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31/05/2026

Another park action day carried off with aplomb and we made sure to work in the shade to ensure the sun didn’t beat our determined efforts.

The wonderful under-canopy walkway of the three stunning specimen Fagus slyvatica Pendula Trees with the cascading weeping branch habit had long been in need of some loving attention. Its ground level branches that stoop low to kiss and caress the grass below, had become an entangled mess of brambles and wilderness as well as an area that the regular maintenance visits of the park mowers fail to reach to keep decent.

Step in six regular Park Friends volunteers and some Duke of Edinburgh Yourspace teenagers and three hours of maintenance in the blissful shade of those trees has transformed the walk through it.

It was another successful day, and we are all delighted with the end product. Some collected up tree branches and windfall, and some pruned back ones were then taken an weaved into the deadheadging around the new Perretts Field wildlife Pond project which is another great success, and yesterday although the recent heatwave has slightly diminished the current water level, there were signs of so much wildlife present.
Frogs, newts, water boatmen, great diving beetles, a toad is just some of the things we were delighted to spot and encounter.
As we walked away, the sight of those three Weeping Beech trees was something magnificent that we are so very lucky to have, and as views go in Seear’s Park, that is something to truly behold!

27/05/2026

Weekend activity at Seears Park
Sunday 3pm Beginners guide to Foraging
Saturday 10.30 Community Park Action day

This Sunday 3pm why not come out, try something new and join a guided Foraging walk with our keen forager and Friends member Helen?

Great for those who enjoy time outdoors or going for walks, or for those wanting to enrich their own experience of engaging with nature generally.

No tools necessary but sensible or sturdy footwear recommended.
The walk starts from the gates of Yourspace.sutton and lasts an hour.

If you can’t wait until then, why not engage with the wider friends groups and other local community volunteers and join us in the Park Action Day which takes place this Saturday from 10.30?

Among the tasks we need help with is watering in the still young fruit trees, pruning branches overhanging walkways, general tidying up areas where needed, litter picking and collecting up fallen deadwood and branches to use as a natural barrier around the new pond project.

We welcome everyone new and it’s always a massive help with morale when anyone joins in with our efforts.

Hope we see you there

24/05/2026

The current heatwave has revealed a ghost of yesteryear with a visible blast from the past.
An outline has appeared in the grass that needed some investigating to explain exactly what we can currently see, and so I did a little digging.

I have used the aerial photos of historic Britain taken in 1945 to back up the claim, but what you see here is the old footprint of the old footpath that used to go all around the old Pavillion of the once toilet shelter that used to exist in Seear’s Park.
The last photo shows the view back towards the toilet block structure from my the gates of Yourspace aka Seears Park Nursery taken in the early eighties not too long before the structure was eventually taken down, some fifty or so years after the toilet block was created.
It was taken down because it had started to attract unsavoury late night activity even perhaps anti social behaviour, and it was another decline in the park’s significant local status.

The nearby park memorial drinking fountain had become derelict by the early 1950s losing both its top and its bronze plaque that set out the gift of the park space to the people of Cheam in perpetuity by the Seears.

Whilst the park was laid out and bequeathed in the 1912 will of John Seear, it was the 1929 Will of his wife in which she left money for the drinking fountain, the memorial plaque, and the toilet block to be added to complete her husband’s gift and legacy.
Unfortunately none of those things now remain except for the ghosts of yesteryear, in the ruins of the drinking fountain, and the derelict Quarry Park Cottage, and now of course the blast from the past of the outline of where the pathway and toilet block once existed, and for that we have to thank the recent drought and current heatwave for the reminder.

Yet everything is not yet lost! The good news is that Yourspace.sutton are on a mission to save the derelict Quarry Cottage as a well-being hub and adding it to the community garden, and the Friends group are working to improve the park’s fortunes and revive some of its original aspirations and purpose.
Check out the photos then go to the park and check out the now temporarily visible markings before they disappear..

19/05/2026

Yesterday we finally got to unveil and raise our Green Flag; the latest addition to Sutton’s award winning green spaces.

It felt rather special and I think has added some significant prestige to the park and the immediate locality and I hope that everyone local all will feel the same way about it.

So so happy!

06/05/2026

Yay Seears Park has had its new flagpole installed just yesterday and we are delighted.
We are so excited about the prospect of flying our Green Flag and that the green space which was formally set out as park and left to the parish of Cheam, has been awarded such status.
John Seear would surely be delighted,

30/04/2026

How exciting is this?

Have you noticed the upgrades going on around Seears Park & Perretts Field?
The blossoming relationship between us as the Park friends group and the parks department continues to go from strength to strength, and as our obvious impact and efforts grows, the borough supports our efforts with efforts of their own.

