Page 12 • The HERALD • 20th June 2024 v EMAIL YOUR NEWS: editor@herald-publishing.co.uk v • Re-Skimming • Rendering • Coving • Dry Lining • Tacking • Artex Covered • Floor Screeding www.tbrownplastering.co.uk Call: 07919 183989 Friendly • Reliable • Professional • Free Estimates Kitchen & Bathroom Showroom with free design service Tel: 023 8084 3787 Email: showroom@pcbuildingsupplies.co.uk Web: www.pcbuildingsupplies.co.uk • Consumer Unit Replacements • Full / partial Rewires • Summerhouse Supplies • New Circuits Installed • Extensions & New Builds • Fault finding Contact Mike on: 023 8048 0818 07796 710581 mctelectrical74@gmail.com For all your electrical needs AUSTIN WINDOW CLEANING Professional Window Cleaning Service established 25 years From £18 per house Tel: 07733 205341 www.austinwindowcleaning.co.uk Send your local news to The Editor, The Herald, 2 High Street, Hythe SO45 6AH or email: editor@herald-publishing.co.uk Nostalgic Streets Ahead Opened at the National Motor Museum e National Motor Museum at Beaulieu opened its new permanent exhibition, Streets Ahead, over the May Bank Holiday weekend with actors from the Gobbledegook theatre company on a re-created street taking on character roles you may have encountered from the decades following the Second World War. As part of the opening weekend celebration, visitors enjoyed meeting a tra c warden, milkman, a bus conductor, and a motor salesman spiv. Younger visitors were intrigued to hear stories from the era – including wider opportunities for travel, changing tastes of fashion, the ght for equal pay, whilst those old enough to remember reminisced about the car and motorcycles on the street. e new gallery Streets Ahead: Motoring in MidCentury Britain displays artefacts from the Museum’s extensive motoring collections in shop fronts on the street; a toy shop with treasured playthings such as Corgi toys and Scalextric, a motoring clothing shop boasting sensible or fashionable outerwear and accessories, a travel agent that brought holidays abroad as well as UK trips and excursions to the masses for the rst time. A mobile hardware store is also parked up showing a form of shopping when roads and perhaps lives were less busy. Museum Chief Executive, Jon Murden says: “The re-development of this section of the Museum into Streets Ahead is a wonderful addition to our displays. It is an opportune moment to look back, at a time when the high-street is experiencing yet another revolution in shopping habits.” National Motor Museum Senior Curator, Gail StewartBye says: “The decades following the Second World War saw full employment, a growing population, greater affluence, the emergence of the ‘teenager’ as a distinct sector of society, and an explosion in the affordability and availability of consumer goods, all of which fuelled a booming economy”. Gail says that motoring was central to this transformation: “Cars and motorcycles became accessible to more people than ever before. Mass motor vehicle ownership, and the freedom for everyone to travel was part of the shared experience of post-war life. Through travel, fashion, in entertainment, and whilst growing up, motoring became a significant part of popular culture.” e exhibition is included in the admission ticket for the Beaulieu attraction, and further details are available from: www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk Streets Ahead Opening Weekend Actors Opposite Ends Art Exhibition takes place at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey until 27th June, 10am to 5pm daily (exhibition closes 3pm on the last day). Exciting new work by Jo Elswood (abstracts, mixed media, textiles) and Christina Hart-Davies (botanical watercolours, illustrations, drawings), celebrating the natural world from opposite ends of the artistic spectrum. OPPOSITE ENDS
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