hardening off, fertilisers and composting. 18th March, planting out, crop rotation and spacing. Time: 6-7pm. Venue: Oxted School. Free but book all four or individually on 01883 712425 or sciencespecialism@oxted.surrey.sch.uk
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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 Webmaster or use Feedback. If you have something for everybody to read or want to discus, then use Chatterbox

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There are two ways to use this bus
- Ride It or Drive It!

On weekday mornings, LINK runs scheduled bus services, to bring people from outlying districts into Oxted for shopping etc.

Ride It! The Tuesday morning LINK minibus service for Limpsfield Chart is running nearly empty! It needs more passengers to get into Oxted. Other minibus services find plenty of passengers but this one doesn't. It threatens the viability of the route. Don’t lose it.

Drive It! LINK drivers are urgently needed for the Tuesday morning minibus rota. If you want to use the service, or could join the volunteer driver rota, please call Lorna Edser on 732174 for more information. Timetable will be published here soon.

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

The Oxted Band

Saturday 13th February at 7.30pm. Westerham Hall Quebec Avenue. This is the Westerham debut for Oxted's long-established and popular Silver Band. The Band will present a varied programme of music appealling to a wide range of musical tastes. Their latest CD "Amid all the Traffic" will be on sale, which includes the piece 'Laudate Dominum' with which they won theirSection in the Southern Counties Amateur Bands Association's Autumn Contest in 2008. Tickets £5 (£2.50 for children 12 and under). Available from Ibbett Mosely Estate Agent, 28 Market Square, Westerham or ‘phone 01883 716523

For more information, www.oxtedband.co.uk or contact the Oxted Band Chairman,
Dave Relf on 07958 708775.
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The Oxted One World Group next event is the Silent auction on 20th March. Read the Summer 2009 Newsletter here.

See what the charity ACE Africa does about HIV/AIDS.
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If you want to know more about choral singing, take a look at choralsociety.org.uk the site of the Choral Society - WebMag for passionate choral singers. They also list musical events in the area including St. Peter’s organ recitals (now ended).
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Limpsfield & Decorative & Fine Arts Society meets at St Peter’s Hall, Limpsfield 2.30pm and 8pm. On 24th February Denis Moriarty will give a lecture entitled ‘India: the Imperial Legacy‘.

Visitors, who pay a fee of £3.50, need to obtain advance permission from Chairman, Ann Hollywood 01883 712978. The 2009 programme is published here
Are you interested in joining LDFAS? more
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The Bluehouse Festival is coming on the 22nd to 31st October. The third Festival will see the return of the very popular Kosmos String Group, Johan Katz and the Barn Sinfonietta, with a suitably Halloween themed programme and the usual mix of entertaining and thought–provoking authors and speakers. Carlo Curley, concert organist will also be performing. More info from thefestival2010@hotmail.com
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Leith Hill Music Festival 15th-17th April
Opening concert Sunday 14th March 7pm . Combined LHMF choirs sing Bach's St. John Passion with orchestra.

Each Festival morning the choirs, with their own conductors, participate in friendly competition. In the afternoon, they are joined for rehearsal by professional soloists and orchestra under the baton of the Festival Conductor, Brian Kay. The culmination of each day is the evening concert.
FESTIVAL DAYS: 15th-17th April
Competitions 9.15am-1pm Concerts 7.30pm
Venue: Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey
All details are on www.lhmf.co.uk

The Dignity Charity Organ, provided and operated by Colin Fisher of Ebbutts attended many events last year.
(pictured playing outside The Guildhall)

Although the Marie Curie home in Caterham has been closed. the charity still gives support in the local community. You can donate at Ebutt or at the Marie Curie shop in Oxted. Keep looking here for the list of 2010 appearances. Meanwhile...

Are you a Limpsfield Bloomer?
Read about Limpsfield in Bloom 2009 here.

Limpsfield village was awarded 'Gold', the only one for the South and South East Regions. Ann Osborn, said, "Limpsfield had already been judged as the 'Best Large Village' in the regional heats for the second year running, but to win Gold nationally after only three years is almost unheard of. It's a fantastic result and everyone in the village should be proud of the achievement." Read Ann Osborn’s letter and the the pics of local residents here

"At the heart of the village is its community", reported the judges, "and the Bloom campaign has undoubtedly done much to create new friendships and foster community spirit."

The Oxted & District History Society.
On Tuesday 16th February, the Society’s 50th Anniversary Local History Season will continue when Glyn Sherratt will give a lecture on the ‘History of Gatton Park‘.

 Meetings are usually held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 8pm at the Oxted United Reformed. New members are welcome. Annual subscription of £12 is payable at the first meeting which you attend. Contact Patrick Alderton (Chairman) 01883 730976.
Click for the Newsletter and more

Broadway. Limpsfield Chart

Coming soon. Report on Des Hickinbottom’s recent visit to Limpsfield where he was stationed in WWII.

He gave some interesting information about the ammunition dumps. Here he is pictured outside Broadway where he was billeted.
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CAN YOU RECEIVE DIGITAL TV AND WILL YOU BE ABLE TO WHEN THE CURRENT ANALOGUE TRANSMISSIONS CEASE?
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.

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 Editor 01883 713116 or snail-mail
Editor, 47 Bluehouse Lane,
Limpsfield RH8 0AJ

See your copy for news about Marlene Keeble’s proposed picture exhibition. Autumn issue is out now,

Tandridge Handicraft Society programme for Autumn ‘09 and next year is now published. Look here Note slight changes to the programme.

This is the beautiful handmade quilt made by members earlier this year. It raised £1,689 which was split evenly between the local Alzheimers Society and Crossroads charity.

The Oxted & Limpsfield Music Society The next season starts late October. In addition to the 5 main concerts of the season, members who hold serial tickets can attend Club Evenings, musical evenings usually held in members' homes. Brochures now available. Want one? Click here

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.
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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

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

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

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 Glerbe fields development have been moved to an archive here. Latest threat (December 2009) is to the local plan. more

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

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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

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