Clubs & Societies

DEDICATED staff from a Chertsey gym used pedal power to raise money for Sport Relief at a supermarket last Thursday and Friday (October 27 and 28).

Iain Hayes, 18, a trainer at the River Bourne Club, sacrificed a day off work to join colleague Sofia Hernandez, 19, to cycle on an exercise bike at the Tesco store in Addlestone.

PLOUGHMAN from across Britain and Ireland descended on Surrey for the annual Chertsey Ploughing Match on Bank Holiday Monday.

A new Guiness World Record was set at the 168-year-old event held at Wey Manor Farm in New Haw in perfect ploughing conditions when 24 two-wheel tractors took to the field at the same time.

To set the record the organisers of the match had to have at least 20 Iron Horse-style tractors plough the field at a depth of 5ins sustained for five minutes.

Come and relive the moment when cricketing history changed forever! In the footsteps of the legendary 18th Century Chertsey Cricketer, Lumpy Stevens - the instigator of the 3rd stump.
Chertsey Cricket Club, The Edward Stern Sports Ground, Grove Road, Chertsey, KT16 9DL
Sunday 28th August 2011
12-1.30pm Juniors cricket match
2-4pm Seniors 18th Century re-enactment match
Activities & coaching by Surrey County Cricket Club
Refreshments available Free admission

For more information visit www.chertseymuseum.org.uk

Chertsey Museum announces the publication of Fashion in Focus 1600-2009 by Grace Evans. This new book celebrates the exquisite Olive Matthews Collection of fashionable dress, which is housed at Chertsey Museum.

The book offers, with its fine photography by John Chase, the first rounded view of the collection's many strengths. The book is available from the Museum shop at £11.99, plus postage and packing.

SURREY Herald reporter Carl Gavaghan had the tables turned on him as he faced a grilling.

St Anne's Primary School in Chertsey was holding a media day at the school where its Year 5 pupils had a go at producing their own newspaper front page

AN exhibition featuring work from one of the region's most celebrated artists alongside one of his most promising amateurs is set to take Chertsey by storm next month.

More than 40 paintings by Edwin Cripps, from Bedfont, near Stanwell, and Jane Hitch, from Ashford, will do on display in the Windsor Street Gallery, from Saturday, October 30.

They will remain in the gallery until Saturday, November 6, and Mr Cripps - the self-titled Artist Of The Absurd - said there was a very special reason behind the exhibition.

He said: "I met Jane at Ashford Art Club and her talent is prodigious.

THOUSANDS of people turned out to enjoy the glorious sunshine and funfair delights of one of Chertsey's biggest annual community events - the Black Cherry Fair.

The event, held on Abbey Fields, is now in its 564th year and is currently organised by the Rotary Club of Chertsey.

This year's event kicked off on Thursday, July 8, with the opening of the funfair and continued the following evening with a music show, live on the Abbey Field site.

But it was this morning (Saturday, July 10) that the town really got together for the big showcase, the day of the fair.