February 2009 Archives

A local census will be studied at the next lecture of the Ottershaw Society.

On Tuesday March 24 Geoff Bourne will take his audience through the census of Ottershaw residents from historic times.

All are welcome.

Doors open at 8pm at Brook Hall, in Brox Road and cost of entry is 50p.

Proposed council tax levels for the next financial year have been cut after a last minute decision by Runnymede Council's leader.

Cllr for Addlestone Bourneside John Furey made a speech at a special council meeting on Thursday February 12 where he proposed to cut the tax for a Band D property from £133.11 to £132.93.

Christ Church in Ottershaw are starting a five session programme on Wednesday February 25.

The church's Lent course will run on alternate Wednesdays and Thursdays from February 25, which will be based on 1 Corinthians 13, where they will hear its comparisons with modern times.

For more information ring 01932 705260.

A 1940s photograph which was dropped in an Ottershaw street has posed some interesting questions for the people that found it.

The black and white snap shows three children, one on a toy horse, in a garden in Devon 60 years ago.

Someone has written 'Croyde Bay' and the date 30/8/49 on the bottom left hand side, but there are no clues about who it belongs to or where it has come from.

A family had a lucky escape from a fire at their home in Ottershaw after children playing outside in the snow alerted them to the blaze.

The children knocked on the downstairs window of the house in Tringham Close at 11.30am on Monday February 2 after they spotted smoke coming from an upstairs window.