Herald - Issue 424

Page 10 • The HERALD • 2nd June 2022 v F @ heraldpublishing v Acorn Building Contracts Ltd u Reliable, local builders offering affordable, quality workmanship u Our employees are fully qualified and fully insured u All aspects of building undertaken including extensions, structural alterations, roofing, ground works, kitchens, bathrooms, carpentry and plastering u Drawings arranged u Insurance work undertaken u Local Authority Approved Contractor For free quotations and friendly advice please call Office: 023 8024 3336 Mobile: 07786 656865 Email: acornbuilding@gmail.com or visit our website: www.acorn-builders.co.uk You will not be disappointed A.M.H. Handyman Services Internal & External Painting All aspects of DIY Work • Flat Pack Assembly Power Washing: Driveways, Patios, Paths & Decking Gutter, Fascia Boards & Window Cleaning (Bungalows only) Call or email Andy for a free estimate Tel: 07961 443623 handyandyharding@gmail.com Local and Reliable FREE ESTIMATES Call Richard on 07554 421544 or 023 8178 8299 PEST CONTROL Domestic, Commercial & Agricultural • WASPS • MOLES • RABBITS • RATS • BEES • MICE • SQUIRRELS • PIGEONS • INSECTS Local Friendly Family Run Business Fully Trained & Insured Send your local news to The Editor, The Herald, 2 High Street, Hythe SO45 6AH D-Day Lepe Heritage Exhibition at Lyndhurst e D-Day Lepe Heritage Group are delighted to announce that e New Forest Heritage Centre in Lyndhurst will be hosting their FULL exhibition from the 11th June - 3rd July 2022 . Free to enter, the Exhibition will feature a detailed documented focussed look, supported by various models and artefacts, at the contribution made by Lepe and the surrounding area of the New Forest. ese collectively became bases for the marshalling and embarkation points for thousands of troops and equipment all destined to play their part in the largest seaborne invasion in history. Code named ‘Operation Neptune’ and its part in ‘Operation Overlord,’ the code name for the invasion of Normandy on D-Day 6th June 1944. Lepe Beach and Stanswood Bay feature specially constructed hardened beach areas (remains still visible today) Code name Q and Q2 Hards, over Stanswood Bay was the location of the construction and launching of 6 Type B2 concrete caissons (Code name Phoenix). ese were to be used, along with 200 others, to form the outer breakwaters for the Mulberry Harbours. e Exhibition includes an excellent scale model of a caisson. e rst fuel Pipeline Under e Ocean (PLUTO) ran from Stanswood Bay to the Isle of Wight en- route to Normandy and its position is clearly visible when standing on the beach. ere will be a particularly exciting presentation of a generally unpublicised and unavailable Combined Operation Study Report of the British Force ‘G’. is was produced between 2nd and 14th October 1944 prior to any Regimental reports being available. A centre piece feature is a carefully observed and beautifully cra ed 7 . long 1:50 scale model of a Landing Ship Tank, LST-3015, HMS Dieppe. To fully appreciate the Exhibition, it may help to visit their website: ddaylepe.org.uk which highly specialised ‘secret equipments’, including Duplex Drive Tanks, Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers etc. were embarked from their adjacent Marshalling Camp B9, onto Landing Cra Tanks. e ‘Dolphins’ which supported walkways for the troops to embark are still visible today and are probably the only remaining ones in the UK. Celebrating £1,000,000 raised for Cancer Research Romsey and Wellow Friends of Cancer Research UK are celebrating a er going over the £1,000,000 milestone raised for research into Cancer since they started over 45 years ago! Formed in 1977 by a group of 25 young mums and housewives to raise money for the Imperial Cancer Fund (ICRF) – now Cancer Research UK, the Romsey and Wellow Friends of Cancer Research UK still run several fundraisers a year. e group started a er one of the founding members, Pam Cotton, contacted the Imperial Cancer Research Fund a er seeing an advert from the charity asking for help to raise vital funds, in their rst year the group raised around £1,500 and over the next 20 years, £131,000 was raised through summer fetes, barn dances, co ee mornings and Christmas Fayres. In 2002 the ICRF merged with Cancer Research Campaign to form Cancer Research UK and the ladies have continued fundraising to support the charity ever since. Despite the recent pandemic the group have now reached a total of over £1,000,000 raised and the young mums and housewives who started the group are now grandmothers and retirees and continue their amazing work. e ladies would like to express how grateful they are for the support they have had from the local community. Keep an eye out in the Herald for details of their future fundraisers or visit their Facebook page: facebook.com/ RomseyandWellowCRUK