During the litter pick, when I went along the perimeter fence of the Common, I saw the following boundary stone:- The initials relate to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke who owned the land in 1885. One of previous Forum Committee Member, Carole Gale, wrote a history of Pyrford Common, which information about Sir Charles Dilke and […]
PNF AGM – MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2022
The Committee has arranged its next AGM for Monday November 28th at the Pyrford Village War Memorial Hall starting at 8pm. The full Agenda will be published, on the PNF website, nearer the time. If you would like to consider becoming a Committee Member, please do get in contact by clicking here IN PARTICULAR: – The current examiner […]
SHEPHERD’S MARKET – 12 November 10:30am to 2pm
The annual Shepherd’s Market is on Saturday 12th November 10:30am to 2pm at the Church of the Good Shepherd. As the Forum is selling its 2023 Wildlife Calendar at the event, why not pop along, see us and take a look at the calendar. To celebrate the variety of local wildlife found in Pyrford, the […]
COOP LOCAL COMMUNITY FUND
Pyrford Forum is delighted to have been selected as one of the local groups being supported by the COOP Local Community Fund. The Forum is most grateful to Cllr Peter Graves who suggested applying and made the application on behalf of the Forum. The Forum would like to convert the piece of community land between […]
PYRFORD COMMON – 2ND LITTER PICK
If you were out on Pyrford Common on Sunday, the 9th of October, you might have seen a number of Pyrford Neighbourhood Forum members masquerading as Woking Council employees. Many residents from all across the borough visit the rural areas of Pyrford at the weekend and this was all part of the Forum’s mission to […]
ROAD CLOSURES
NEWARK LANE OVERNIGHT CLOSURE 7thNOVEMBER – 15th NOVEMBER – Surrey County Council are carrying out refurbishment to the traffic lights at the Wey Canal bridge. As a result, Newark Lane will be closed overnight 7-15 November from 8pm to 6am and there will be two-way traffic lights during the day. OLD WOKING ROAD – Affinity […]
HAVE YOUR SAY – WILDLIFE
A topic raised very recently concerns the impact of traffic on local wildlife. A member reported:- “I was driving back home earlier this afternoon and saw 2 dead juvenile badgers (this year’s cubs) and a fox from last week in the 300m stretch of Upshot Lane between the Pyrford Centre and Pyrford Common Road. There […]
The Old House – October 2022
Rowley Bristow – May 2022
The following picture & article was posted by Surrey History centre on Facebook. With their permission I repeat it in this newsletter. “Here’s a music lesson with a difference! Patients playing instruments in the outdoor ward at Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital in Pyrford in the 1950s. The hospital pioneered research into the treatment of bones […]
WALK ON WILDSIDE – 30 July 2022
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