7th March 2024 • The HERALD • Page 73 v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v VAUXTECH LOCAL GARAGE Tel: 023 8086 9496 Unit 5, New Forest Enterprise Centre, Totton, Southampton SO40 9LA LOCAL GARAGE EST 27 YEARS • Servicing & Repairs • MOT’s (arranged) • Brakes • Clutches • Tyres • Air Conditioning • Collection & Delivery Locally Friendly & Reliable Onsite Café Facilities All Makes & Models A WARM NEW FOREST WELCOME their local communities and we very much look forward to supporting each other with future events and fundraising”. Ian Frame (President of NF Rotary) with Jim Whitehouse (President of H&W Rotary) A very warm welcome was awaiting Hythe & Waterside Rotary members when they accepted an invitation from New Forest Rotary to join them at one of their regular meetings at the Forest Inn, Emery Down. Members of both groups met up for a meal and friendly chat, discussing future projects and how they might work more closely together in the future. Hythe & Waterside Rotary Chairman, Jim Whitehouse, said: “Both clubs do an enormous amount of work in Old Baby Mackerel Tickets on Sale Be prepared to be transported back in time to the early 20th century and across the Atlantic to North America where songs dramatized the smalltown fascination with locomotion, religion and the veneration of whisky and bootleg liquor. In the last four years Old Baby Mackerel have featured regularly on BBC radio including 6 Music with Cerys Matthews, have played Glastonbury Festival twice, sold out venues across the UK, played headline slots at Purbeck and Priddy folk festivals, the Northern Irish, Cornish, Welsh, East Anglian and Swiss Bluegrass festivals, at venues and festivals all over the UK and Ireland as well as Belgium, Austria, Germany, e Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal and ailand. Suitable for all ages, tickets are £10 and available from e Herald o ce or online: www.ticketsource. co.uk/newforestactingup/t-qjxrdgm Refreshments will be available from 7pm provided by Vibrant Forest Brewery. On Sunday 28th April, Old Baby Mackerel quartet will be performing at Jubilee Hall in Fawley presented by Waterside Arts in partnership with Culture in Common and New Forest Acting Up, doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Old Baby Mackerel play high-energy, foot-stomping Bluegrass featuring a dizzying line-up of renowned UK Bluegrass musicians. eir music uses the rhythmic sounds of banjo, guitar, mandolin, ddle and double bass to get knees bouncing and elbows swinging to the virtuosic sound of blistering solos and tasteful harmonies. The Romsey Singers Performing in Boldre Musical Friends is the theme for e Romsey Singers concert on Friday 22nd March, 7pm at St John the Baptist Church, Boldre. e Romsey Singers, directed by Philip Lawson, will sing a selection of music ranging from Byrd and Tallis through to Simon and Garfunkel via Vaughan Williams, Holst, Tippett and Flanders and Swann. Tickets are £15 (under 16’s half price) which includes an interval drink, available from Pilley Community Shop, Romsey Visitor Information Centre, Church Street, Romsey: 01794 512987 or online: www. romseysingers.org National Coastguard Institution at Calshot Tower and Stone Point Hythe and District Ladies Probus’ next meeting is on Friday 22nd March for a talk titled ‘National Coastguard Institution at Calshot Tower and Stone Point’ by Ian Davis. ey are a friendly group of ladies who meet on the last Friday of each month at Dibden Golf Club from 10.30am. e meeting starts with co ee followed by a speaker and then a 2 course meal. If you are interested in joining them please contact Chris Glass: chrisjglass@aol.com or visit: www. probus.org.uk/hythedistrict
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