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16 July 2024 - SWAN UPPING TIME AGAIN (updated 18 July 2024)
The Swan Uppers were in Cookham today, marking the swans on the annual Swan Upping.
5 July 2024 - THERESA MAY NOMINATED FOR A PEERAGE
Former prime minister Theresa May will sit in the House of Lords having been nominated for a peerage. She will enter the House of Lords after she was given a peerage in the dissolution honours list.
Dissolution life peerages are awarded by the King after the dissolution of Parliament before a General Election, with nominations often made by major parties for MPs who are standing down.
Theresa May announced in March that she would not be standing again in Maidenhead after 27 years as the Conservative MP for the constituency.
28 June 2024 - ACCIDENT ON M40 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
28 June 2024 - CAROLYN DELANEY TO TALK AT THE MEDIA HUB
- From Sarah Parfitt - Cookham Media Hub
- I hope that you have been enjoying the sunshine moments over the last few weeks. I have had a really busy year on the work and family front. One of the highlights was producing a programme for the BBC World Service from the Northern Ireland Science Festival. It was a global look at the menopause: https://www.bbc.
co.uk/programmes /w3ct5l4l - A big thank you to everyone, who attended our last Media Hub earlier this year with Ross Kemp and Stephanie Peters. Adrian Adams and I were delighted to present Stephanie and the Thames Hospice team with a cheque for £500.
- I am also really pleased to let you know that we will be having one more Media Hub before the summer holidays. Carolyn Mayling will be sharing her very moving personal story with Marlow FM presenter Carla Delaney. When Carolyn was teaching at Redroofs School for the Performing Arts, her 11 year old daughter Rosie developed vasculitis, a rare auto immune disease. After six traumatic months in hospital, Rosie tragically died and Carolyn set up the charity "Rosie's Rainbow Fund" in her memory.
- Carolyn will be talking about how she and her family learned to live with this unimaginable loss and why at the age of 54, using a donor egg and IVF, she decided to have another child. Since then, Carolyn's life has continued to be challenging - she has been through a divorce, breast cancer, and more, but despite everything, to quote the title of her book, she believes that "The Future is Rosie".
- After Carolyn's interview, we will be having a fun-filled networking session and this will be led by Cathy Evans from Inkspot Publishing.
- Tickets for this event are only available on Eventbrite: https://www.even
tbrite.co.uk/e/o ur-summer-media- hub-2024-tickets -935567235787?af f=oddtdtcreator - The Media Hub is celebrating its 11th birthday this summer. Its members include print journalists, producers, directors, writers, bloggers, actors, photographers, media trainers and consultants. Previous guest speakers have included Theresa May, Princess Esméralda of Belgium, John Altman, Adrian Moorhouse, Dotun Adebayo and the late Tim Brooke-Taylor.
- We would like to thank everyone who has made our next event possible - the Bel & The Dragon, Carillion Communications, Inkspot Publishing, Mohammad Sabahi, Adrian Adams, Rachel Sellman and of course, Carolyn, Carla and Cathy.
- We look forward to hopefully seeing on you the 10th. July.
24 June 2024 - NEW PLANNING APPLICATION FOR STRANDE PARK
This is the revised planning application notice pinned to the Shanly Strande Park land which may be of interest.
20 June 2024 - SUMMER HAS COME TO COOKHAM
17 June 2024 - HAS SUMMER COME TO COOKHAM?
10 June 2024 - FRIENDS OF COOKHAM ABBEY MULTI-FAITH ENGAGEMENT SESSION
A multi faith engagement session was held by the Friends of Cookham Abbey at Salt Hill VR in Slough on 1 June 2024 where people were encouraged to come and learn more about the deep-historical association of ritual and religious sites in the area of the Thames.
The University of Reading excavation and Field School return to Paddock Field on Monday 5 August, and will run for four weeks ending on 31 August. Friends of Cookham Abbey will be putting on tours led by a senior archaeologist.
6 June 2024 - COOKHAM REMEMBERS D-DAY 80 YEARS ON
The Cookham church bells rang at 6.30pm as a remembrance of 80 years since D-Day. Adam of Devine Flowers had decorated the War Memorial in Remembrance.
16 May 2024 - MANDY BRAR FROM COOKHAM APPOINTED DEPUTY MAYOR
Councillor Simon Bond has been elected as Mayor of the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead for the 2024/25 civic year, with Councillor Mandy Brar from Cookham as Deputy Mayor.
14 May 2024 - THE SCULPTURE GARDEN
12 May 2024 - ALL THINGS INDIAN
As part of the Cookham Festival there was an Indian themed afternoon on Sunday 12 with Mandy Brar & friends, which took place at the Cookham Dean Village Hall. There was Indian food, dancing and much more!
11 May 2024 - THE AURORA BOREALIS ABOVE COOKHAM
The aurora borealis came to the South East Friday night. It seems that there is great activity on the sun! The photo shows the aurora over Marlow Bridge.
