3rd October 2024 • The HERALD • Page 31 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES v GUTTERS CLEANED AND REPAIRED • FASCIAS • SOFFITS • GUTTERING • ROOF CLEANING • CONSERVATORIES • ROOFS • GUTTER REPAIRS MM INSTALLATIONS Double Glazing Repairs • Locks • Handles • Hinges • Glass • Fascias • Soffits • Guttering • Velux Glass Replacement Over 25 years experience Tel: 07787 878228 Email: mminstallations515@gmail.com Put Your Repairs in Safe Hands ABOUT US Our roofers are the best in the business and are ready to give your roof a full and completely FREE inspection Memories of Barry A Peckham R.O.I. S.E.A. R.S.M.A. 1945 – 2024 by Alan Langford has been accepted by a trio of notable societies as a skilled and respected full member. He will be sorely missed by all who enjoyed his company and all those that admired his art. He leaves his devoted wife Sarah and his much beloved three daughters, Rachel, Rosalind and Leah. His funeral was held at Colbury Church on Friday 27th September. I rst met Barry back in the early 1980’s in his framing shop in Rumbridge Street Totton. I presented him with a number of sepia prints of Eling Tide Mill and Barry agreed to sell them at a low commission rate displayed in his premises. us began a friendship that has lasted for forty five years. Following my redundancy from my job working as an illustrator for Etchmasters of Alresford, he suggested I try my luck as a landscape painter, accompanying him on his regular visits to the New Forest. It was a thoroughly enlightening experience; I was intoxicated from the start, and shared with him the euphoria of working in oils on location in the expanses and woodlands of our native region. I particularly recall while we were working at Longwater near a stand of beech trees that grew atop a heather covered tumuli, looking back at him. I had nished the painting I had been working on and was carrying my canvas, easel, paints etc back to my car. Barry was still engaged in his subject, standing before his easel, brush in hand staring at the mighty beeches that stretched their branches against the azure sky. I immediately thought how absolutely perfect the scene was. Here was a man deeply immersed in practicing his skills, poised con dently before his subject that for the present represented everything in the world that interested him. If any scene could represent an artist’s desire to depict his love of the region that had absorbed him from childhood, then I thought, this is it. He was as an appropriate feature in the landscape as the grazing cattle, ponies and deer that populate this wild and windswept region of Hampshire. Since then Barry has pursued a very successful career, and Ashurst Wood by Barry A Peckham, oil on canvas Waterside Christmas Fire Engine Will Be Coming Soon! But We Need Your Help! from Waterside Christmas Fire Engine We are busy getting ready for the Christmas Season and we need reliable people to help guide our large re engine through the streets of the Waterside in December from 5pm till 9pm. If you feel you have what it takes to assist in guiding the engine for one evening or more in December then please contact Pat on: waterside reengine@gmail.com. Full training will be given. Can you help to guide the Waterside Christmas Fire Engine? WE NEED YOUR HELP… by Carol Ibbotson On Saturday 19th October from 2pm to 4pm, the Good Shepherd Church, Roewood Road, Holbury will once again be bustling with activity as shoe boxes are packed with a variety of gi s, to be sent to disadvantaged children in Moldova, in time for Christmas. ‘Love in a Box’ is organised by the Mustard Seed Relief Missions charity. We would like to ll as many boxes as possible, but we will need lots of help. Items that can go in the shoeboxes are: • Small toys and games – no war-related or battery operated items • Teddies and dolls • Toiletries –no liquids or glass containers • Hair accessories and jewellery • Hats, scarves and gloves - but no socks or other clothes • Picture books – but not stories, as few can read English • Stationery • Wrapped sweets If you have any items to donate, or would like more information about Love in a Box, please contact me for further details. All are welcome to come along and help on the day – it’s great fun! Please help if you can - thank you, Carol 023 8089 1488.
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