The Great Long Lane Floods

As many residents know, Long Lane regularly floods all the way across the section that joins the M25 roundabout as you head south.  We’ve reported it to Herts Highways, many times.  Here’s their latest reply.  Please note: The flood is shallow, and it’s...

Foam in the River Chess

Foam in the River Chess earlier this month is likely to have been caused by rogue fly tipping, according to Chair of the River Chess Association Paul Jennings. The incident, which arose downstream from the Chesham Sewage Treatment Works, is being investigated by...

Mission EmployAble – Meet Leo

If you visit Mission EmployAble’s Café on the Common on Saturdays, chances are you will be met with a beaming smile by Leo who ‘does the door’, takes orders and payments and helps in the kitchen.  Twenty-one year old Leo was one of the first batch of young...

Re23 ‘Waste Not Want Not’ Eco Fashion Challenge

This is a community initiative in association with Chorleywood Magazine & Watford Recycling & Arts Project (WRAP) that aims to inform & inspire children about the waste generated in the textiles industry and how they can make a difference. For Ages 8-16:...

A taste of classical music at lunchtime

Year 6 pupils at The Russell School will have front-row seats at a concert that will feature some of the country’s most talented teenage musicians on Wednesday, March 1. The lunchtime recital in Rickmansworth is being given by students at the Purcell School, Bushey,...

Chorleywood Twinning Association

Calling all Francophiles and French speakers …  … join Chorleywood Twinning Association (CTA) – a thriving organisation in Chorleywood just for you!  Last December CTA visited Dardilly (twin town just outside Lyon), and in October the French folk...

Chorleywood Choral Society – Fauré Requiem

Saturday March 25th, 7pm at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth WD3 1JB Fauré Requiem. The composer’s gloriously serene masterpiece will be performed with soloists Tom Isherwood, Baritone and Mia Prideaux, Soprano. Companion pieces by Pergolesi, Cecilia McDowall and Fauré....

Chorleywood Orchestra Spring Concert

Saturday 25th March, 7pm at St Andrew’s Church, Quickley Lane. Programme: Beethoven 7th Symphony, Mozart Don Giovanni Overture, Weber Concertino for Horn with soloist Henry Wright. An uplifting Spring programme including Beethoven’s optimistic 7th Symphony – the...

Rare Duck on nearby Stocker’s Lake

A rare and attractive duck, a Smew, is currently attracting visitors to nearby Stocker’s Lake. At time of writing (February 21st) the bird has been seen every day for the last three weeks. (Picture Drake Smew at Stocker’s Lake, December 2022) The Smew is a small,...
1972 Spring (008) Newsletter

1972 Spring (008) Newsletter

Contents Tree Preservation You may care to know Council for Nature Community Arts Centre Chiltern Society Council Meetings That Motorway The Country Code Bus Services The Gas Man Cometh Dogs on the Highway The Council Chamber What the Papers Say Crime Prevention Road...