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Free Standing & Built In Sales Centre Over 300 appliances in stock www.expertdomestics.co.uk Beaulieu Warblers Song Books Palace House at Beaulieu (by kind permission of Lord Montagu) was the venue for e Beaulieu Warblers Summer Concerts. e concerts, entitled ‘Lyrics from Literature’, raised funds to buy books for Beaulieu Village School. e Village School has been ‘home’ for e Warblers since 2010 when a small group of people rst met to sing together for pleasure and the Beaulieu Warblers was established. e two performances were enthusiastically received and included songs from musicals based on works of literature. e concert opened with a selection from Oliver based onOliver Twist byCharlesDickens. Other authors featured in the varied programme included Shakespeare with songs from West Side Story and Kiss me Kate; Roald Dahl (‘When I Grow Up’ from Matilda); Victor Hugo (Les Misérables) and TS Eliot (Macavity and Memory from Cats). e evening was brought to a rousing conclusion with a selection from the musical ‘My Fair Lady’ based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. A highlight of the evening was e Warblers accompanist, Leigh Jerwood, playing an arrangement of ‘Hedwig’s’ eme from Harry Potter. Described as ‘the most endishly di cult arrangement’ the outstanding performance was greeted by a welldeserved standing ovation. e Warblers will soon be starting to prepare their Christmas Concerts to be performed on 7th and 8th December in Palace House, Beaulieu. Proceeds from these concerts will be donated to the Rose Road Association. e Beaulieu Warblers are a friendly, social group open to anyone who has a genuine love of singing, new members are always welcome. For more information about joining e Beaulieu Warblers please email: BeaulieuWarblers@gmail.com The Beaulieu Warblers News fromWaterside Heritage Waterside Heritage will hold its Annual General Meeting at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 4th October in the Hythe and Dibden Community Centre, o Jones Lane. e meeting will be chaired by the President, Lord Montagu and there will be a talk a erwards by Mr Mark Watts entitled Winchester Prison – Past & Present. is is a fascinating presentation and Mr Watts, as a former Prison O cer, gives a talk full of personal experience, interest, humour and pathos. Waterside Heritage has been very fortunate in obtaining the servicesof several enthusiasticvolunteers in the last few months. Our Head Archivist, John Watkins, with the help of some volunteers has made an excellent start to digitising our archives using a new, high-speed scanner. e eventual aim is to make these documents, photographs and maps available to members on a website. However, an organisation like Waterside Heritage with its own Heritage Centre cannot survive without members willing to take on some of the tasks of running the Centre. Our late lamented Chairman, Graham Parkes, seemed to do everything himself – a real labour of love. We have been discovering in the last few months just how much he actually did. e Executive Committee has decided to expand its numbers to try to spread the administrative load across as many people as possible. Our Acting Chairman, Gordon Chambers, would like to relinquish this role so that he can concentrate on writing the history of Dibden and Dibden Purlieu, started by Graham Parkes. We therefore need a replacement Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Treasurer, and Secretary, as well as new roles for a Building Manager, Facilities Manager, ITManager and a Membership Secretary. We have drawn up Terms of Reference for each of these positions and details can be obtained from the current Secretary at mikegibson47@ btinternet.com. It will be di cult to say the least to carry on if volunteers do not come forward. Tadburn Meadows Local Nature Reserve, located in Romsey (SU367214) will be holding a Bat Walk on Friday 25th August from 7.45pm onwards. Meet at the entrance to the reserve at Eight Acres. ey will be holding a Himalayan Balsam Bashing on Saturday 9th September from 10am until 12noon, meet at entrance to the reserve at Eight Acres. Tadburn Meadows Local Nature Reserve is hidden amongst the houses and covers almost 12 acres and provides a home for a variety of Britain’s best loved wildlife and some nationally threatened species. e site boasts a variety of habitats, from a stream more characteristic of the New Forest to wet woodland and grassland. Tadburn Conservation Volunteers are a local group working on Tadburn Meadows Local Nature Reserve, Romsey. Contact: tadburn.meadows@gmail.com Bat Walk at Tadburn Meadows
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