Updated 8 May 2024 - THE COOKHAM FESTIVAL IN FULL SWING
5 May 2024 - WHITE OAK SOON TO RE-OPEN
31 MARCH 2024 - COOKHAM BRIDGE CLOSED AGAIN
26 MARCH 2024 - SUMMER EXHIBITION AT THE STANLEY SPENCER GALLERY
The exhibition coincides with the publication of Gilbert Spencer. The Life and Work of a Very English Artist (Yale, edited by Paul Gough with contributions by Sacha Llewellyn and Amanda Bradley Petitgas).
9 MARCH 2024 - DEFIBRILLATOR AT COOKHAM STATION
A defibrillator has been installed a Cookham railway station.
2 MARCH 2024 - WHAT ARE THEY DOING AGAIN BY COOKHAM STATION??
It looks like they are digging the bollards by the station up again!!
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29 FEBRUARY 2024 - WHAT ARE THEY DOING BY COOKHAM STATION?
Work has been going ahead by Cookham Station with new bike racks and now some strange extensions seem to be appearing along the road. The Age Concern shop has a raised block outside. They want to know how can Cookham residents do deliveries to them with their recycled product? Further up by the station a sort of pavement area has been created with dome metal bollard haphazardly built into the tarmac. It looks like the bollards may have been placed in the wrong place as they are currently a danger to anyone who may have vision impairment and has not stopped parking judging by the car parked in the area today. The work has reduced the number of much needed parking spaces in the area and does not seem to have done anything to improve the area for anyone. People are asking what is the aim of what is being done and it is an accident waiting to happen.
26 FEBRUARY 2024 - FLOODS AGAIN
Just when Cookham thought the floods had gone, the Moor is flooded again and is again closed to vehicles. So far the Causeway is not yet open for vehicles as Sutton Road is still open.
21 FEBRUARY 2024 - WHAT’S ABOUT A WALK - MARSH MEADOW
Eighteen members joined Brian Clews to explore our local meadow on our first walk for the year on 20 February 2024. Thanks to the Chartered Institute of Marketing, our starting place was their car park and we were soon on The Moor, peering at our seeding efforts of last autumn, wondering if there were any still in place after the recent floods. Indeed, we then found ourselves on a squelchy meadow which was still some 50% under water! But that enabled us to study the various plumages of swimming Black-headed Gulls, some of which were almost into full breeding plumage (of brown not black heads!). A skein of about 40 very vocal Greylag Geese passed overhead as we surveyed the Marsh Meadow pond, still very much over-filled with water and with the swan nesting raft cast unceremoniously into the reeds by the fast moving flood waters of last month. We looked carefully at some of the fallen tree branches for any signs of Willow Emerald Damselfly eggs but without success. The Ditch was also very high in water level and with much of the vegetation scoured away, creating concern as to whether or not our precious Water Voles had managed to stay somewhere in the area. But a keen-eyed member noticed some holes in the bank which may well indeed affirm their continued presence. We also found a single empty whirl shell which we guessed belonged to a Great Pond Sail, which was confirmed with a natty App wielded by one of our party. Nearby was an empty Five-banded Cirnuella snail shell, but better still were some occupied miniature Balea wall snails busily shinning up the railway bridge brickwork. Beyond the bridge, on the Cockmarsh side, we were welcomed by strange squeaking noises from the wetland patch there. Whatever it was soon spotted us and went quiet, but suddenly realising it was the call of a Water Rail, I managed to imitate it enough for it to reply once again. We do get overwintering Water Rails in the vicinity so it was most likely a visitor rather than a resident bird. Back on the Meadow side of the bridge we were entertained by a gentle murmuration of about a dozen redwings hidden somewhere in the hedges opposite, sounding a little like a Starling roost, but more musical. Nearby a pair of Jackdaws had clearly put a down-payment on a hole in an Oak tree for the season. Some 25 species of birds and a few wet feet later, we were back at our starting point. Brian Clews  |
16 FEBRUARY 2024 - NEW BIKE RACKS FOR COOKHAM STATION
It seems Cookham station is having new bike racks installed. We already have some, but the new ones look much stronger and tougher!
THE OLD BIKE RACKS
12 FEBRUARY 2024 - IT IS RAINING AGAIN
The Moor and Quarry Wood look a bit damp again after the January floods.
THE MOOR
12 JANUARY 2024 - THE FOURTH EMERGENCY SERVICE
The Moor and Quarry Wood look a bit damp again after the January floods.
, the Cookham pharmacist, has been celebrated by the Cookham community for being the ‘fourth emergency service’ in the village for 15 years. More than 100 people attended a special anniversary event for Neelm Kaur Saini who has managed Cookham Pharmacy in Cookham Rise since January 2008.
The Old Butcher’s Wine Cellar hosted the guests on Saturday and the village generously presented Neelm with flowers, champagne and gift vouchers, as a show of their gratitude for her service.
8 JANUARY 2024 - A BIT WET IN COOKHAM (updated)
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| 8 January 2024 with thanks to Viktoria Evans |
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2 JANUARY 2024 - TREE FALLS ON CAR IN SUTTON ROAD
A tree came down on a car on Sutton Lane, Cookham on Tuesday afternoon. The lady driver suffered minor injuries.
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