v SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE HERALD v 25th August 2022 • The HERALD • Page 5 DECORATOR INTERIOR & EXTERIOR PAINTING General Small Maintenance Works Reliable, Prompt with a High Standard of Work Fully Insured • Free Estimates NICK CROUCHER 023 8084 8154 or 07594 582194 MP Guttering & Roofing Services • Fascias, Guttering, Soffits, Cladding and much more PVCu work • All roof repairs, gutters, flat roofs, chimney repairs • Moss removal 15% Discount for OAP’s Established 30 years 07730 377114 023 8087 9135 mpgutteringservices@outlook.com Dibden Allotment Fund Present Cheque to HPHA When Hythe Pier Heritage Association (HPHA) sought assistance in securing funding to get the restoration of the railway track on Hythe Pier started, the trustees of the Dibden Allotment Fund responded with a grant of £10,000. Initial survey and design work is now complete allowing the li ing of existing track, conductor rail and points at the shore end of the pier to be started, probably at the beginning of September. As previously reported in the Herald a new platform will be built as a part of the project. is work is essential to preserve and extend the life of Hythe’s Guinness Record holding electric pier train which rst ran along the pier in July 1922. HPHA will continue to protect, preserve, restore and redevelop the pier, associated buildings and the unique railway for public bene t. Despite the di cult times brought about by the pandemic over the past two years, HPHA have restored the railway carriage and Anthony Smith receiving cheque from Jill Tomlin and Dan Poole of the Dibden Allotment Fund with New Forest East MP Julian Lewis in attendance (Photo: Alan Titheridge) Hythe Pier Heritage Association (HPHA) proudly put a second restored train carriage back in service on the Hythe Pier Railway just in time for its Centenary Celebration in July. e project took almost a year with the bodywork being carried out by volunteers from the Hythe Men’s Shed at the Pier and the undercarriage by engineers from Blue Funnel Ferries. Some of the original timber was able to be retained but the bodywork needed new frames, new skins and replacement glass and electrics. All of the seating and door furniture was, a er cleaning up, reused. Built by the Baguley Car Company under Drewry Cars order number 1048 (also known as carriage 1), the carriage arrived in Hythe in June 1922 at a cost of £375, entering service without ceremony towards the end of July. Next up in the HPHA restoration programme is Drewry Cars 1327 (carriage 2). is is the rst of the driving carriages that arrived in May 1923 and transported King George VI along the pier during a visit prior in D-Day in May 1944. tractor unit and has carried out urgent protection and repair work on the pier head buildings. ere is still much to do, with the volunteers working tirelessly to secure the necessary funding. Donations can be made at: hythepier.org.uk/donate Second Restored Carriage Back on Track – Up Next the Carriage that Carried a King Restored Carriage 1 (Photo: Anthony Smith)
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