Page 66 • The HERALD • 8th October 2026 v THE HERALD - Proud to be part of your community v ASK A PROFESSIONAL LJM Bookkeeping Services I provide a range of accounting and business services to individuals, partnerships, charities and small businesses. I am licenced through the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers for the following services. Bookkeeping, Computerised Accounting Software, Final Year End Accounts, Payroll Management, CIS, VAT, Self Assessment Tax for Individuals and Construction Industry Scheme, Statutory Accounts for Small Businesses including Corporation Tax and related submissions, Holiday cover can also be provided for, hourly rates charged. Please contact Lynda McIntyre Email: ljmbookkeepingservices@gmail.com Telephone: 07774 790543 Helen Sparks Mortgages & Financial Services Offering professional advice since 1985 Mortgages Residential Life Time Equity Release Buy to Let – first time landlords Property Portfolios Help to Buy Insurance Life Assurance Critical Illness Income Protection Business Protection YOUR PROPERTY MAY BE REPOSSESSED IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP REPAYMENTS This firm usually charges a fee for mortgage advice. The amount of the fee will depend upon your circumstances and will be discussed and agreed with you at the earliest opportunity. Some forms of buy to let mortgage are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 023 8084 4108 enquiries@helensparks.com Helen Goodall T/A Helen Sparks Mortgages & Financial Services is an appointed representative of PRIMIS Mortgage Network, a trading name of First Complete Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority CALSHOT RNLI WELCOMES NEW LIFEBOAT OPERATIONS MANAGER Calshot RNLI are delighted to welcome Geo Searle as new Lifeboat Operations Manager. Geo was born and raised in Devon, trained as a naval architect at the University of Southampton and has recently retired from a thirty-six-year career in naval shipbuilding. Alongside his work in this area, he also spent thirty years in the Royal Naval Reserve both in Southampton and Portsmouth, serving as a mine warfare o cer, with duties including acting as O cer of the Watch and Navigating O cer. In his spare time Geo enjoys sailing out of Lymington with both a Wayfarer and a Laser dinghy and volunteers next door to Calshot Lifeboat station at the NCI Tower. Of his appointment to the role, he said: “I have long been a supporter of the RNLI, ever since I watched the Sennen Cove lifeboat launch into the Fastnet Race storm in 1979 whilst on a family holiday there. During my naval architecture degree, I did industrial placements with the RNLI design team in Poole for two summers, which was a great experience. I’m delighted to be joining the fantastic team of volunteers at Calshot - the opportunity to be involved in the day to day running of a busy station is something that I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in to!” Geoff Searle beside Calshot’s Atlantic 85 B Class Lifeboat (Credit: RNLI/Justyn Leonard) See Southampton Ensure The East Gate Rises From The Ashes After Over 250 Years! East Gate image, with Jack Wilson, Godfrey Collyer and a member of the ADS Recruitment staff to the left, and the installers from printers ASAP (who also helped sponsor) to the right Visitors to Southampton’s bustling East Street are now greeted by an image of its namesake ‘East Gate’. Installed at the beginning of September, it helps visitors to visualise the layout of the old town walls in this area. At their peak, the Medieval Walls completely encircled the Old Town, covering a distance of some 1 ¼ miles. e East Gate disappeared completely in 1775 – it proved too much of an interruption to movement between the town centre and the suburbs to the east. Jack Wilson, one of the founders of See Southampton, commented: “For many years I thought it a great shame that while three of the medieval City’s main gates were still standing (The Bargate, Westgate and God’s House Gate,) and the South or Watergate at least had remains to be seen, there was no remnant of the East Gate. I thought it would be an interesting idea to install a large picture of the Gate somewhere in East Street. My See Southampton colleague Godfrey Collyer owned an excellent print, but there were lots of complications about keeping the image sharp when it was blown up to window size. Meanwhile, my wife Jan spotted that there was a blank window in a great position, on the corner of East Street and Back-of-the-Walls, which Mike, the owner of ADS Recruitment, has generously allowed us to use. The remnants of old walls which are to be found to the right of the window identify the line of those walls, and the Gate was where they crossed East Street - the site could not be better positioned.” e picture has already received many plaudits, and can be viewed just a short distance from the recently opened Bargate Quarter development.
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