Hambledon’s 6th professional Art Fair opens today at 10am.
Everything is set up and ready to go – beautiful art woks are filling the hall and there is already a fantastic atmosphere of excitement and community. We’re open from 10am to 5pm today and 10am to 4pm tomorrow. Come along for the chance to buy an original art work or simply enjoy the fair, have a coffee and a piece of homemade cake. Admission £2 with under 16s free.
Admission charges and 10% of art sales go to the Village Hall fund. Half of the cafe money goes to Macmillan Cancer Support and half to the Village Hall Fund.
A BBC feature about how villages in the South are managing speeding traffic, the traffic calming measures they use and whether these differ from those practices used in city centres is expected to be broadcast on the BBC South News programme on Thursday 1st October and Friday 2nd.
The feature briefly explains how a village speed watch group operates and explores the risks from, and possible consequences to, drivers who speed through villages. The programme asks whether local communities should be able to decide on their speed limits, a suggestion made and being pursued by Danny Chambers the MP for Winchester amongst others.
In researching for the article, BBC South journalist Frankie Peck contacted the Hambledon Community Speed Watch team to ask if we would be willing to take part. We were delighted to do so. On a recent lovely sunny morning, Frankie and her camera man Peter spent a couple of hours with the team outside the Village Hall watching and filming one of our sessions.
The August edition is now available on the website alongside previous back issues. The September printed edition will be delivered to subscribers in a short while.
Hambledon Projectionist’s Choice is Woodstock – the movie. Join us for the screening at the Village Hall. We will stock the fridges of drinks. This is a long film so there will be two intervals. Doors open at 6.30pm and the film starts at 7pm. Certificate 15
Cala Homes currently building 200 homes at “Enton Meadows” (not meadows, not in Enton) have scheduled a closure of Station Lane in Milford. This is for electricity and gas roadworks. It will be traffic lights all day and then at 6pm closure til 5 am. The official diversion booked and agreed with Surrey CC is via Hambledon. This will divert vehicles that normally use Station Lane to the A281 and through Malthouse Lane and Hydestile Crossroads. This will include HGVs (despite the 7.5t restriction on all roads) and the 25 or more artics that deliver produce to the Tuesley Farm fruit packing/distribution hub. Tuesley Farm has HGVs movements upto 10pm routinely.
The July edition is now available on the website alongside previous back issues. The August printed edition will be delivered to subscribers in a short while.
The Village Hall committee have decided to cancel their advertised screening of the World Cup Final at the Village Hall. After Argentina’s semi-final defeat of England last night it was felt there was little enthusiasm in the village to congregate to watch the final. The committee will consider running a similar event and have put it in the diary for June 2030
The Mikron Theatre return to Hambledon with a new production. Support independent theatre and your village hall and book your tickets soon. They are now on sale from Mikron’s the e-ticket site below.
Hambledon is taking part in the annual Open Studios Event this year. Across Surrey there are over 140 studios opening their doors for the final weekend – 20th and 21st.
Spread across the whole county the Studios are grouped into Trails to follow. In the South group there are trails covering the Surrey Sussex Borders. If you pop into the Number 15 Gallery in the Coalyard on Hambledon Road you can pick up a brochure and plan your visits – visit the SAOS website to see the artists, locations and opening times. At Number 15, Julia Osborne now has price reductions on original paintings.
The Mikron Theatre return to Hambledon with a new production. Support independent theatre and your village hall and book your tickets soon. They are now on sale from Mikron’s the e-ticket site below.
Get ready for a hilarious and heartwarming journey to the Top of the Wold!
Hop aboard the most charmingly quirky mobile library you’ll ever encounter and dive into chapters that teem with the lives of then and now. This brand-new play, bursting with original songs, invites you to join the East Riding Mobile Library in a celebration of community, culture, caravans, and peas.
Via Bempton, Bridlington, Hornsea and Howden, we explore a region barely noticed by the nation it feeds, eroded by the pounding North Sea, can a mobile library – with its complex web of rural stops (and somewhat erratic engine) – pull together the Riding’s finest yarns?
From the rolling Wolds to the wild North Sea, discover a place where connection to the land is ingrained, culture is as organic as its produce, and the sea reminds us that we stand on the cliff-edge of a much bigger story.
This laugh-out-loud quest through a patchwork of culture and community celebrates the forgotten, the resilient, and the wonderfully eccentric.
If the story of a county is written in a book, the library is the spine that shows you where to look.
Jazz Night is nearly here! Limited tickets still available. Enjoy a fun, family-friendly evening with food, bars, and live music from Junction 4 Big Band and MOTET. Come and hit the dance floor!