You might have seen four new Friends notice boards, and even new bird and fox proof park dustbins too, and today the start of the new base for the park flagpole has been installed, with the pole to come immediately after.

That means our prestigious Green Flag award will be flying soon over the park and the combined community efforts.

Game recognises game!

Thank you LB Sutton and the Parks Team. Hope you are all equally proud of the difference collectively we’re all making…

16/04/2026

The project to recreate a wildlife pond in Perretts Field moved into overdrive recently with two full on action days.
The first to receive the delivery of the coir mats and rolls into which we were to introduce pond planting.
Turns out it all weighed a tonne and the delivery truck could only deliver roadside, and so we had to muscle it all over quite a long way to where we were going to install it.

That part done, two days later at the monthly park action day, members of the community turned out in force to help us plant the pond, attach the coir mats down, reinforce the dead hedging boundary, create a nearby composting bin, and deliver some other maintenance tasks and litter picking duties throughout the park spaces.

A big thank you to Veolia and to LB Sutton for helping us fund this wonderful project, a massive thanks to all of the friends members who have tirelessly helped shape this project, and the biggest thanks of all to all of you who have joined us on the Park Action Days helping us realise this wonderful addition to the park status.

It has so far proved a big hit with the park users generally, and the good news is that it hasn’t taken long for the wildlife to move in.
What a wonderful community coming together effort and end product, and so proud to be a part of it!

15/03/2026

50 years ago in Seears Park right along the ancient footpath that is Love Lane, there were spectacular sights to behold on your route to just about anywhere in Cheam.

Here in these pictures I have captured the exact spot of just one of these magnificent specimens of old English Elm that was obliterated by the Dutch Elms disease epidemic of the 1970s and 80s.

This spot is just a few yards away from the Yourspace.sutton nursery gates, or Seears Park Nursery as it was better known then.

These ancient trees were a prominent feature all around leafy Cheam and its green spaces, and indeed all around the country everyone felt it’s loss.

While the sight of these magnificent specimens were lost, the trees didn’t die completely as many of them sent up suckers from their root systems, and indeed those suckers are still often seen in our native hedgerows, but they never reach any maturity at all. Just as they are starting to mature into something bigger, they are still prone to the same die back disease, and so seeing these ancient English Elm monuments to our parks has been consigned to our past.

However as much as the loss to our landscape is still lamented and grieved, it is perhaps widely unknown that the English Elm as in Ulmus Procera as it is known by its Latin name; well it is not a native at all, but a clone of the Mediterranean species Ulmus Atinian, and believed to have been imported during Roman times some 2000 years ago.

Well all that is now history of course, some from our immediate past and some from an ancient period, but what is better news is that in recent years other varieties of Elm Trees have been introduced that show a good resistance to the Dutch Elms disease.

Last year our friends group planted six such specimens as in Ulmus vada nearby in the adjoining Perretts Field in the hope that the species will have a long future.

I am glad to report that the trees have settled in well over their first year and making optimistic establishing progress, and who knows, perhaps in another 50 years or so, someone will be raving about these early day photos.

Me, I will be looking forward to seeing them grow, just as much as I love seeing the old black and white photos of our once Seears Park ones gracing the footpath along Love Lane with that once imperial dominance in our landscape.

It’s amazing how just about any one spot has so much to say and so much history to appreciate, just that we don’t stand still long enough to take notice.

01/03/2026

Thank you to all the members of the local community who came out and joined the park friends group in making a combined difference.

Look at these fantastic photos of how an area in Perretts field is being transformed by all your collective efforts.
New pathways created, existing ones woodchipped, dead hedging being created and regularly extended not only to create wildlife habitats but also to act as a natural safety barrier while the new natural pond beds in and matures. Talking of the wildlife pond doesn’t it look great?
The work also makes fantastic use of the natural green waste and tree drop that often litters the park scape and enhances the visual experience as well as how locals interact with the space.

A big thank you also to all of you who helped litter pick both Perretts Field and Seears Park, both of which continue to grow and bloom as spaces that the community come together and help manage.
Wonderful efforts all round don’t you think?

27/02/2026

Community Park Action Day tomorrow Saturday 28th Feb from 10.30-12.30ish.

Come out and join the Friends of Seears park and Perretts Field as we carry out some park improvements.

Tasks include gathering fallen branches and deadwood and doing some dead-hedging to act as a barrier to the new pond project.

Help clear unwanted vegetation from encroaching pathways.

Litter Picking

Filling in holes in the grass to avoid trip hazards.

Clearing wild growth from the Quarry Cottage Fenceline and boundary.

Oh and of course just enjoying the view of all our previous efforts such as in the blooms of the daffodils and Tete-a-tetes which right now just look wonderful.

No amount of help considered too little…

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