• The first of our aims was achieved when the Waterside Heritage Centre was opened in June 2002. The Old Railway Station building in Hythe has been fully refurbished and laid out with a large Study/Library Area, a Reception/Exhibition Area, a Copying/Conservation/Preparation Room, two Archive Stores and other essential rooms . It is working well and the Centre is open to the public on Tuesday, Thu
rsday and Saturday mornings and at other times for groups and individuals to work on research.
• Our second aim is being met through the use of the Heritage Centre, the provision of exhibitions in various venues throughout the Waterside and by reacting to the needs of local schools by direct visits or through receiving students at the Heritage Centre.
• Our third aim of publishing is currently being actively progressed. A new series of four books is being written about the three parishes. Each book will consist of 148 pages with a balanced mix of text and photographs. The history and development of each area and community will be covered using the roads as a progressive means. The first; Fawley and the Southern Waterside by Clare Murley and Graham Parkes, was published in September 2010. The next book, Hythe, A Waterside Village by Graham Parkes was published in December 2017 whilst the book on Dibden and Dibden Purlieu is progressing well. Marchwood, however, has a little further to go before the writing can start. We do not currently have an author and what is proposed is that the research and writing on various aspects and areas of Marchwood are undertaken by different people and converted into the volume on Marchwood by an editorial team. Smaller publications on individual subjects, properties and people are also being actively worked on. The first two, on All Saints' Church Dibden and All Saints' Church Fawley are published and available from the relevant churches and the Heritage Centre. The next one on Calshot Castle and Spit leading up to and during the First World War is now in preparation
