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VE Day Street Party – 5th May, 2025
Even with a little less sunshine than perhaps we’d all been hoping for, the STAR street party to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day was a roaring success with well over 200 people attending throughout the day.
The tables were groaning with a fabulous selection of food and drink contributed by people from across our neighbourhood, we had 1940s tunes playing out across the street (including a live violin recital from our local musical maestro Orpheus!), and enough games, face paint and pavement chalks to keep even the most active of youngsters occupied while the adults tucked in and chatted all afternoon!
Here are a selection of photos from the day, reproduced from the STAR WhatsApp Community group.
Local resident Peter Lomas also created a mini-newspaper with stories from the neighbourhood harking back to events taking place in our area during the war, including on the original VE Day in 1945.
You can download a copy here:
We’d like to thank everyone who came along and helped make it such a lovely day in which our whole community came together to contribute food, drink, gazebos, games for the kids, music, and much more – with special thanks going out to all of you who helped with planning, setting up and (not least!) packing everything away at the end of the day too.
There were (of course) a few things left behind at the end, so if you are missing a particular plate, piece of tupperware, or that vital plastic component of a much-loved kids game, please do get in touch at info@starchiswick.com and we can try and reunite you with anything that may have gone astray.
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STAR Quiz Night – March 2025
Our very first STAR social event of the year took place on March 1st in the Scout Hut on Rugby Road, with a “sold-out” attendance of over 60 keen quizzers (and even keener socializers!) taking part across the evening.
A great set of questions from our Quizmaster Nick kept everyone on their toes throughout the evening – including a couple of Chiswick-specific rounds.
See if you can spot these Chiswick locations and Chiswick connections in these images from one of our picture rounds !
Everyone we managed to speak to at the event really enjoyed the whole evening, and especially the opportunity to meet a few more of our neighbours – underlining yet again what a vibrant and friendly community we have here in the 10 roads of the STAR catchment area.
We’ll certainly be planning another evening of quizzing later in the year – so stay tuned!