Herald - Issue 424

Page 30 • The HERALD • 2nd June 2022 v THE HERALD - YOUR COMMUNITY MAGAZINE v SOLO CARS Available 24 hours, 365 days a year 023 8089 0244 023 8084 1951 FRIENDLY AND RELIABLE • Local and Any Distance • Airport & Cruise Transfers H 8 SEATER MINIBUS NOW AVAILABLE H All major credit cards accepted Estate/Saloon Cars Available H ESTABLISHED SINCE 1992 H TAXIS TAXIS PVCu FASCIAS & GUTTERING CLEANING SERVICE Gutters checked for leaks and repaired Also new installations Driveway, Patio and Decking Cleaning and Restoration Service Very reliable and fully insured Good Rates and Professional Service Special Rates for OAP’s Call us now for a free quote Holbury 07884 112416 TRU-FLOW PLUMBING SERVICES For all your Domestic Plumbing, Tiling, Painting and Decorating Requirements • Fully Insured • Discounts for Senior Citizens Please Contact Andy Tel: 023 8087 0145 • Mobile: 07962 590089 WILLIS DECORATING & JOINERY SERVICES Est Since 1986 Interior & Exterior Painting & Decorating Wallpaper Hanging Hand-painted Kitchens & Spray Finishes Wardrobes, Bookcases, Radiator Covers Call David on 023 8084 9800 or 07946 048261 E: david.willis24@btinternet.com Waterside Heritage are seeking information about the Bowles Shield Society in 1954 and it was used until at least 1982. Carved in oak, possibly by Mr Alfred Bowman, it carries the following inscriptions Top – In Book (clearly a bible) - I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE Banner below - FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FRUIT Bottom - THE CHALLENGE Various winners are listed from 1961 until 1982 and include Mrs A Wrann, Mrs R Rice, Mrs C Ransom, Mrs P Richardson, Mrs E E Hooper, Mrs J Wheeler, Mrs J Purkiss, Mrs C Tapper, Mrs L Hall, Mrs W Richards and Mrs S Bingham. If any one remembers the shield, the Dibden Purlieu and District Produce Society or any of the ladies mentioned could they please contact: graham. parkes@waters ideher i tage .org .uk or leave a note for Graham at the Community Centre in Brinton Lane, Hythe (023 8084 4074). ey would also like to hear from anyone who has any programmes or photographs of previous Horticultural and Cra Shows that they would allow them to copy. Waterside Heritage has recently received for safe keeping a wooden shield trophy from the Dibden Purlieu, Hythe and District Horticultural Society; they would like to know if any one local remembers it. Known as the Bowles Shield it was presented by Mrs I Bowles to the Dibden Purlieu and District Produce The Bowles Shield Chas – A Lifetime Fighting Fire Book Now On Sale! part of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue, involved with a number of di erent projects for the service. He is also a governor with South Central Ambulance Service, a governor of Black eld Junior School and serves on Fawley Parish Council. At the age of seventeen he joined the ranks at Hythe and began a service career that has lasted almost 56 years. He was already a much-decorated re ghter when in 2016 he was awarded an MBE by Her Majesty the Queen at a ceremony at Windsor Castle. During his career that spans six decades, Chas has seen action in numerous high pro le incidents along the Waterside including res in the Fawley re nery, aboard oil tankers at the Fawley jetty and the former Marchwood Power Station. At the age of just 21, he was one of the rst re ghters sent aboard the stricken and still burning oil tanker Paci c Glory o the Isle of Wight. Although he retired from frontline duties in 2018, Chas is still very much a Alan Titheridge’s book “Chas – A Lifetime Fighting Fire” which relates the remarkable career of local re ghter Chas McGill told is now available from the Herald o ce, Blissful Gi s in Pylewell Precinct, Hythe, Norris Gi s in Beaulieu High Street, publisher Ceratopia Books on its website or direct from Alan and Chas themselves at awt1950@sky.com priced £9.95. Chas only ever wanted to be a reman. As a ten year old boy he would give the Hythe remen responding to the siren alerting them to an incident, a good run for their money in getting to the re station rst. Chas loved to watch the big red machines race from the station. Chas and Alan Chas – A Lifetime Fighting Fire