6th August 2026 • The HERALD • Page 27 v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v SP DECORATING Painting & Decorating Specialist Simon Perks Tel: 07889 091420 Email: simonperks@rocketmail.com • Interior & Exteriors • Wallpaper Hanging • Prompt & Reliable Service • Free Quotations & Expert Advice • Fully Insured The next Herald is out on 27th August Covering all aspects of: • Home Improvement • Repairs & Maintenance • Fencing & Landscaping • Plastering - 24 Hour Callout Serving Waterside, Southampton & Surrounding areas Darrell Vallis 07772 496814 Email: vallispropertymaintenance@gmail.com Hythe and Southampton.” ree cheers were given for the Mayor, the directors, and the Queen, and the party adjourned to the Drummond Arms, where Mrs Bowles, the landlady, produced “An excellent luncheon at short notice” before the visitors steamed home suitably refreshed at about four o’clock. e directors’ faith was rewarded almost immediately: on the very day of the opening, they received an o er to lease the pier on terms paying a dividend of about four per cent – although there would be tumultuous times to follow. And the public were not le out - the ceremony done; visitors were invited to take a leisurely walk on the new pier “On payment of the usual toll.” Some things, it seems, never change. Continued from page 26 THE DAY HYTHE PIER OPENED IN 1881 HOT SPOT FOR LITTER Despite the intense heat on a July Saturday morning, a team from Hythe & Waterside Rotary still managed to carry out their planned litter pick in Hythe village centre. Not for the rst time, Jennifer and Rosemarie from Litter Pickers of the New Forest joined the group and although it was necessary to reduce the session down from 2 hours to 1 hour because of the intense heat, the back of a large estate car was lled with bulging black sacks of rubbish. Well done to all those involved and many thanks to members of the public who expressed their gratitude to the litter pickers as they worked. Litter pickers at the end of the session
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