Page 22 • The HERALD • 9th March 2023 v SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE HERALD v FLAT ROOFING SPECIALISTS All Roof Repairs Tel: 023 8184 5632 Mobile: 07880 508415 Email: steve@braithwaiteroo ng.co.uk THE FLAT ROOF SPECIALIST ABOUT US Our roofers are the best in the business and are ready to give your roof a full and completely FREE inspection • Interior and exterior painting and decorating • Gutter cleaning and repairs • Plumbing and tiling • Carpentry • Wooden flooring installation • Sheds and fences • Fully insured Professional • Honest • Reliable GRAHAM PARKES OBITUARY Graham Parkes, Historian and Author of the Waterside Area sadly passed away on 14th January. He will be remembered for his participation in village life, for his knowledge of local history, his time as a Parish and District Councillor, School Governor, his chairmanship of the H&D Twinning Association, Hythe and District Historians, Waterside Arts, Waterside Heritage and the Hythe and Dibden Community Association. He was born on the 24th September 1945 at the ‘Firs Maternity Hospital’ in Nottingham, the second son of John, Managing Director of a Manufacturing company and his wife Doris, eight years a er the birth of David. Despite rationing in this period (not to end until 1954), he soon grew too tall for the short trousers that he and the other school children were expected to wear, to look sensible on him. He was educated at Nottingham High School; was when he was looking for somewhere live in the Dibden Purlieu area, he drove along Mullins Lane when you could drive from one end to the other and was shocked by its condition, not realising a less dramatic route was available. He joined the Hythe and Dibden Community Association and became part of their steering committee on the planning for the proposed Community Centre under the direction of its Chairman Stan Wade. Some temporary buildings were eventually kindly given by Esso Petroleum. Twenty years later he repeated the act only this time with a custom built centre. At the same time he was busy with the newly opened Heritage centre at the former Hythe railway station. He took early retirement from the Survey, but did not slow down, becoming manager of the Lime Kiln Lane mobile home estate. en under the Waterside Heritage banner he initially, with Clare Murley, began writing a series of four books on the history of the Parishes of the Waterside. Fawley was the rst then, by himself, the historical centre of Hythe and was in the process of writing the Dibden along with Dibden Purlieu one, when he sadly passed away. His drive and energy in the furthering of knowledge of the Waterside area will be greatly missed. He is survived by Wife Yvonne his children and grandchildren. geography was one of his favourite subjects, useful given his chosen career path. He was brie y a Scout then joined the “combined cadet force”, gaining his ‘Marksman’s badge’. His father died when Graham was still at school, so although he passed his ‘O’ levels, except physics, had to leave because the family lacked the nances for him to continue. A er brie y working for a rm of architects, he joined the Ordnance Survey in 1964. His early career involved travelling across the country ‘sighting’ landmarks including cathedrals, one he well remembered being Lincoln. He was at one time an avid campanologist (bell ringer). In 1967 he met and married Yvonne, daughter of a local publican. ey had ve children: Iain, Martin, Annette, Malcom and Neil. In 1976 the family moved down to Hythe when Graham gained a job promotion with the Ordnance Survey at their Southampton headquarters. ey arrived on the 14th February and rst stayed at the Westcli Hall Hotel, where the older boys were caught playing cowboys and Indians in the corridors. One of his earliest memories Graham Parkes Interested in Genealogy and Family History? A small group of enthusiastic people meet at Soul Café, North Road, Dibden Purlieu at 7.30pm on the first Tuesday of each month (excluding the month of August). If you’ve never done it, it’s an opportunity to meet together with others and discover what wonderful resources are now available to enable you to trace your family. is workshop/self help group is open to novices and experienced family historians alike. Contact Colin: 07754 668611 – colinjanhayter@gmail. com or just go along. ey welcome new members. Waterside Woodcarvers Waterside Woodcarvers holds fortnightly carving workshops in the woodwork room at Noadswood School, during term time, and quarterly socials at St Andrew’s in Dibden Purlieu. Next workshops take place on Thursday 9th and 23rd March, 6pm to 8pm. For more information about this friendly and supportive local club, talk to members at the exhibition, visit the website: www.watersidewoodcarvers.co.uk or phone the chair Di Smith on 023 8084 5787.
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