The Crier Archives 2000-2023
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31 MARCH 2024 - COOKHAM BRIDGE CLOSED AGAIN
1 April The bridge is now open 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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| SUTTON ROAD, COOKHAM |
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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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