Ashburnham Triangle Association

A local resident captured video footage of a white male checking car doors on Sunday 23 June at approx 01:32 . This information has been forwarded to the police. The description of the individual involved: Hair: Short dark Top: Light long sleeved jacket Bottom: Dark shorts Shoes: White trainers Build: Slim Ethnicity: White Sex: Male Other details: Holding a light or mobile phone in his right hand Theft from car vehicles is on the increase especially within the Triangle. Make sure you are not a victim. Lock your vehicle; close all windows and NEVER leave anything on display.

Former Security Representative and ATA Member David Scales writes: My mother, Diana Rimel, one of the original members and an early collaborator in the formation of the Ashburnham Triangle Association in the mid 1970s, sadly passed away in the QE Hospital on 12th June 2019 aged 81. For much of my early life, I lived with my sister Delia in Ashburnham Place from 1961 – 1981; when my family moved from Bermondsey, where my father had worked as a Stevedore in Surrey Docks, to Greenwich. On moving into this area, my mother helped to set up the ATA along with some other neighbours who lived in Ashburnham Place at this time. The Association soon became a vibrant neighbourhood residents group and mum edited the early editions of the ‘Triangle Telegraph’ as the newsletter was named at that time. I remember my parents churning out the first editions using a Gestetner, a type of duplicating machine and equivalent of the Photocopier of its day, in the basement of our house. We would fastidi...