Page 12 • The HERALD • 2nd April 2026 v EMAIL YOUR NEWS: editor@herald-publishing.co.uk v DECORATING Interior and Exterior Established 1985 07867 528307 mark.blake.decorating@gmail.com FLAT ROOFING SPECIALISTS All Roof Repairs Tel: 023 8184 5632 Mobile: 07880 508415 Email: steve@braithwaiteroo ng.co.uk THE FLAT ROOF SPECIALIST Wet clean or Dry clean • Carpets • Rugs • Upholstery • Cushions • Mattresses • Caravans & Motor Homes Contact Chris for a free estimate and advice. We have full liability insurance 023 8104 0185 07770 792361 clean-u-up@hotmail.com We provide one of the best professional Carpet & Fabric cleaning Systems Crocus Time! ree years ago, Hythe & Waterside (H&W) Rotary and Marchwood Parish Council carried out a joint project along with local school children, to plant crocuses in Marchwood village. It is always a delight when members of the public post a photo on Facebook of the blooms emerging and give a mention to H&W Rotary and their local supporters who planted them. e purple crocuses were planted as part of a campaign to help raise the pro le of Rotary and they symbolise hope in the ght to end polio. H&W Rotary repeated the exercise last year (2025) at St George’s Hall in Calshot where, with the help of Fawley Parish Council ground sta , youths and their leaders, 5,000 crocus corms were planted. Memories of New Forest Romany Gypsies had to stay in compounds and they were no longer allowed to move around the Forest. More than 400 Romany folk lived like that for generations, unable to move to places more suitable for summer and winter. Apart from a few photographs, the only records of that time are in the memories of the children whose families were moved o the compounds in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of those, Heather Cooper, has written the new book ‘Living in a Kenner - My New Forest Romani Gypsy Family’. e book will be launched at the New Forest Heritage Centre on Saturday 11th April, 10.30am – 12.30pm. Everyone is welcome to the launch to meet Heather, Romany Gypsies lived in the New Forest for hundreds of years travelling from place to place to nd farm work, to hawk, tell fortunes and subsist from the land, but in 1926 the authorities decided that the Gypsies Heather’s Granny Dosha, mother Harriet (little girl) and great grandmother Priscilla Wells, around the fire on Shave Green compound, 1932/33 Peter, her husband, and others interested in their story. Look out too for Tony Johnson’s Romany Exhibition in May, in the Boldre War Memorial Hall, Pilley. Two explorer scouts are going on international trips of a lifetime in the summer of 2027. Scott is going to the World Scout Jamboree in Poland and Rowan is travelling across America for a road trip adventure. ey must both fundraise £3,600 to cover the trip expenses. To help with their fundraising together with their parents they are organising a night of horse racing on a big screen on Friday 24th April, 7pm–10.30pm, at St Matthews Church Hall in Netley Marsh. Tickets are £10, including a homemade chilli and jacket potato (dietary requirements can be catered for - instructions of how to notify them are on the tickets) there will be 8 races and the tote will open before each one. Tickets must be purchased in advance from: http://tiny.cc/racenight A licenced bar, snacks and cakes will be available for purchase on the night. Thank you to main sponsor; Forest Edge Mortgages and race sponsors; Footner Ewing Solicitors, Best Buy DIY, Charles Edwardson Commercial Brokers and Netley Marsh Church Choir for their support. If you can’t make the night but still want to support Scott and Rowan, you can name a horse for £5 (and be in for winning a small prize) whether you make it or not the deadline for horses is 9th April via: http://tiny. cc/sponsorhorse Race Night In Netley Marsh
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