The magazine of the Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents' Association is a professionally produced, glossy publication 48 pages in length that issues quarterly. It contains news of the area and of activities in which the Association is concerned or supports, information about our local community and informative articles and stories relevant to the area and often to local history volunteered by many sources. 'Thames Ditton Today' carries some paid advertising by local businesses to help defray its costs, is delivered to 4000 households in all of Thames Ditton and Weston Green, and its influential adult readership is estimated at over 7,500.
This version of the magazine online broadens readership still further, as downloadable files subject to authors' and residents' Association copyright. There is a waiting list for advertisers - please contact our Advertising manager as below. Advertisers may wish to note that for a very small one-time fee you can have your business listed in our searchable business index.
Interesting job: The magazine has become a publication of record and moreover has contained much material of interest to local historians. We need someone to scan in all back issues, from Spring 1970 to Autumn 2008 inclusive, to pdf format. This will create a searchable online archive for all. The task would immortalise your name locally and attract a modest fee: you might have an IT- literate teenage son or daughter who could do it for a one-time vacation job? Please contact the Editor
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This issue is downloadable/readable entire as a low-resolution pdf file of between 3 and 5 MB. Contents: News from the Residents' Association p7 Are You Married, or....(do you live on The Island)? by Gill Frances and Martin Steel p13 Return of the Phantom Sniper (local history)..... p15 The Tower at Boyle Farm by David Pascoe (local history).... p19 Community - recent charitable and community fun events.... p23 This is Your Life, Eddie May (film and TV actress Eddie May Scandrett née Booth)... p27 Chairman's Report to the AGM p33 Summer Crossword by Michael Jackson p41 Solution to Spring Crossword by Michael Jackson p43 By Hook or Crook (cycle path on Hampton Court Way, by Gus Bainger) p46 Previous issues online (as web pages until Autumn 2008, as whole pdf files from Winter 2008):
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Editor: Keith Evetts
6 Church Walk
Thames Ditton KT7 0NW
0208 398 7320
Advertising Manager: Verity Park
20 Portsmouth Avenue Thames Ditton KT7 ORT
020 8398 5926
email: verity.park@ntlworld.com
Magazine Design: Guy Holman
24 Angel Road, Thames Ditton KT7 0AU
0208398 1770
website: Flying Colours
Distribution: David Youd
6 Riversdale Road Thames Ditton
020 8398 3216
Printers: ImpressPrint
Unit 10,
19 Lyon Road,
Hersham
KT12 3PU
01932 232307
Contributors
Contributors are always welcome. Please send us your news, views, and details of local events for consideration, and proposals for articles you would be prepared to write - preferably by email to the Editor. Letters or extracts from letters may be published or drawn upon; and there is scope for a one-page rant every now and again, couched in civilised and good-humoured terms (and not illegal!). Deadlines are four weeks before the target publication dates of 7 March, 7 June, 14 September and 7 December.
Photographs: amateur and professional photographers are very much encouraged to propose photos, particularly photos suitable for the cover (A5 format at 300 dpi, RGB or CMYK colour, scope for title and footer). Articles submitted should ideally contain a suitable image also - in some circumstances we can send a photographer. Please email images to the Editor. The final cover choice, which may depend on its relevance to contents inside the magazine, theme, or season of the year, is made by our designer Guy Holman from the Editor's selection.
Advertisers
Please give Verity a call to discuss rates for full page, half page and quarter page advertising in the magazine.